The natural disaster that befell the Italian island of Ischia has hit home in San Pedro.
The catastrophic rains and deadly landslide that devastated parts of the island of Ischia, in Italy, on Saturday, Nov. 26, took a long-distance toll on San Pedro, the hillside port community where so many Ischians settled in years past.
In San Pedro, Funiciello said, the Italian island natives found a “little Ischia.” With a hillside rising up from the harbor dotted with homes, the Mediterranean climate and lush greenery — and the fishing, of course — San Pedro seemed like home. And so, at 6 p.m. Friday, Dec. 2, a candlelight vigil will be held in Peppertree Plaza, at Harbor Boulevard and Sixth Street. The small park recently was designated as Piazza Miramare, the cornerstone of San Pedro’s newly minted Little Italy district.
“These are still my people, though I am so far away,” Funiciello said of her own emotions, recalling how Ischians were drawn to San Pedro in decades past.As the generations grew, she said, Ischians married Croatians and Mexicans and people from all cultures who put down roots in the Harbor Area.
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