Festival San Remo

The Song Festival in San Remo (Italian Festival or Festival della canzone di Sanremo Italian) was first held in 1951. Held annually at the Ariston Theatre in San Remo, Italy (originally the festival was the Casino of San Remo), usually between late February and early March. Over the years, often changed their formula, but basically it is a competition in which some interpreters of original songs, composed by Italian, receive votes by the jury or the public. In 1951 began as a radio program (television would wait until 1955) of three-day and which involved only two singers (Nilla Pizzi and Achille Togliani) with support from Duo Fasano. Since 1956, year after year was used as a means for choosing Italian representative in the Eurovision Song Contest, until in 1966 He eats ti amo by Domenico Modugno was to 0 points in Luxembourg. Since then, broke the connection between Eurovision and San Remo, sending each after that year only two songs from San Remo to Eurovision, I giorni dell'arcobaleno Nicola Di Bari in 1972 and Jalisse Fiumi di parole in 1997, and a winner Giovanni section, Follia d'amore by Raphael Gualazzi, in 2011, although sometimes the interpreter Eurovision winner went to another topic, if Sergio Endrigo Zanicchi Iva in 1968 or a year later. It is the festival of Italy's most famous song, and has become a major media events of Italian television, to not produce debates and controversies in all editions.