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Browse feature articles on Latin festivals in New York City including: holidays, independence days, national days, and more.

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Dominican Restoration Day Commemorates “El Grito de Capotillo” That Launched the Dominican War of Restoration

Dominican Restoration Day, General Gregorio Luperón (Public Domain/Wikipedia)

August 16, 1863 🇩🇴

BRIC Celebrate Brooklyn! is BK’s Free Outdoor Summer Festival

BRIC Celebrate Brooklyn! (BRIC Arts Media)

Afropunk Black Music Festival ~ Erykah Badu, Larissa Luz 🇺🇸 🇧🇷 🇸🇩

LENA HORNE BANDSHELL, Prospect Park, Brooklyn

Assumption of Mary Commemorates the Virgin Mary’s Traditional Death

Assumption of Mary (Renáta Sedmákova/Adobe)

August 15 🇮🇹

Indian Independence Day in New York City

Indian Independence Day at the Red Fort in New Delhi (Asian Traveler/Dreamstime)

August 15, 1947 🇮🇳

India Day Parade and Food Festival Celebrates Indian Independence

India Day Parade NYC (Wirestock/Dreamstime)

MADISON AVENUE to MADISON SQUARE PARK, Murray Hill, Kips Bay, NoMad, Manhattan 🇮🇳

Ecuadorian Independence Day Celebrations in New York City Include the Ecuadorian Parade and Ecuadorian Festival

Ecuadorian Independence Day (Rui Baião/Dreamstime)

August 10, 1809 🇪🇨

Yewá, the Yoruba Orisha of the Cemetery, Dances with the Dead to Help Them Move On

Yewá in pink watches over the Old San Juan cemetery (Ajitha/Adobe)

AUGUST 11 🇧🇯 🇨🇺 🇩🇴 🇭🇹 🇵🇷 🇺🇸

National Dominican Day Parade 2024 Celebrates Merengue

National Dominican Day Parade (Sergio Reyes/New York Latin Culture Magazine)

SIXTH AVENUE, Midtown, Manhattan 🇩🇴

Afribembé Festival, by the CCCADI, Joins Harlem Week’s A Great Day in Harlem

CCCADI Afribembé Festival (Mirmoor/Dreamstime)

GENERAL GRANT NATIONAL MEMORIAL, Morningside Heights, Manhattan 🇭🇹 🇵🇷

Augustus Caesar Renamed the Month of August After Himself

Augustus Caeser statue outside the Forum in Rome, Italy (ShopArtGallerycom/Dreamstime)

AUGUST 🇮🇹

Harlem Week Celebrates Black Culture in the Home of the Harlem Renaissance Which Defined American Culture

Harlem Week (Rick/Adobe)

HARLEM, CENTRAL PARK, MORNINGSIDE HEIGHTS, Manhattan 🇺🇸

Black August is a Celebration of Freedom

Black August (Jacob Lund/Adobe)

AUGUST 🇺🇸

Pachamama is the Andean New Year Celebration of Mother Earth

Pachamama (Kwasny221/Adobe)

AUGUST 1 🇦🇷 🇨🇱 🇧🇴 🇪🇨 🇵🇪

Puerto Rico Constitution Day is a Great Time to Visit Puerto Rico

Puerto Rico Constitution Day (Dennis Van De Water/Dreamstime)

JULY 25 🇵🇷

The Feast of St James Celebrates the Patron Saint of Spain Guatemala and Loíza Aldea Puerto Rico

JULY 25 🇪🇸 🇬🇹 🇵🇷

St Christopher is the Traditional Patron Saint of Travelers

St Christopher fresco in Termeno, Italy (Gabriffaldi/Adobe)

JULY 25 🇫🇷🇮🇹🇵🇹🇷🇴🇪🇸

Aggayú Solá is the Cuban Yoruba Orisha of Flowing Forces of Nature

Aggayú Solá (Jose/Adobe)

