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Pic caption: * LOREN DELIGHTED WITH VENICE STREET HONOUR. Movie icon SOPHIA LOREN was recognised as one of Italy's most famous daughters on Thursday (16Jul09) - when part of a street in Venice was named in her honour.. The Sixties sex symbol already has a road named after her - thousands of miles away in Toronto, Canada - but the 74 year old Oscar winner has officially been immortalised in her native country.. Loren, the star of movies such as Two Women and Marriage Italian-Style, was chosen as the 2009 honouree for the area in the Adriatic resort of Jesolo known as the Seafront of the Stars.. And she is overjoyed at the honour: I've already left my handprint in Los Angeles, but it wasn't Italy and there weren't Italians around me.. This is very emotional for me and very important. I hope that when people cross this street they will send me a kiss: it's a street as beautiful as a cinema set. (MT/WN/MJ). . Sophia Loren honoured with a street name in Jesolo. Writing on street name reads 'Promenade of Jesolo, Sophia Loren, Italian actress most awarded in the world.'. Venice, Italy - 16.07.09