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The Day at the Docks festival each April highlights Point Loma's sport fishing industry. [52] The Festa do Espirito Santo, or Feast of the Holy Spirit, is a religious festival put on by Point Loma's large Portuguese community. It has been staged annually since 1910 and is San Diego's oldest ethnic tradition. [53]
Oceanside International Film Festival in Oceanside; Open Air Book Fair Archived 2006-09-08 at the Wayback Machine in Hillcrest; Over-the-line at Fiesta Island; Parade of Lights on San Diego Bay in December; Portuguese U.P.S.E.S. Festa and Parade throughout neighborhoods of Point Loma; Precious Festa, the largest Italian festival in the Western ...
The San Diego Portuguese Community is filled with a rich history, affecting San Diego as we know it. In 1876, the earliest Portuguese community members immigrated to Point Loma San Diego, California. A blend of Portuguese immigrants moved from the mainland of Portugal, along with the Azorean and Madeira Islands, moving toward the United States.
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The Old Point Loma Lighthouse is the highest point in the park and has been a San Diego icon since 1855. The lighthouse was closed in 1891, and the New Point Loma Lighthouse opened at a lower elevation, as fog and low clouds often obscured the light at its location 129 meters (422 feet) above sea level. The old lighthouse is now a museum, and ...
The Wine, Cheese, and Chocolate Festival is back for its 11th year on Saturday, June 15, from 11 a.m. to 7:30 p.m. at the Westport Fairgrounds, 200 Pinehill Road.
The residents of Lomaland also transformed their Point Loma neighborhood by planting so many trees, orchards and shrubs that the formerly barren neighborhood is now known as the "Wooded Area". Led by Katherine Tingley, the group came to Point Loma to establish a community that would model the philosophical and humanitarian goals of Theosophy.
Legend has it that Point Loma was named after this girl. Actually the word 'Loma' in Portuguese means light.(NOTE: Mr. Lougher was mistaken about this. "Loma" is a Spanish word meaning "hill". The original name of the peninsula was "La Punta de la Loma de San Diego", meaning Hill Point of San Diego. This was later anglicized to Point Loma. [21 ...