From fashionable downtown Rome to the Formula One racetrack of Monza near Milan, Italy, marked the memory of Princess Diana with a minute's silence on a weekend marked by memorial services and by the now ritual floral tribute outside the gates of the British embassy in Rome.
Just under 14 million Italians followed the live TV broadcast of her funeral, on a day when practice sessions for yesterday's Monza Grand Prix were interrupted for a minute and the huge crowd fell silent when images from the service replaced those of Formula One cars speeding round the race circuit.
In Rome, memorial services were held in the Anglican Church of All Saints both on Saturday and yesterday, while shops in fashionable Via Borgognona, just off the Spanish Steps, pulled down their shutters during the funeral. Famous Italian fashion names such as Fendi, Brighenti and, above all, Versace all closed on Saturday in memory to a woman whose status as a fashion icon made her a much loved, much admired and regular visitor to Italy.
Much of yesterday's Italian media comment inevitably concentrated on two aspects of Saturday's funeral - Earl Spencer's criticism of the royal family, and the extent to which the last week of mourning and the funeral itself highlighted profound sociological change in modern Britain.