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Construction has begun on site at our Little Italy San Jose Cultural & Museum! Demo around the perimeter, chimney and basement is underway in preparation for the home lifting and foundation work for the "Italian Cellar" basement bar. Also got the massive antenna taken down. We saved 300 of the bricks from the chimney to be repurposed in our Little...

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January 21/ Thursday / Columbus presentation by Richard DiGiacomo / 7pm PDT. Click here to join. Organized by the Italian American Heritage Foundation. Zoom Presentation by Richard DiGiacomo, regarding his research and book, The Critics of Columbus, The Character Assassination of a Great Explorer. This is a rescheduling of his October talk. Richard...

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Little Italy San Jose has successfully launched a new Legacy Brick campaign that coincided with the groundbreaking ceremony for our Little Italy Cultural Center & Museum on November 6th. We want to thank the dozens of families who have already purchased a brick to honor their family and to support construction of our museum. These bricks will be in...

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Little Italy San Jose in collaboration with Enoteca La Storia are proud to announce our 1st Wine Club shipment in February. We chose Tuscany (Toscana) as our theme for our inaugural shipment to acknowledge the County of Santa Clara/Florence, Italy Sister County relationship. Click here to join our Wine Club that is sommelier curated and a percentag...

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This time of year the Italian American Heritage Foundation’s cultural center on Fourth Street in San Jose normally would be welcoming guests for holiday dinners, cooking lessons, talks on traditions and history plus a boutique packed with goods for gift-giving. But the center has been quiet since March, with the pandemic canceling all such indoor a...

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After year's of fundraising and getting our plans approved by the City of San Jose, Little Italy was excited to host two separate small social-distancing ceremonies to celebrate the Ground Breaking of our Italian Cultural Center & Museum.  On hand were In-Kind and monetary donors such as Mayor Liccardo and Councilmember Raul Peralez from the city o...

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October 12 2020 Roma, Italy / The United States

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After a great deal of public outcry, San Jose sent a statue of Christopher Columbus packing from its place in city hall. This year, the San Jose City Council is further distancing itself from the problematic Italian explorer by essentially giving the boot to the holiday that bears his name. On Tuesday, Mayor Sam Liccardo and the council issued a pr...

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October is Italian Heritage Month. Time to hit the road for Little Italy San Jose’s annual festival — a socially distanced curbside event this year. From 4 to 6 p.m. Oct. 18, you can enjoy the sights, sounds — and most important, flavors — of Little Italy from the safety of your car. Support the businesses in this historic district by ordering curb...

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Little Italy San Jose has accomplished so much and tried so hard for many years to beautify and redevelop this part of Downtown into an Italian Cultural District. We are excited that we have our permit to start construction on our Cultural Center & Museum, but it would be devastating to the future of Little Italy if we lose one or several of our bu...

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