Festa vs. Festival — What's the Difference?

A public holiday or feast day in Italy, Portugal, etc.

A festival is an event ordinarily celebrated by a community and centering on some characteristic aspect of that community and its religion or cultures. It is often marked as a local or national holiday, mela, or eid.

A day or period of celebration, typically for religious reasons

An organized series of concerts, plays, or films, typically one held annually in the same place

An occasion for feasting or celebration, especially a day or time of religious significance that recurs at regular intervals.

An often regularly recurring program of cultural performances, exhibitions, or competitions

Revelry; conviviality.

Of, relating to, or suitable for a feast or festival; festive.

Pertaining to a feast or feast day; festive. Now only as the noun used attributively.

(Bible) A feast or feast day.

An event or series of special events centred on the celebration or promotion of some theme or aspect of the community, often held at regular intervals.

In mythology, a set of celebrations in the honour of a god.

Fried cornbread.

Pertaining to a fest; festive; festal; appropriate to a festival; joyous; mirthful.

A day or period of time set aside for feasting and celebration

An organized series of acts and performances (usually in one place);