5th Annual Butterfly Festival
Learn about pollinator gardens and attracting butterflies to your home. See the monarch life cycle, experience the release of monarch butterflies, and much more.
Tour Di Via Italia Bike Races
An Erie Street cycling tradition like no other!
St. Angela Merici Festival 2025
A Festival You Don’t Want To Miss! Join us for the St. Angela Merici Festival. A weekend of fun in the historic Via Italia neighbourhood on Erie Street in Windsor, Ontario! For more information: stangelamerici.ca
Carrousel of Nations, Italian Village
Join us in Via Italia on June 20, 21 and 22nd for another amazing Carrousel of Nations celebrating the Italian culture that Erie Street is known for. Featuring outdoor food, music, dancing and entertainment, as well as our local restaurants' patios.
Carrousel of Nations, Italian Village
Join us in Via Italia on June 20, 21 and 22nd for another amazing Carrousel of Nations celebrating the Italian culture that Erie Street is known for. Featuring outdoor food, music, dancing and entertainment, as well as our local restaurants' patios.
🦋 4th Annual Butterfly Festival 🦋
Thank you once again to the Monarch Butterfly Enthusiasts of Windsor-Essex and Chatham-Kent Counties for bringing all of your knowledge and efforts to help butterflies and pollinators to our Heritage Garden for the 4th Annual Butterfly Festival. It was another huge success and saw many Monarchs and other butterflies released [...]
Open Streets Windsor, East End Edition
Via Italia is thrilled to welcome Open Streets Windsor to our neighbourhood on Sunday, September 22nd from 10 am to 2 pm! With a whole new route, dubbed the "East End Edition," Open Streets will once again be an 8 km stretch, encouraging everyone to come out and participate. Starting [...]
Tour di Via Italia & St. Angela Merici Festival 2024
It was another fabulous year for the Tour di Via Italia and the St. Angela Merici festival! Both of these legacy events are always welcomed and always enjoyed thoroughly. The Tour di Via Italia bike races were once again a hit with the crowds and incredible to watch! To read [...]
Carrousel of the Nations Italian Village
Carrousel of the Nations, Italian Village, is back!
Carrousel of the Nations 2024
🎉 Twice the party within one street! 🎉 Once again, TWO Carrousels of the Nations will be held within Via Italia! For the first and second weekends, WindsorEats at 400 Erie Street East, will be home to hosting the Mexican Village. It's always a fun time with great food and [...]
Talent Show
Back by popular demand! Via Italia's Talent Show will take place once again on the Sunday of the Carrousel of Nations on Erie Street's stage. Free to enter and open to all talents! ⭐️ 1st Prize: $1000 ⭐️ 2nd Prize: $500 ⭐️ 3rd Prize: $250 For more information, contact: viaitaliatalentshow@gmail.com [...]
4th Annual Butterfly Festival
The 4th Annual Butterfly Festival is back with the Monarch Butterfly Enthusiasts of Windsor, Essex & Chatham-Kent County. The free festival will take place in the Via Italia Heritage Garden (between Marion and Langlois). Learn about pollinator gardens and attracting butterflies to your home. See the monarch life [...]
St. Angela Merici Festival
A Festival You Don’t Want To Miss! Join us for the St. Angela Merici Festival. A weekend of fun in the historic Via Italia neighbourhood on Erie Street in Windsor, Ontario! For more information: stangelamerici.ca
Tour Di Via Italia Bike Races
The Tour di Via Italia bicycle races are a treasured tradition (60 plus years) in Windsor’s original Italian community. Every year fans attend Erie Street, and recapture some of the magic of bike racing from European homelands. The competitors, of all ages and experience levels, do not disappoint. Racers [...]
Jane’s Walk – Via Italia-Erie Street & Its Italian Cultural Roots
Friday, May 3, 2024 3:30 p.m.-4:30 p.m. Hosts: Teresa Silvestri & Brandi Myles info@viaitalia.com Organization: Via Italia BIA www.viaitalia.com; www.facebook.com/viaitaliayqg; www.instagram.com/viaitaliayqg; www.tiktok.com/viaitaliayqg; www.threads.com/viaitaliayqg About the walk: Benvenuti in Via Italia!/Welcome to Via Italia! Join us for a walking tour of the historic Via Italia-Erie Street corridor, where we will be [...]
3rd Annual Butterfly Festival
The 3rd Annual Butterfly Festival is back with the Monarch Butterfly Enthusiasts of Windsor, Essex & Chatham-Kent County. The free festival will take place in the Via Italia Heritage Garden (between Marion and Langlois). Learn about pollinator gardens and attracting butterflies to your home. See the monarch life cycle, experience [...]
