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The flag of Italy (Italian: bandiera d'Italia, Italian: [banˈdjɛːra diˈtaːlja]), often referred to as The Tricolour (il Tricolore, Italian: [il trikoˈloːre]), is a flag featuring three equally sized vertical pales of green, white and red, with the green at the hoist side, as defined by Article 12 of the Constitution of the Italian Republic. [1]
The need to precisely define the colours was born from an event that happened at the Justus Lipsius building, seat of the Council of the European Union, of the European Council and of their Secretariat, when an Italian MEP, in 2002, noticed that the colours of the Italian flag were unrecognizable with red, for example, which had a shade that ...
Flag of the Cispadane Republic. The day was established by law n. 671 of 31 December 1996 with the intention of celebrating the bicentenary of the birth in Reggio nell'Emilia of the Italian flag, which officially took place, as already mentioned, on 7 January 1797 with the official adoption of the Tricolour by the Cispadana Republic, a sister republic of the French First Republic born the ...
The Italian Air Force’s aerobatic demonstration team, the Frecce Tricolori, draped the sky above Genoa in the colors of the Italian flag on May 26, as part of a five-day itinerary of flyovers to ...
Flag of the Italian ethnic minority [1] in Yugoslavia: An Italian tricolour with a red star in the center. 1992– Flag of Italians of Croatia: An Italian tricolour. 1950–1960 Flag of the Trust Territory of Somaliland: An Italian tricolour. 1946–2003 Flag of Italy: An Italian tricolour. 2003–2006 Flag of Italy: An Italian tricolour. 2006 ...
The presidential standard is one of the National symbols of Italy. The standard recalls the colors of the flag of Italy, with particular reference to the standard of the historic Italian Republic of 1802-1805; the square shape and the savoy blue border, whose use was maintained even in the Republican era, symbolize the Italian Armed Forces ...
Seven years later, the first tricolour military banner was adopted by the Lombard Legion in Milan on 11 October 1796, [5] and eight years later, the birth of the flag of Italy had its origins on 7 January 1797, when it became for the first time a national flag of an Italian sovereign State, the Cispadane Republic. [6]
Savoy blue (Italian: blu Savoia) or Savoy azure (azzurro Savoia), also known as Italian blue (blu italiano), is a shade of saturated blue between peacock blue and periwinkle, lighter than peacock blue. [1] Since the middle ages, it is the colour of the House of Savoy, the royal dynasty of the Kingdom of Italy from 1861 to 1946.