![]() Napolitano lying in state | |
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Venue | Palazzo Montecitorio |
Location | Rome, Italy |
Type | State funeral |
Burial | Cimitero Acattolico, Rome |
On 22 September 2023, former Italian president Giorgio Napolitano died at the Salvator Mundi International Hospital in Rome, aged 98.[1] On the following day, the Italian government announced a state funeral and proclaimed a national day of mourning for 26 September.[2] It was attended by international figures including four incumbent presidents, one former president, and over one hundred ambassadors,[3] and was Italy's first secular funeral for a former president.[4] It was Italy's third state funeral in 2023 after former Prime Ministers Silvio Berlusconi's in June and Arnaldo Forlani’s in July.