Death and state funeral of Giorgio Napolitano
Napolitano lying in state | |
| Date |
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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. On the following day, the Italian government announced a state funeral and proclaimed a national day of mourning for 26 September. It was attended by international figures including four incumbent presidents, one former president, and over one hundred ambassadors, and was Italy's first secular funeral for a former president. It was Italy's third state funeral in 2023 after former Prime Ministers Silvio Berlusconi's in June and Arnaldo Forlani's in July; it was also its third national mourning of the year after the death of victims of Emilia-Romagna's alluvion in May and the death of Silvio Berlusconi in June.