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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 use of the Italian tricolour was not limited to the presence of green, white and red in a cockade, the latter, having been born on 21 August 1789, heralded by seven years the first tricolour war flag, which was chosen by the Lombard Legion on 11 October 1796, [5] which is associated with the first official approval of the Italian national ...
An Italian tricolour with a trinacria in the center. 1848–1849 Flag of the Republic of San Marco: An Italian tricolour with a white canton bearing the Lion of Saint Mark. 1848–1849 Flag of the Free Cities of Menton and Roquebrune: An Italian tricolour with two hands clasping and with the inscription "Menton et Roquebrun ville libre". 1848 ...
The national colours are specified in the Constitution of Italy to be used on the Flag of Italy, a vertical tricolour flag of green, white, and red. [41] [42] It is also used on the cockade, another of the national symbols of Italy. Its use of the national colours was the antecedent for its use in the flag. [43] [44] [45]
The Flags of Napoleonic Italy were the green, white and red tricolour flags and banners in use in Italy during the Napoleonic era, which lasted from 1796 to 1814. During this period, on 7 January 1797, the green, white and red tricolour was officially adopted for the first time as a national flag by a sovereign Italian state, the Cispadane ...
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 ...
The Italian law regulates its use and display, protecting its defense and providing for the crime of insulting it; it also prescribes its teaching in Italian schools together with other national symbols of Italy. The Tricolour Day, Flag Day dedicated to the Italian flag, was established by law n. 671 of 31 December 1996, which is held every ...