Aprite le finestre

Infobox ESC entry
song = flagicon|Italy "Aprite le finestre"


caption =
year = 1956
country = Italy
artist = Franca Raimondi
as =
with =
language = Italian
languages =
composer = Virgilio Panzuti
lyricist = Pino Perotti
conductor = Gian Stellari
place = N/A
points = N/A
lyrics = [http://www.diggiloo.net/?1956it1 from Diggiloo Thrush]
clip =
next = "Amami se vuoi"
next_year = 1956
next_link = Amami se vuoi

"Aprite le finestre" (English translation: "Open The Windows") was the first Italian entry in the Eurovision Song Contest 1956 (Contest rules allowing two entries per country at this Contest only), performed in Italian by Franca Raimondi.

The song is in the "chanson" style popular in the early years of the Contest, with Raimondi singing about the joy of Spring beginning and her desire to open the windows to let the new season in. Spring is described as "a festival of love" in the lyrics.

The song was performed seventh on the night (following Luxembourg's Michèle Arnaud with Ne Crois Pas and preceding the Netherlands' Corry Brokken with Voorgoed Voorbij). Points and final placings at this Contest have never been revealed, meaning that the only statement which can be made about the song's final position was that it did not win.

It was succeeded as Italian representative at the same Contest by the country's second entry - Tonina Torrielli with "Amami se vuoi".