To celebrate Italy's Festa Della Repubblica (Or Republic Day to us plebs) we have put our two heads together and come up with what we think are the top 10 Italian Eurovision songs of all time. Mike chose his top 10 and Dale chose his. Like a Jury/Televote combined score... here are our votes:
10th Non ho léta - Gigliola Cinquetti (2 points)
1964 – 1st place
9th Gente di mare - Umberto Tozz and Raf ( 6 points)
1987 – 3rd place
8th Insieme 1992 (7 points)
1990 – 1st place
7th Si - Gigliola Cinquitti (7 points)
1974 – 2nd
6th Grande Amore – Il Volo (10 points)
2015 – 3rd place
5th L'essenziale - Marco Mengoni (14 points)
2013 – 7th
4th Madness of Love - Raphael Gualazzi (15 points) 2011 – 2nd
3rd Occidentali's Karma - Franceso Gabbani (16 points)
2017 – 6th
2nd Nel blu, dipinto di blu - Domenica Modugno (18 points) 1958 - 3rd
1st No Degree of Separation - Francesca Michielin (20 points)
2016 -16th