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pageant, held on 11 June 2023, at the Grand Hotel Pianeta Maratea, in the

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. Forty-five candidates from different regions of the country competed for the title, of whom a 24-year-old Venezuelan-Italian professional model representing

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, Andrea Zanettin, was named the main winner, while a 14-year-old girl from

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, Aurora Fretta, was announced the winner of the Mascot category. The winner of the contest, Andrea Zanettin, was expected to represent the country at the international stage,

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, to be held in

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on October 25. The grand gala final of the pageant was hosted by and , and was also attended by many

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, such as Rossella Erra,

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, and Vincenzo Alighieri.

Background

Selection of contestants

The national finalists of Miss Grand Italy 2023 were chosen by the regional organizers, entitled by the central organ MUPI SRL to select their representatives, through the regional pageants. Several regional organs held multiple audition events or local contests to determine the finalists for their regional pageant. For the autonomous region of

, which made its debut in

this year, the winner of an annual regional pageant, Miss Paradisia, will automatically qualify for the national pageant of Miss Grand Italy 2023. In addition to the regional contests, the central organizer also arranged an online voting challenge to determine a challenging winner to automatically qualify for the national pageant; the challengers were divided into 13 group stages, in which the qualified applicants competed virtually for the duration of 14 to 15 days, after which the candidates with the most voting points qualified to the final challenging round and competed again to determine the final winner.

Regional pageants

Several regions hold their preliminary pageants to select their representatives for the national stage. In addition, a third-level contest (city-level) has also been observed, and the winners of such qualified for the regional contests. The following list is the regions that organized the regional pageants for Miss Grand Italy 2023.

Candidates

The following list is the candidates who have been confirmed to participate, categorized by region.

References

External links

* {{Miss Grand International titleholders, state=collapsed Grand Italy

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