Visit Little Italy San Diego

What an interesting inner city is Little Italy San Diego. It’s a great place to visit, shop, dine or live at. Some of the nice available things at Little Italy San Diego is their fine food, bay views, art and cultural festivities.

Little Italy San Diego History

Italians, primarily from Genoa, Italy and Sicily were drawn to California by the climate and the geographical similarity to their homeland. Those who came to San Diego tended to form homogeneous communities like other immigrants did in many cities throughout the U.S. Quite a few of the earliest arrivals adopted the area around Kettner Boulevard , India, Columbia and State Streets as their new home.

The Little Italy street sign was erected in 1999, on India Street between Date and Fir
identifies the neighborhood that serves as the heart and soul of San Diego’s Italian
American community.