VIDEO | Cesare Cremonini receives the silver Turrita and is moved: “Bologna is a unique place in the world”

The singer from Bologna, awarded the silver Turrita today by the mayor, was moved as he spoke about Bologna: "For me it is much more than a city"

BOLOGNA – “This is a silver Turrita for your career and for the things you have done, first of all, and it is a wish for the things you will do. Thank you for your commitment in these last few years for Bologna, for the attachment you have to the red and blue colors and obviously also for the Garisenda project, which you helped push at the beginning, together with Gianni Morandi”, in favor of the plan of restoration and stability, “with the fundraising record on Art Bonus”. With these words the mayor of Bologna, Matteo Lepore, surprisingly delivered the silver Turrita to Cesare Cremonini, a true Bolognese, today at the palace, in the Cappella Franese. The occasion is the press conference dedicated to the porticoes of San Luca, for the second edition of the festival of the same name, marked by a project signed by the former Lùnapop singer. “I’m usually the one who makes the jokes, I didn’t expect it“, replies Cremonini from the stage, very excited.

CESARE CREMONINI MOVED: “THANKS BOLOGNA”

“Every day that passes and that I spend in my city, Bologna, I am more deeply in love with it. Not only because time passes and the maturity of life takes you back to the land where you want to wake up every day.” Thus Cesare Cremonini, receiving today in the Municipality of Bologna from the hands of the mayor Matteo Lepore, in the Farnese Chapel, the citizen recognition of the silver Turrita. Excited by the surprise, at the beginning of the press conference to launch the Bologna Portici Festival with the special lights from 5 to 9 June, from dusk to dawn, Cremonini adds: “I am moved by my city, it’s something that an artist shouldn’t do, especially when he wins an award For me, Bologna is much more than a city, it’s a unique place in the world…“, adds the singer-songwriter, before getting emotional. again. But “we did it on purpose” to excite, Lepore smiles about the delivery of the Turrita.