Symbols+Of+Italy

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=﻿Italian Flag= The project was to research an Italian symbol. I chose the Italian flag because it's one of the most important symbols. Also when you think of green, red or white you think of Italy that is why I chose the Italian flag. The flag of Italy is a tricolour featuring three equal sized vertical pales of green, white and red, with the green on the left side. It's current form has been in use since 19 June 1946 and was formally adopted 1 January 1948. The first entity to use the Italian tricolour was the Cispadane Republic in 1797, after Napoleon's victorious army crossed Italy. During this time many small republics of Jacobin inspiration supplanted the ancient absolute 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. The colours chosen by the Republic were red and white, the colours of the flag of Milan, and green, which was the colour of the uniform of the Milanese civic guard. 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. 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.