Tom Morello was honored in his household’s ancestral hometown of Pratiglione, Italy, the place he was offered with honorary Italian citizenship and a key to the town.

The ceremony happened on Sunday (July 23), with Pratiglione mayor Giovanni Trucano presenting the honorary citizenship to the Rage In opposition to the Machine guitarist by the use of his Pratiglione heritage. It was Morello’s great-great-grandfather, Carlo, who left Pratiglione for america about 150 years in the past.

“I simply turned an honorary Italian citizen & acquired the important thing to the town of the Morello ancestral hometown of Pratiglione, Italy!” Morello wrote on Instagram. “Bands performed! Kids frolicked! Dozens of Morello cousins partied! The mayor wore blue! Superior guitar statue erected on the town sq. subsequent to the memorial for native partisans who died combating the Nazis! Grazie, Pratiglione!”

Earlier this 12 months, Morello collaborated with the extraordinarily standard Italian band Måneskin, including his signature axework to the only “Gossip.” Morello and Måneskin carried out the observe collectively on Jimmy Falllon again in January.

“I’m very pleased with my Italian heritage,” Morello stated in an interview with Rolling Stone concerning the Måneskin collab. “I’ve all the time felt a really robust reference to that nation.”

Under you possibly can watch a part of the ceremony for Morello in Pratiglione.