Franca Dall'Olio

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Franca Dall'Olio
Born (1945-04-05) 5 April 1945 (age 78)
Height1.73 m (6 ft)
Beauty pageant titleholder
TitleMiss Italia 1963
Hair colorBlack [1]
Eye colorGrey [2]
Major
competition(s)
Miss Italia

Franca Dall'Olio (born in Cagliari, the capital of Sardinia, on 5 April 1945) is a former beauty queen, model and politician. She is noted for winning Miss Italia in 1963. [3]

Many years after retiring from modeling, in the 90s she became a city counsellor in her hometown for two terms and served as chairman of the City Council Committee for Culture. [4] When in 1994 fellow Sardinian Alessandra Meloni won Miss Italia, too, Dall'Olio warmly congratulated her father in the City Council, making a notable bipartisan celebration for she was sitting in the far right and he was sitting in the left.

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References

  1. "Franca Dall'Olio, l'ex consigliera che divenne Miss Italia per dispetto". L'Unione Sarda (in Italian). 1 May 2016. Retrieved 30 August 2022.
  2. Ibidem.
  3. Ibidem.
  4. Ibidem.