Swiss Italian Festa - Hepburn Springs 20th - 29th APRIL 2007

About the annual Swiss/ Italian Festa

The first Swiss/Italian Festa was staged in 1993 as a community initiative. It was designed to encourage and promote an annual event that celebrated the history, culture and lifestyle of Hepburn Springs and Daylesford with an emphasis on the region's Swiss and Italian heritage.

Over a one week period the people of Hepburn Springs and Daylesford show off to their neighbours and the wider community of Victoria, their pride in the strong links to the Swiss and Italian settlers of the district in the 1850's.

The Festa also highlights the wide-ranging skills and diversity of the present community and the area’s unique environment, still closely linked to "taking the waters" at the numerous mineral springs.

This years festa will feature a varied program that offers a wide spectrum of events for the local community, descendants of the early settlers and visitors to the region.

http://www.swissitalianfesta.com/ 

Committee
President - Jenny Beacham

Swiss Italian Festa- Pix from April 28 2007 The parade arrives in Hepburn Springs, back of the Jasmine Thai restaurant. A little too loud for some!       Showing the flavours of the Swiss Italian Festa       The girls are very tall in Hepburn Springs. Must be something in the water?         Music from the old school...             and the new. And it sounded pretty dang good!                     And everyone had a good time while the rain stayed away!

If you have festa pix you'd like to share with our visitors, send them to paul@daylesford.info  thanks!

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