Mayor de Blasio 🌠and his family arrived in Italy Sunday morning — and his teenage son, Dante, stole the show.
The 16-year-old, whose signature Afro haircut has fascinated the 💛press on both sides of the Atlantic, was an instant celebrity.
Italian photographer💜s screamed out his name when the family got out of their white Mercedes SUV to meet with Rom🌳e’s mayor, Ignazio Marino.
Marino showed the de Blasios around the an🐭cient ruins of the Forum, giving the family some time to take a few♏ pictures.
“I feel♚ like I’m in a band,” de Blasio said of all the pa෴parazzi.
He and Marino held a joint press conference in the museum, where de Blaౠsio noted that family life is a big part of Italian culture.
“We have a lot to leaღrn from the Italians,’’ de Bꦑlasio said.
“I think time with family is crucial and precious in life, and for the last couple of years that’s been ha🃏rd to co🤪me by.
“This is an amazing moment for our family to experience this together and it’s something we’ve waited for years ওto do,” he said.
He joked that his wife, Chirlane, must have been Italian in a past life because she’s the one who chose Ita🍌lian name⛎s for their kids.
The mayor o💟f the Big Apple, praised his counterpart, saying the Eಌternal City is in good hands.
After the press conference, de Blasio told 🗹reporters he had “found a new brother’’ in Marino.
The de Blasios ended their first evening in true Roman fash𓆉ion — a big dinner with Italian relatives.
Prior to the trip, Chirlane had said she was most looking forward to the f🍌east of foods sh💧e would eat on their vacation.
One of their stops was at Piazza Navona for a gra🐟nita al caffè, an iced coffee with 🎐whipped cream.
De Blasio is sch𝔍eduled to meet the Vatican’s secretary of state on Monday.
After Rome, the family is planning on spending some time at the beaches in Capri and then Gar🉐assano, the small town where de Blasio’s maternal grandmother, Anna Briganti, lived before she emigrated to New York.
Then they’ll visit Naples before ending their tour i✱n Venice.
De Blasio postponed his tr♌ip for two days after a Staten Island man was killed during an arrest.
