Mameli's hymn rings out loud at the Metro Arena in Espoo.
In Finland, on the ice of the European Championships, the history of Italian figure skating was written with an extraordinary brace in the artistic pairs competition.
Gold medal for Sara Conti and Niccolò Macii (Icelab), silver for Rebecca Ghilardi and Filippo Ambrosini (Fiamme Azzurre);
for the blue movement, which in the history of artistic couples could only boast one podium with Berton-Hotarek in Zagreb in 2013, an absolute first and enormous satisfaction on the second day of this continental review.
First after the short program, Conti and Macii maintained their leadership by achieving yet another feat of their season: two podiums in the Grand Prix stages, bronze in the final of the international circuit, the Italian title and, today, European gold.
The score of 195.13 is worth the personal best at the end of a competition in which Barbara Luoni's students brought the second free of the day on the ice at an altitude of 124.68.
Solid and lucid in their second segment of the race, able to manage the tension to reach an unprecedented goal.
And Ghilardi-Ambrosini's comeback was also superb, climbing from fifth place in the short to second step of the podium thanks to the best free practice of the day with 127.48 points, a personal best in the segment.
Just outside the top five, with a good sixth place finish on their debut as a couple on the continental scene, Lucrezia Beccari and Matteo Guarise (Fiamme Azzurre/Fiamme Oro).
The third Italian couple in the competition made a free throw of 99.25 points thanks to which they finished with 152.54 points.
Unfortunately, in the women's short, the program brought on the ice by Lara Naki Gutmann was not brilliant.
On the notes of Un Ano de Amor, the 20-year-old from Trentino from the Fiamme Oro, a pupil of Gabriele Minchio, closed the first segment of the race with a score of 55.39, less than three points from the top ten, target of the eve.
Tomorrow, on the third day of these European Championships, rhythm dance and free men.