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    • HISTORY >
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    • PHOTOS
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  • THE NEIGHBORHOOD
    • ST. LEO'S >
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        • be a festival vendor
        • volunteer
        • corporate sponsorships
        • Why we honor St. Anthony
        • History of St. Gabriele festival
      • RAVIOLI DINNERS >
        • Ravioli & meatball-making sessions
      • EASTER
      • MOTHER'S DAY
      • ST JOSEPH TABLE
      • Daughters of Isabella
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receive LITTLE ITALY EVENT INFO
Columbus Piazza
(corner of President Street & Eastern Avenue
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This monument to Christopher Columbus is carved in Italian Carrara marble and was dedicated on October 8, 1984 by former Mayor of Baltimore William Donald Schaefer and President Ronald Reagan. It depicts the discoverer facing east along Eastern Avenue into the rising sun - the direction from which the explorer's vessels arrived over 400 years ago. Each year the Italian community holds a Wreath-laying ceremony in Columbus Piazza before it hosts the Columbus Day Parade, in existence for over 127 years.

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NEW FOR 2019!
An Italian Heritage Festival will take the place of the traditional parade.
See Oct 6, 2019 festivities / View the festival flier.


  • Critics of Columbus Day get history wrong, scholar says >>>
  • History in the Unmaking: In Defense of Christopher Columbus >>> by Sophia Dort [Italian America Magazine/summer 2019]
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On the base appear bas relief carvings showing the Nina, the Pinta, and the Santa Maria, the explorer's birthplace
of Genoa, as well as the landing and meeting with the Indians of the new land.

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THE NINA
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SANTA MARIA
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THE PINTA
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President Ronald Reagan (to right of mini statue) visited Baltimore's Little Italy to dedicate the Christopher Columbus statue in 1984.
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