JULY 25 🇨🇺 🇭🇹 🇵🇷

Bronx Dominican Parade es el Gran Parada Dominicana de el Bronx, Quisqueya

Bronx Dominican Parade (Jose Terrero/Dreamstime)

GRAND CONCOURSE, Concourse, Claremont, Mount Hope, The Bronx 🇩🇴

Peruvian Parade and Peruvian Festival in Paterson New Jersey is a Gran Desfile y Festival Peruano

Peruvian Parade Desfile Peruano Paterson (Luis Antonio Rosendo/Dreamstime)

PASSAIC, CLIFTON, and PATERSON New Jersey 🇵🇪

Buck Moon is the July Full Moon

Buck Moon over New York City (David M. Sacerdote/Dreamstime)

MOTHER EARTH

Festival Independencia Orgullo Colombiano Celebrates Colombian Independence in Flushing Meadows Corona Park

Festival Independencia Orgullo Colombiano (CamaraLucida1/Adobe)

FLUSHING MEADOWS CORONA PARK, Queens 🇨🇴

Bastille Day in New York City

Bastille Day (Kovalenkov Petr/Dreamstime)

FIAF Bastille Celebration, Upper East Side, Manhattan 🇫🇷
SummerStage 🇫🇷

PARIS, France 🇫🇷

Giglio Feast at Our Lady of Mount Carmel Shrine Church is an Italian Street Fair with Giglio Dancing

Giglio Feast, Our Lady of Mount Carmel Feast Williamsburg (Rebekah Burgess/Dreamstime)

SHRINE CHURCH OF OUR LADY OF MOUNT CARMEL, Williamsburg, Brooklyn 🇮🇹

L’Alliance New York Bastille Day Celebration is a Street Fair of French Culture

L'Alliance New York Bastille Day Celebration (Jose Terrero/Dreamstime)

MADISON AVENUE, Upper East Side, Manhattan 🇫🇷

Ecuadorian Parade of New York Desfile Ecuatoriano Celebrates Ecuadorian Culture

Ecuadorian Parade NYC (Burt Johnson/Dreamstime)

JACKSON HEIGHTS, Queens 🇪🇨

Festival de las Flores is New York’s Version of Medellín’s Feria de las Flores

Festival de las Flores NYC (Pepicat/Adobe)

37th AVENUE, Jackson Heights, Queens 🇨🇴

Our Lady of Chiquinquirá is the Patron Saint of Colombia

Our Lady of Chiquinquirá by Alonso de Narváez in 1562 (Basilica de Chiquinquirá, Colombia)

CHIQUINQUIRÁ, Boyacá, Colombia 🇨🇴

Argentine Independence Day is Nueve de Julio!

Argentine Independence Day Casa Rosada Buenos Aires (eskystudio/Adobe)

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina 🇦🇷

Fourth of July in New York City is U.S. Independence Day

Fourth of July in New York City (Eduard4us/Dreamstime)

PHILADELPHIA, Pennsylvania, July 4, 1776 🇺🇸

Feast of Saint John the Baptist Marks Midsummer or Midwinter

Saint John the Baptist was Leonardo Da Vinci's last painting, detail, ca 1513-1516 (Wikimedia/Louvre Museum)

JUNE 24 🇮🇹 🇵🇷

Inti Raymi is Inca New Year

Inti Raymi in Cusco, Peru (Jeff Cleveland/Dreamstime)

JUNE 24 🇵🇪

Queens Dominican Day Parade Marches Through Jackson Heights

Queens Dominican Day Parade Diablo Cojuelo (Alkiona25/Dreamstime)

JACKSON HEIGHTS, Queens 🇩🇴

Coney Island Mermaid Parade is America’s Largest Art Parade

Coney Island Mermaid Parade (Vladimir Korostyshevkly/Dreamstime)

SURF AVE & THE BOARDWALK, Coney Island, Brooklyn

Summer Solstice is the Longest Day of the Year in the Northern Hemisphere

Summer Solstice (pexels)