St. Angela Merici Festival
A Festival You Don't Want To Miss! Join us for the St. Angela Merici Festival. A weekend of fun in the historic Via Italia neighbourhood on Erie Street in Windsor, Ontario! For more information: stangelamerici.ca
St. Angela Merici Festival
A Festival You Don't Want To Miss! Join us for the St. Angela Merici Festival. A weekend of fun in the historic Via Italia neighbourhood on Erie Street in Windsor, Ontario! For more information: stangelamerici.ca
Tour Di Via Italia
Tour di Via Italia is back for 2023! 🚴🏻♀️🚴🚴♂️ Saturday, August 12th, 2023 in the heart of Little Italy as part of the Ontario Cup Series. Now in its 63rd year, the Tour di Via Italia is the oldest historical, international street race in Ontario. Watch racers from all over [...]
SUMMER STREET CLOSURES 2022
Via Italia will once again become a pedestrian haven on Friday, August 12th! From 5 pm - 1 am, Howard Avenue through to Parent Avenue will be closed to vehicular traffic so that our community can once again come together to stroll the street, watch live entertainment, and enjoy [...]
🇮🇹🎉 SUMMER 2022 WEEKEND STREET CLOSURES! 🎉🇮🇹
🇮🇹 SUMMER 2022 Via Italia -Erie Street will once again become a pedestrian haven on select weekends this summer, allowing business owners to bring their shops outdoors. Throughout the Via Italia neighbourhood, from Parent Avenue to Howard Avenue, restaurant and bar owners will extend their patios into the streets [...]
SUMMER STREET CLOSURES 2022
Via Italia will once again become a pedestrian haven on Saturday, July 23rd! From 5 pm - 1 am, Howard Avenue through to Parent Avenue will be closed to vehicular traffic so that our community can once again come together to stroll the street, watch live entertainment, and enjoy [...]
SUMMER STREET CLOSURES 2022
Via Italia will once again become a pedestrian haven on Friday, July 22nd! From 5 pm - 1 am, Howard Avenue through to Parent Avenue will be closed to vehicular traffic so that our community can once again come together to stroll the street, watch live entertainment, and enjoy [...]
SUMMER STREET CLOSURES 2022
Via Italia will once again become a pedestrian haven on Saturday, July 9th! From 5 pm - 1 am, Howard Avenue through to Parent Avenue will be closed to vehicular traffic so that our community can once again come together to stroll the street, watch live entertainment, and enjoy [...]
SUMMER STREET CLOSURES 2022
Via Italia will once again become a pedestrian haven on Friday, July 8th! From 5 pm - 1 am, Howard Avenue through to Parent Avenue will be closed to vehicular traffic so that our community can once again come together to stroll the street, watch live entertainment, and enjoy [...]
Curbside for Children “Walk on Erie Street” for Family Respite Services
Family Respite Services (FRS) works with 1200 families who are caring for children and youth with disabilities across Windsor/Essex. FRS works towards a community where families are strong and ALL children belong.
Via Italia merchants supply front lines of Windsor’s COVID-19 battle
Dedicated business owners in Windsor’s Via Italia have sent thousands of face masks, hospital hats and hot lunches to frontline workers battling the COVID-19 pandemic.
Electrical workers, Mezzo Ristorante feed frontline health workers in COVID-19 battle
An agreement reached Tuesday will deliver individually prepared and packaged meals to six locations, including five hospitals in Windsor, Essex County and Chatham-Kent.
Medica Pharmacy fights COVID-19 with virtual patient visits
Medica Pharmacy on Erie Street is adjusting to a new way of seeing patients in the middle of this COVID-19 pandemic. Dr Tiffany Czilli says they're now offering phone and virtual appointments at this time to stop the spread of the virus.
Via Italia—no place like Erie Street, says Saci Salon owner
As a young boy, Tony Gereige would hover near his mother’s salon chair while she styled people’s hair, handing her scissors, combs, hair blowers, whatever tool she needed. Mezzo wins Top Choice Award Goccia Cafe dripping with Italian flavour The owner of Saci Salon, who was just 12 years old at the time, didn’t think much about hanging around his [...]
Tearing it up at Shred Shop Wellness Complex
On a brisk fall morning last October, the bright sound of fitness enthusiasts powering through their workouts rolled out the open windows of the new Shred Shop Wellness Complex and onto Erie Street. Mezzo wins Top Choice Award Goccia Cafe dripping with Italian flavour The fitness centre, located across [...]
Europa Imports A Unique Family Affair
Dozens of families will file into Europa Imports over the next couple months, looking for tiny, white dresses as they prepare for Holy Communion season. This time of religious observance is particularly special for parents and children, explained shop owner Paul Governali. Mezzo wins Top Choice Award Goccia Cafe [...]
Piano passion becomes Via Italia music school
Samantha Cisilino was eight years old when she sat in front of a tiny keyboard and learned to play her first song, the classic “Heart and Soul.” Now, at age 28, she owns her own music school in the city’s Via Italia neighbourhood, where she teaches dozens of Windsor region children the instrument she’s [...]
