Amici House in downtown San Diego's Little Italy preserves the Craftsman-style cottage of the Giacalone family, Sicilian immigrants who joined San Diego's fishing community in 1916. Relocated from its original site near India Street to 250 W. Date Street in 2014 to make room for the Piazza della Famiglia, the house now functions as a heritage center alongside small-scale museums like the San Diego Firehouse Museum a few blocks east. The Convivio Society for Italian Humanities — a registered nonprofit — operates the house and its AMICIBAR espresso counter, hosting Italian-language courses, art exhibitions, film screenings at the adjacent Amici Park amphitheater, and community cultural events. Interior displays document Little Italy's tuna-fishing era through photographs, oral histories, and artifacts from the decades when San Diego held the title of tuna capital of the world. The cottage also serves as the Italian Honorary Consulate for San Diego, a diplomatic function that connects Little Italy's immigrant heritage to the broader maritime story told at the Maritime Museum of San Diego on the waterfront. Full-day cultural festivals combining live music, curated food vendors, historical walking tours of the neighborhood, and bilingual Italian-English programming represent Amici House's most complex community productions.