Naples welcomes back Sal Da Vinci: the Torretta becomes an open-air Sanremo.

There's a kind of victory that doesn't just stay on stage. It takes to the streets, gathers crowds, and becomes a chorus. And today Naples proved it: Sal Da Vinci returned to his neighborhood, Torretta, and the city welcomed him as one of the family.Not with formalities, but with that warmth that tightens your stomach and gives you goosebumps.

In the afternoon of March 5, 2026, in the clearing at the foot of the headquarters of the First Municipality, Largo Torretta It turned into a party square: people arrived early, groups of friends, families, kids with their phones ready and fans who told them they were there. for over three hoursTo wait for him, and above all to sing together “Forever yes”, the song with which Sal Da Vinci won Sanremo 2026.

Returning to the roots: "This is where it all started."

The scene seems to have been written by Naples itself. Sal Da Vinci arrives in the place where he was born and raised and says it bluntly: Returning to those stairs, after so many years, is like setting foot back in your own historyHe remembers when he was very young and right there, playing football with his friends from the neighborhood. It's not a detail: it's the exact point where success stops being a trophy and becomes a collective story.

Next to him are his wife Paola Pugliese and his family. And all around is the neighborhood that saw him grow up and that today "returns" him to the world with a pride that is not vanity: it is belonging.

A raised trophy, a phrase that lights up the square

Then comes the moment that triggers the real applause, the one that's more than just noise: Sal Da Vinci shows off the trophy and says thank you. He does so with a simple yet powerful phrase because it's exactly what the crowd wants to hear: This award is not just his, it's everyone's. And in that sentence there is the reason why Naples today is not celebrating "a singer", but one of his.

Success, he says, "smells like dreams come true." But it doesn't stop at romance: it shifts its focus to the local area, to the people, to those who have supported him "always with love." This is where the atmosphere changes: it's no longer just a celebration, it's full-blown emotion.

“You didn't leave me alone”: the city as a chorus

Sal Da Vinci doesn't hide his emotion. He says he felt the neighborhood's warmth and energy reaching far away, echoing "throughout the world." It's a powerful image: Naples speaks to the world with the voice of an alleyAnd in the square, among those who sing and those who film, that feeling is real: you are not watching a show, you are watching a community that recognizes itself in a story.

The public awaits "Per sempre sì," of course. But they also await the songs that have become emotional memories: “Lipstick and coffee”, “I can't make you fall in love” and the most beloved hits. It's a repertoire that sounds different here, because it returns to its origins. And when the music starts, the Torretta seems to expand, as if it had room for everyone.

The most human confession: "I've run out of intelligent words."

There's a passage that makes it all even more true: Sal Da Vinci jokes (but not too much) that he's been talking for hours and has "run out of all the intelligent words" he has. It's a phrase that's worth more than a thousand press releases: he says happy tiredness, the one that comes when you give everything and then all you have left is gratitude.

And in fact he thanks the neighborhood in an almost "geographical" way, piece by piece: the alleys, friends' houses, the frequented corners, the walks on the seafront, Sundays on Mergellina piersIt's a list that seems like urban poetry and that says something very clear: its history is not an abstraction, it has precise directions.

The Municipality's plaque: "Roots, Sacrifice, Determination"

The institution also made the embrace official. The president of the First Municipality, Joanna Mazzone, gives Sal Da Vinci a plaque that is a message to the city: pride for an artist who carries his roots in his heart and who transformed "sacrifice and determination" into an exemplary path. The message is clear: those who never stop believing in their dreams can go far.

And today, looking at the square, that message doesn't sound rhetorical. Because the point isn't "he made it," but “he made it by remaining himself”.

Naples, when one of its own wins, it really wins

In times when everything runs and is consumed in a trend, this scene remains with us for a simple reason: it's not just a return, it's a restitutionSal Da Vinci takes home a trophy, but above all he takes home a feeling: the possibility that a dream born among alleys and stairs becomes a song capable of crossing Italy - and then coming back, where it all began, to be sung together.

And so yes: today at the Torretta it wasn't just Sanremo that was celebrated. Naples was celebrated. And that phrase, shouted like a pact and sung like a promise, became the anthem of the square: “Forever yes.”