Food, fashion, fun, frivolities and Ferraris will be key ingredients at this year’s Italian Festa on Sunday, March 14, which has become a family favourite.
 
The free day-long Festa celebrates La Dolce Vita – Italian for “The sweet life” – and last year attracted more than 3,000 visitors. It is staged at Sydney’s only Mediterranean-style residential village, The Waterfront at Wentworth Point (formerly Homebush Bay).

 

The Festa showcases the finest aspects of Italian lifestyle - including produce, wine, music and dance - plus a display of around 90 classic and exotic Italian-made cars and bikes, such as Ferrari, Lamborghini, Maserati, Alfa Romeo, Fiat, Lancia, Ducatti and Vespa.

 

There is something for every member of the family.

For the adults: pizza-making challenges, chocolate-making demonstrations from the on-site Chocolate Café, and a competition to find Sydney’s best barista.

For the kids: games, rides, face painting, art workshops, a jumping castle and an animal farm.

 

The Italian Festa will be held from 10am to 5pm in The Waterfront’s central piazza, which recreates the cobblestone streets of Italy, and has become a fashionable milieu for social events. The Piazza offers such an authentic Italian experience you’ll have to pinch yourself that you are still in Sydney. It has bustling restaurants, a fine food delicatessen, gelataria, day spa, boutique shops with colourful canvas awnings, a European fountain, a bocce pit, a giant chess board, and magnificent shade trees.

 

The two restaurants within The Piazza, ‘Concerto’ and ‘Cucina Visconti’, will offer mouth-watering specials during The Festa. The Waterfront Bocce Club will also be there with their BBQ trailer providing authentic Italian sausages in a roll – and a chance to test your skills at the ancient game which is a favourite in Europe.

 

“This event celebrates Italian culture and brings out the passion in all of us,” said Luciano Casmiri, who is a resident at The Waterfront and President of The Bocce Club.

 

The Festa will also mark the launch of the latest apartment building at The Waterfront, which has been evolving on the edge of Sydney Olympic Park for nine years. ‘Corsica’ will complement the Mediterranean look and European style of the 16 completed buildings at the 21-hectare village, which carry such scene-setting names as ‘Capri’, ‘Mykonos’, ‘Portofino’, ‘Bellagio’ and ‘Sorrento’. Many have their own swimming pools, resort-style courtyards and sun-bathing areas.

But it’s the community spirit, waterfront promenade and proximity to famous Bicentennial Parklands that help residents maintain their healthy, relaxed ‘La Dolce Vita’.

 

The Italian Festa at The Waterfront, 21 Bennelong Parkway, Wentworth Point, runs from 10am to 5pm on Sunday, March 14. Further information is available by contacting Luciano Casmiri on 0438 856 568, or through the web sites: www.thewaterfront.com.au, and www.thewaterfrontbocce.net

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Issued by: The Waterfront, 21 Bennelong Rd, Wentworth Point
Contact: Luciano Casmiri, Italian Festa committee member, Ph (0438) 856 568
Prepared by: Barry Hyland of PR Plus, Level 1, 272 Pacific Highway, Crows Nest 2065, Ph:  9439 9191, Mobile: 0412 354 992, Fax: 9439 9190