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Fitchburg Chamber Visitor & Business Bureau: Festa Italia 2025
May 31 @ 11:00 am - June 1 @ 6:30 pm
Admission is $7 – Children 12 and under are FREE!
Parking is FREE with shuttles from several parking areas.
No Pets Allowed
Raffle
1st Prize: $1,500 CASH
2nd Prize: $1,000 CASH
3rd Prizes: 10 – $100 Cash prizes
Raffle tickets may be purchased for $10 each, or 3 for $25. You do not need to be present to win!
One of many legacies of the Italian Workmen’s Club will forever be the unforgettable Festa Italia. Grown and nourished from a healthy past of innocently planned picnics held at a variety of Madison locations, the celebration of their ethnicity grew into an undeniable weekend of pride today known as Madison ’s Premier Ethnic Festival.
The memories of longtime members and residents will quickly carry them back to Olin and Hoyt parks, to name just a few, but growing up in the 1940s, the place to be was at Brittingham Park in a blaze of verde, bianca, and russo, the green, white, and red of Italian flags furling where a park was accented with colored Indian blankets spread over the grass, and chairs were set up under the trees to encourage family and friends to gather throughout the day and into evening hours with picnic baskets packed with homemade food.
The Italian Workmen’s Club and Festa Italia welcome the support of businesses sponsoring this event!
To see the schedule of events, click here.
Sponsored, in part, by the following Dane Buy Local members:
   
  
   