Tags: flag (33 pics) The flag of Italy (bandiera d'Italia, often referred to in Italian as Il Tricolore) is a tricolour featuring three equally sized vertical pales of green, white and red, with the green at the hoist side. In its current form it has been in use since 19 Jun. 1946 (66 years ago) and was formally adopted on 1 Jan. 1948 (64 years ago). The first entity to use the Italian tricolour was the Repubblica Cispadana (Cispadane Republic) in 1797 (215 years ago), 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 (222 years ago). 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.

Navigation Previous picture Back to gallery Next picture View in fullscreen Rate this picture Click on the star to vote Download 1024x768 1152x864 - widescreen 1280x960 1440x1080 - 1080i HD 1600x1200 Use this wallpaper Set this wallpaper as homepage Comments

Users who have seen this wallpaper have also seen:

Flag of the United Kingdom

Eye

Skull Wallpaper

Moving Music

Spark

Random Miscellaneous pictures

Rings

Caution This Is Sparta

Slot Machine

Summer Cocktail

Black Cards

Request deletion of this wallpaper

Claim ownership of this picture