Mezzo wins best Italian restaurant in Windsor
Mezzo Ristorante and Lounge has been named the best Italian restaurant in Windsor in this year’s Top Choice Awards. Owners Filip Rocca and Darcy King were all smiles when the news arrived last week. There were both quick to heap gratitude onto their “hard working” staff and loyal customers. “This award is truly a [...]
Goccia Cafe dripping with Italian flavour as it joins Via Italia revitalization
Luigi Mariani wanted to add even more traditional flavours to the mosaic of Windsor’s Little Italy when he started brewing coffee from his corner cafe on Erie Street last summer. He and his family visited the old country several times sourcing just the right ingredients, finding the finest equipment and learning the [...]
A teenage hobby turned thriving tattoo business
Few can say that what they did as a bored teenager led to a successful business and colourful career. Pat Giles can. Growing up in Windsor he and his friends would tattoo each other at lunchtime. Right away Giles says he was hooked.
Carrousel Of Nations
MARK YOUR CALENDARS! We have NEW Activities and Programming for 2019! Come out and enjoy the flavours, culture, and heritage of Via Italia and our community! Erie Street East will be transformed into a pedestrian village with four blocks of fun activities and programming. Catch all the musical performances, culinary [...]
Carrousel Of Nations
MARK YOUR CALENDARS! We have NEW Activities and Programming for 2019! Come out and enjoy the flavours, culture, and heritage of Via Italia and our community! Erie Street East will be transformed into a pedestrian village with four blocks of fun activities and programming. Catch all the musical performances, culinary [...]
Tour Di Via Italia 2019
A WEEKEND OF RACING! Join us on Labour Day weekend for the annual Tour di Via Italia. Race scheduled will be announced soon.
Carrousel Of Nations
MARK YOUR CALENDARS! We have NEW Activities and Programming for 2019! Come out and enjoy the flavours, culture, and heritage of Via Italia and our community! Erie Street East will be transformed into a pedestrian village with four blocks of fun activities and programming. Catch all the musical performances, culinary [...]
Stroll Windsor – Via Italia
Stroll Windsor is a grassroots, community initiative that supports, celebrates, and promotes meaningful pedestrian experiences and interactions in our urban villages, to foster the tradition of strolling among Windsor’s residents and visitors, and encourage people to discover (or re-discover) the city’s diverse neighbourhoods and local businesses.
Eat Your City Restaurant Week – Enzo’s
Enzo’s Trattoria Enzo’s passion and commitment to excellence is exemplified in every dish he presents. Fresh ingredients, community involvement and hard work has propelled Enzo and his team and his restaurants to the front of the pack. “All of my restaurants thrive on using the freshest of products from local [...]
Eat Your City Restaurant Week – Mezzo’s
Mezzo Restaurant & Lounge Exquisite “Nouveau Italian” dishes with a modern touch. MEZZO's RESTAURANT WEEK MENUS $18 Lunch $28 Dinner $38 Dinner
St. Angela Merici Festival
A FESTIVAL YOU DON'T WANT TO MISS! Join us for the St. Angela Merici Festival. A weekend of fun in the historic Via Italia neighbourhood of Windsor, Ontario!
Come Experience the Carrousel of the Nations
The Carrousel of Nations bring together the flavors of various cultures through fine food, music and warm hospitality. It is one of Windsor's largest celebrations.
Welcome to Our New Via Italia Website
On behalf of Via Italia, we welcome you to our newly redesigned website! So, take out a few minutes to have a look around our new site and let us know what you think.
Carrousel Of Nations
Via Italia Village Erie St. between Howard & Parent in Windsor. Ontario. Friday June 22nd 5 pm – 1 am Saturday June 23rd 5 pm – 1 am Sunday June 24th 1 pm – 11 pm Come and enjoy the flavours of Italy on Via Italia – Erie St. East. [...]
Carrousel Of Nations
Via Italia Village Erie St. between Howard & Parent in Windsor. Ontario. Friday June 22nd 5 pm – 1 am Saturday June 23rd 5 pm – 1 am Sunday June 24th 1 pm – 11 pm Come and enjoy the flavours of Italy on Via Italia – Erie St. East. [...]
Tour Di Via Italia 2018
A WEEKEND OF RACING! Join us on Labour Day weekend for the annual Tour di Via Italia. The weekend kicks off on Saturday with the TDVI Youth Cup Race at the Ciociaro Club circuit. Racing continues Sunday in the historic Via Italia neighbourhood of Windsor, Ontario!
Carrousel Of Nations
Via Italia Village Erie St. between Howard & Parent in Windsor. Ontario. Friday June 22nd 5 pm – 1 am Saturday June 23rd 5 pm – 1 am Sunday June 24th 1 pm – 11 pm Come and enjoy the flavours of Italy on Via Italia – Erie St. East. [...]