Santa Barbara Vacation Rentals’ Best Kept Secrets: Popular Santa Barbara Summer Vacation Events

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May 27, 2010 – Downtown Art & Wine Tour: Eat, drink and be merry at the Downtown Art & Wine Tour. The tour offers participants an opportunity for leisurely strolling between downtown art galleries to see the latest exhibits, taste dishes from downtown restaurants and sample wines from leading Santa Barbara County vintners. This popular event is a community favorite and a complete sell-out each year! Details at: www.santabarbaradowntown.com

May 29 – May 31, 2010 – I Madonnari: Madonnari, or street painters, transform the Mission Plaza using pastels on pavement to create 150 vibrant and colorful, large scale images. Santa Barbara is proud to be the first to bring this romantic festival to the western hemisphere from our sister festival in Grazie di Curtatone, Italy. The festival benefits the Children’s Creative Project, a nonprofit arts education program of the Santa Barbara County Education Office. Admission is free. Details at: www.imadonnarifestival.com

Santa Barbara Vacation Rental’s Summer Vacation Events for June 2010:

June 23-27, 2010 – Lompoc Flower Festival: Santa Barbara’s beautiful flower show delights more than the local bees. Details at: www.flowerfestival.org

June 25, 2010 – Santa Barbara Museum of Art:

Celebrate visual geometry, contrast and texture inspired by Brett Weston
Out of the Shadow  A special performance by String Theory and KCRW’s DJ Jason Bentley
The Nude in Nature Collective Submissions,  Landscaping the Body: Botanical Couture, and Negative Spaces
Shadow Boxes
Join the night’s after-party at Coast at the Canary Hotel  for late dinner and cocktails until 11 pm!

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