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Italy’s Sal Da Vinci finished fifth at the Eurovision Song Contest 2026, held in Vienna, as Bulgaria claimed victory in a closely contested final on Saturday night.<\/p>\n
Bulgaria’s Dara dominated the final with her song Bangaranga, accumulating 516 points from professional juries and the public televote to claim the title.<\/p>\n
Israel finished second on 343 points, Romania third on 296, and Australia fourth on 287.<\/p>\n
Sal Da Vinci finished fifth for Italy with 281 points, performing\u00a0Per sempre s\u00ec<\/em>, the\u00a0winning song from the 2026 Sanremo Festival.<\/p>\n The Neapolitan singer was the 22nd act to appear on the stage on Saturday night.<\/p>\n His performance, enhanced by a bridal costume incorporating the Italian tricolour and a fireworks display, kept Italy within the top five.<\/p>\n Italy’s televote saw the public award Belgium the top 12 points for\u00a0Dancing on the ice<\/em>\u00a0by Essyla.<\/p>\n Dara, 27, is one of Bulgaria’s most prominent pop artists and is already well known to domestic audiences as a coach on\u00a0The Voice of Bulgaria<\/em>.<\/p>\n Her winning song, whose title translates as “Chaos”, marked Bulgaria\u2019s first ever victory in the Eurovision.<\/p>\n She finished 173 points ahead of Israel\u2019s Noam Bettan – the biggest ever winning margin in the contest\u2019s history.<\/p>\n This year’s Eurovision was mired by political controversy linked to Israel’s participation, which prompted five countries – Ireland, the Netherlands, Norway, Slovenia and Spain – to boycott the competition.<\/p>\n There was disappointment in the UK as its Eurovision entry –\u00a0Eins, Zwei, Drei<\/em>\u00a0by\u00a0Look Mum No Computer – came last, with just one point, from the Ukrainian jury.<\/p>\n Photo credit: Luigi Borrone \/ Shutterstock.com<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Bulgaria takes top prize, pushing Israel into second place. Italy’s Sal Da Vinci finished fifth at the Eurovision Song Contest 2026, held in Vienna, as Bulgaria claimed victory in a closely contested final on Saturday night. Bulgaria’s Dara dominated the final with her song Bangaranga, accumulating 516 points from professional juries and the public televote<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":45940,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[23745,2800,4330,29497,10294,12106],"class_list":["post-45939","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-eventi","tag-eurovision","tag-italys","tag-place","tag-sal","tag-takes","tag-vinci"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/polinex.cluster021.hosting.ovh.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45939","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/polinex.cluster021.hosting.ovh.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/polinex.cluster021.hosting.ovh.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/polinex.cluster021.hosting.ovh.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/polinex.cluster021.hosting.ovh.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45939"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/polinex.cluster021.hosting.ovh.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45939\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/polinex.cluster021.hosting.ovh.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45940"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/polinex.cluster021.hosting.ovh.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45939"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/polinex.cluster021.hosting.ovh.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45939"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/polinex.cluster021.hosting.ovh.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45939"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Winner<\/strong><\/h3>\n
Israel controversy<\/strong><\/h3>\n
Dismal result for UK<\/strong><\/h3>\n