This Sunday, December 3, the city of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, will declare December 3 as the ‘Rocky Day’, and himself Sylvester Stallone were present to celebrate the occasion.
Stallone will appear in Parkway Visitor Center to 11 a.m. for a special event celebrating his beloved boxing alter ego, Rocky Balboa. The actor will inaugurate the new Rocky Shop of the visitor center after a ceremony to make Dec. 3, the release date of the first Rocky movie, official Rocky Day.
“This day is incredible for me and for the people who have welcomed Rocky into their hearts. When I’m in Philadelphia and I walk up the stairs, it touches my soul like it did when I was a kid. “It’s a very special place in a very special city… Believe me, there is no other place like it in the world,” he commented Stallone.
When ‘Rocky’ was released 47 years ago, Stallone rose to fame and became an adopted son of Philadelphia. The film won the Oscar for best picture and spawned five sequels starring the determined boxer, as well as the recent spin-off series ‘Creed’.
Although most of the ‘Rocky’ franchise was filmed in Philadelphia, the first film featured what remains the city’s most iconic scene: Rocky running down the steps of the Philadelphia Museum of Art while performing ‘Gonna Fly Now’.
Source: La Verdad
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