According to ANSA, Sophia Loren has been nominated as honorary citizen of Naples, the southern Italian city she grew up in, the city council ruled Monday on a proposal by Mayor Luigi de Magistris. The ruling cited “the feelings of friendship, esteem, gratitude, admiration and affection of the city of Naples” towards an artist who is “an authentic and absolute patrimony of Naples and our whole country”. Loren, 81, will get the citizenship at a ceremony in city hall on Saturday at 10:30. The screen legend and Oscar winner was born in Rome but was raised by her grandmother in the Naples suburb of Pozzuoli.
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