Miss Grand Italy

Miss Grand Italy or Miss Grand International Italy is a national female beauty pageant in Italy, held annually since 2019, aiming to select the country representative for Miss Grand International, which is an annual international beauty pageant promoting World Peace and against all kinds of conflicts. The pageant has been being managed by a Benevento-based event organizer MUPI SRL., chaired by Giuseppe Puzio, since its establishment.
Since the establishment of Miss Grand International, to date, Italy representatives have never won the contest. The current titleholder is Marika Nardoz of Lazio, who was crowned on 26 September 2021 at Cinecittà World in Rome, outclassing other 39 finalists.

Background

History

Before the franchise acquiring of the current Italian national director Giuseppe Puzio in 2019, Italy has ever sent its representatives to compete at the Miss Grand international three times, including Katarina Chabrecekova in 2013, Maria Grazia Murazzani in 2015, and Martina Corrias in 2016. However, all mentioned representatives have been appointed to the position by different licensees. The inaugural edition of Miss Grand Italy was held under the leadership of Puzio in Benevento on 10 September and was broadcast nationwide via the Italian Satellite television channel, Sky Italia N° 180, in which Mirea Sorrentino from Pompeii was announced the winner, outclassing 39 other finalists, and the contest has been held annually since then.
The national organizer has been franchising the regional competitions to individual agencies since their first edition in 2019, twelve regions held their regional pageants to select the national finalists for the first national edition, including Sicilia, Calabria, Basilicata, Campania, Molise, Lazio, Umbria, Marche, Trentino-Alto Adige, Veneto, Lombardia, and Sardegna. In 2020, due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the national participants was dropped to 24.

Editions

The following list is the edition detail of the Miss Grand Italy contest, since its inception in 2019.

Year	Edition	Date	Final venue	Entrants	Winner
2019	1th	10 September	Il Triclinio del Fauno, Benevento, Campania	40	Basilicata – Mirea Sorrentino
2020	2nd	11 October	Cinecittà World, Rome	24	Campania – Filomena Venuso
2021	3rd	26 September	Cinecittà World, Rome	40
2022	4th	18 September	Grand Hotel Pianeta Maratea, Maratea, Potenza	39	Apulia – Miriam Malerba
2023	5th	11 June	Grand Hotel Pianeta Maratea, Maratea, Potenza	45	Aosta Valley – Andrea Zanettin
2024	6th	1 September	Cinecittà World, Rome	39	Piedmont – Micaela Vietto
2025	7th	14 September	Cinecittà World, Rome	37

Contestant selection

Since its establishment in 2019, the national finalists' selection of the Miss Grand Italy has been operated via three systems, including:

Multiplex regional pageant system, in which the regional franchisee conduct several local pageants or casting events to determine the finalists for their regional pageants, such as the contest of Emilia-Romagna region in 2021, where the regional organizer held three small contests and one casting event in Bagnolo in Piano, Rubiera, Campogalliano, and Modena.
Simple regional pageant system, the regional pageant is held to select the national finalists with no lower pageants or casting events, the winner will be automatically qualified to the national stage.
Central direct application through the national licensee, the organization then selects two candidates a month for the national pageant, beginning from February to August, via the online challenging events.

The selection summary process is shown below:
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Regional pageants

Since 2019, several regions have organized their local contests to select representatives to compete in the Miss Grand Italy pageant, as detailed below.

Centre: 4 region-level pageants
*Miss Grand Lazio
*Miss Grand Marche
* Miss Grand Tuscany
* Miss Grand Umbria
South: 6 region-level pageants
*Miss Grand Abruzzo
*Miss Grand Apulia
*Miss Grand Basilicata
*Miss Grand Calabria
*Miss Grand Campania
*Miss Grand Molise
North-East: 4 region-level pageants
*Miss Grand Emilia-Romagna
*Miss Grand Friuli-Venezia Giulia
*Miss Grand Trentino-South Tyrol
*Miss Grand Veneto
North-West: 3 region-level pageants
*Miss Grand Liguria
*Miss Grand Lombardy
*Miss Grand Piedmont
Islands: 2 region-level pageant
*Miss Grand Sardinia
*Miss Grand Sicily
International competition

The following is a list of Italian representatives at the Miss Grand International contest.
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