The 2008 Columbus Italian Festival starts Friday and runs through Sunday.
St. John the Baptist Italian Catholic Church sponsors the event yearly. 2008 is the 29th annual Columbus Italian Festival. The event coincides with the Columbus Day Weekend, which is celebrated as Experience Columbus Days in Columbus Ohio.
Simply Italian is the theme for 2008
- live entertainment
- open-air markets
- Italian dancing
- children's area (zona bambini)
- Italian food
- pizza cook-off
- cooking demonstrations
- American-Italian Idol vocal contest
- bocce ball tournaments
- big screen TVs for sporting events (OSU etc.) bring your couch potato
- historical display on Christopher Columbus
- Columbus Italian Parade - Sunday, October 12th, 2008 @ 2pm
- Conversational Italian Instruction FREE
and more....
St. John the Baptist Church is located at 720 Hamlet St, Columbus, Ohio.
I went to the Columbus Italian Festival in 2007 for the first time in many years and had a lot of fun. The smell of the food is overpowering...
Italian Village is a nice place to visit for me.
Experience Columbus Days - Come Play in our Backyard - Columbus Ohio
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Hi Maureen... I cannot believe that "Italian food" was the 5th bullet on your list! It would have been #1 on mine. Having been to the Columbus Italian Festival I can tell you that the food was FANTASTIC!