JUNE 20, 2024

Eleguá ~ Papa Legba ~ Elegbara ~ Eshu is the Yoruba Orisha of the Crossroads of Destiny

Eleguá watches a door in Cuba. He watches our door too. (Tupungato/Dreamstime)

Cuba, Haiti, Dominican Republic, Puerto Rico, Colombia, Venezuela, Nigeria, Benin, Togo 🇨🇺 🇭🇹 🇩🇴 🇨🇴 🇻🇪 🇳🇬 🇧🇯 🇹🇬

Father’s Day in New York City

Father's Day in New York City (Ananaline/Adobe)

THIRD JUNE SUNDAY 🇺🇸

Juneteenth Parade and Street Fair in Harlem Celebrates All American Freedom Day

Harlem Juneteenth Parade and Street Fair (Calyx22/Dreamstime)

116TH STREET, Harlem, Manhattan 🇺🇸

Portugal Day is Portugal’s National Day

Portugal Day (Raquel Pedrosa/Dreamstime)

JUNE 10, 1580 🇵🇹

Portuguese Festival and Portugal Day Parade Celebrate Dia de Portugal Newark

Portugal Day Parade in Newark (Newark City Council)

NEWARK, New Jersey, Ironbound District 🇵🇹

On Yoruba New Year “E ku odun, eku iyedun”

Yoruba New Year (Terver/Adobe)

JUNE 3 🇳🇬 🇧🇯 🇹🇬

Italian Republic Day is Italy’s National Day

Italian Republic Day (Andrii Shevchuck/Dreamstime)

JUNE 2, 1946 🇮🇹

NYC Pride Month is June!

NYC Pride Month (Mihai Andritoiu/Dreamstime)

JUNE 🏳️‍🌈

Watch Neil Tyson’s Manhattanhenge Solar Alignment 2024

Manhattanhenge on 42nd St (Mihai Andritoiu/Dreamstime)

MANHATTAN 14th, 23rd, 34th, 42nd, 57th, and 79th St

George Floyd Changed the World

George Floyd RIP (Karu Thompson/Dreamstime)

MINNEAPOLIS, Minnesota

Toussaint L’Ouverture Was an Early Haitian Revolution Leader

Toussaint L'Ouverture statue in Joux, France where he was murdered. (Pierre Jean Durieu/Dreamstime)

CAP-HAITIAN, Haiti 🇭🇹

Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month Covers a Lot

Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month (Eg004713/Dreamstime)

MAY 🇺🇸

International Workers Day or Labor Day is a National Holiday in Much of the Latin World

International Workers Day (TMLsPhotoG/Adobe)

MAY 1 🇦🇷 🇧🇴 🇧🇷 🇨🇱 🇨🇴 🇨🇷 🇨🇺 🇩🇴 🇪🇨 🇸🇻 🇵🇭 🇫🇷 🇬🇹 🇭🇹 🇭🇳 🇮🇹 🇲🇽 🇵🇦 🇵🇾 🇵🇪 🇵🇹 🇷🇴 🇪🇸 🇺🇾 🇻🇪

We Are Still Here! at the Museum of the City of New York Celebrates Lenape Culture

"We Are Still Here" Red Blanket Dancers (Max McDonald/Museum of the City of New York)

MUSEUM OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK, “El Barrio” East Harlem, Manhattan 🇺🇸

Cinco de Mayo Parade and Festival in Sunset Park is a Family Festival of Mexican Entertainment

Cinco de Mayo Parade and Festival (Angela Ostafichuk/Dreamstime)

SUNSET PARK, Sunset Park, Brooklyn 🇲🇽 🇲🇽 🇲🇽

Cinco de Mayo Parade NYC 2024 Marches Through Manhattan’s Upper West Side

Cinco de Mayo Parade NYC Manhattan (Wirestock/Dreamstime)

CENTRAL PARK WEST, Upper West Side, Manhattan 🇲🇽 🇲🇽 🇲🇽

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