Italy began to say goodbye today to its great diva, Raffaella Carrà, who died on Monday at the age of 78. The three-day funeral began this Wednesday with the parade of his coffin through the RAI, television studies that saw her birth and increase her legend.

The country, still shocked by the unexpected news of his death, turned to the streets of Rome to honor one of its most popular artists, who with sheer self-confidence and humor delighted the world through dance songs and hit television shows. The coffin, an austere wooden box With a small bouquet of yellow roses, his favorite color, he left his home aboard a car escorted by police motorcycles, in the Vigna Clara neighborhood, on the peaceful northern outskirts of the capital.