Earlier this year she made a sensational appearance during RAI's broadcast of the San Remo Music Festival - a sort of Italian version of the Eurovision song contest, and very much family viewing.

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With its grand casino, fabulous weather almost year round and famous music festival, which inspired the Eurovision Song Contest, San Remo rivalled Cannes as a glamorous beach destination for starlets and millionaires in the 1950s and 1960s.

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