The Sanremo Music Festival 1986 (), officially the 36th Italian Song Festival (), was the 36th edition of the annual Sanremo Music Festival, a television song contest held at the Teatro Ariston in Sanremo, organised and broadcast by RAI. The show was hosted by Loretta Goggi, assisted by the trio Anna Pettinelli, Mauro Micheloni and Sergio Mancinelli, who at the time were the presenters of the musical show "Discoring".
The winner of the Big Artists section was Eros Ramazzotti with the song "Adesso tu", while Enrico Ruggeri won the Critics Award with the song "Rien ne va plus". Lena Biolcati won the Newcomers section with the song "Grande grande amore".
Broadcasts.
Local broadcasts.
All shows were broadcast on at 20:30 CET.
International broadcasts.
Known details on the broadcasts in each country, including the specific broadcasting stations and commentators are shown in the tables below.
Notes and references.
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