The last farewell to Raffaella Carrà, today the procession and the funeral home

It will be a real three days to remember Raffaella Carrà, who died on July 5 at the age of 78, after an illness on which the utmost confidentiality was kept for a long time. Italy’s farewell to the queen of TV, showgirl and singer, will begin today and will end on Friday 9 July, also in Rome, with the funeral at 12 in the church of Santa Maria in Ara Coeli al Campidoglio. In his latest dispositions he asked for a simple unfinished wooden coffin and an urn to hold his ashes. Read also The funeral processionThe city and all of Italy will pay homage to her first with a funeral procession that will start today at 4 pm from the artist’s home, in via Nemea 21, and will touch all the professional places of her long career, stopping a minute for a public greeting to the artist. From the Rai Auditorium of the Foro Italico to the Rai headquarters in via Teulada 66, from the Teatro delle Vittorie in viale Mazzini 44 The mortuary The mortuary will be set up in the Campidoglio, at the Promoteca, with admission from 6pm today until midnight. The entrance will be from the Cordonata and, then, through Piazza del Campidoglio and the Vignola staircase. It will also remain open on Thursday 8 July from 8 to 12 and from 18 to midnight. The funeral In compliance with the anti-Covid measures, the funeral ceremony will be held on Friday 9 July at 12 at the church of Santa Maria in Ara Coeli, also in Piazza del Campidoglio. The long career of the queen of Italian TV Born in Bologna on June 18, 1943 as Raffaella Maria Roberta Pelloni, the dancer and singer, after her television debut in ‘Tempo di danza’ (1961) alongside Lelio Luttazzi, and in the musical comedy ‘ Scaramouche ‘(1965), in 1970 he landed in Canzonissima, becoming known to the general public. Thus it was that Carrà became the first black and white small screen showgirl. He achieved notable success in 1984 with ‘Pronto, Raffaella’, which achieved extraordinary ratings for the meridian area. Presenter of ‘Domenica in’ (1986) also for Rai, in 1987 she passed briefly to Canale 5, and then returned to Raiuno in 1991 with the transmission ‘Fantastico 12’. After a four-year interlude in Madrid, where she brought the ‘Hola Raffaella’ program for Spanish television, she returned to Italy in 1995 successfully re-proposing herself in ‘Carramba! What a surprise ‘(1995-97 and 2002), a show inspired by the British variety’ Surprise, surprise ‘, and then continued to gather acclaim by presenting’ Carramba! Che fortuna ‘(1998-2000 and 2008) and’ Secrets and… lies’ (1999), also on Raiuno. In 2001 he hosted the Sanremo Festival, in 2004 the program ‘Dreams’, while ‘Amore’ was dedicated to distance adoptions in 2006. In 2007 “Raffica Carrà” was released, a video-music collection of the numerous television themes he performed. In 2013 she returned to the small screen on Raidue as coach of the talent show ‘The Voice of Italy’ and her latest album ‘Replay’ was released. In 2015 he hosted the talent show ‘Forte forte forte’ on Raiuno and interrupted his participation in ‘The Voice of Italy’, which was resumed the following year. In 2019 is his latest program “A Telling Begins You” on Raitre.