Sent: 07.07.2016
Received 19.07.2016
Travel time 12 days
Sender Myself from Imola, during my trip in Italy
The flag of Italy (bandiera d'Italia, often
referred to in Italian as il Tricolore; Italian: [il trikoˈloːre]) is a
tricolour featuring three equally-sized vertical pales of green, white and red,
with the green at the hoist side. Its current form has been in use since 18
June 1946 and was formally adopted on 1 January 1948.
The first entity to use the Italian tricolour
was the Cisalpine Republic in 1797, which supplanted Milan after Napoleon's
victorious army crossed Italy in 1796. The colours chosen by the Cispadane
Republic were red and white, which were the colours of the recently conquered
flag of Milan; and green, which was the colour of the uniform of the Milanese
civic guard. During this time, many small French-proxy republics of Jacobin
inspiration supplanted the ancient absolute Italian states and almost all, with
variants of colour, used flags characterised by three bands of equal size, clearly
inspired by the French model of 1790.
Some have attributed particular values to the
colours, and a common interpretation is that the green represents the country's
plains and the hills; white, the snow-capped Alps; and red, blood spilt in the
Wars of Italian Independence and Unification. A more religious interpretation
is that the green represents hope, the white represents faith, and the red
represents charity; this references the three theological virtues.
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