"The City's oldest annual event will be held on Saturday, June 3, 2023, from 11:15 am to 3 pm in the Memory Garden on Custom House Plaza, in the Memory Garden on Custom House Plaza. For the past 90 years, the Monterey History & Art Association has hosted this community fiesta to commemorate the 1770 founding of the City of Monterey when Father Junipero Serra and Captain Gaspar de Portola celebrated with a picnic overlooking the Monterey Bay and the 1931 founding of MHAA." La Merienda 2023