Italy in the Eurovision Song Contest 1993

Eurovision Song Contest 1993
Country	Italy
National selection
Selection process	Internal Selection
Selected entrant	Enrico Ruggeri
Selected song	"Sole d'Europa"
Finals performance
Final result	12th, 45 points
Italy in the Eurovision Song Contest
◄1992 • 1993 • 1997►

Italy was represented by Enrico Ruggeri, with the song '"Sole d'Europa", at the 1993 Eurovision Song Contest, which took place on 15 May in Millstreet, Ireland. The song was chosen internally by broadcaster RAI; Ruggeri was the winner of the 1993 Sanremo Music Festival, but RAI decided against sending his winning song "Mistero" to Eurovision.

Following the 1993 contest, RAI withdrew from Eurovision for the following three years. They made a brief reappearance in 1997, but then withdrew again until 2011.

At Eurovision

On the night of the final Ruggeri performed first in the running order, preceding Turkey, the second time in five years that the Italian song opened the show. At the close of the voting "Sole d'Europa" had received 45 points (35 of which came from just four countries – Finland, Luxembourg, Malta and Portugal), placing Italy 12th of the 25 entries. The Italian jury awarded its 12 points to contest winners Ireland.

Points awarded by Italy

12 points	Ireland
10 points	Switzerland
8 points	Germany
7 points	Malta
6 points	Netherlands
5 points	Spain
4 points	Slovenia
3 points	Bosnia and Herzegovina
2 points	Greece
1 point	United Kingdom

Points awarded to Italy

Points awarded to Italy

12 points	10 points	8 points	7 points	6 points
	Portugal Luxembourg	Finland	Malta
5 points	4 points	3 points	2 points	1 point
France			Spain Netherlands	Switzerland

See also

• Italy in the Eurovision Song Contest
• Eurovision Song Contest 1993