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Flag of Italy
The flag of Italy (Italian: bandiera d'Italia, Italian:[banˈdjɛːradiˈtaːlja]), often referred to as The Tricolour (il Tricolore, Italian:[iltrikoˈloːre]), 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 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 Italian Flag Day named Tricolour Day was established by law n. 671 of 31 December 1996, and is held every year on 7 January. This celebration commemorates the first official adoption of the tricolour as a national flag by a sovereign Italian state, the Cispadane Republic, a Napoleonic sister republic of Revolutionary France, which took place in Reggio Emilia on 7 January 1797, on the basis of the events following the French Revolution (1789–1799) which, among its ideals, advocated
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The Gold color tone used for the lictor bundle (fascio littorio) in this flag is the same as used in Mussolinis personal flag, whose gold colour was defined by the Fascist Italian state (See Ministro dell’Aeronautica, Ufficio di Stato Maggiore (1939): Regolamento sulle Bandiere, le insegne, gli onori, le visite e le precedenze, le riviste e le parate. Rome: Istituto Poligrafico dello Stato, p. 32, Allegato No 2). In reality, however, the Gold color tone was used in many variants, brighter and darker.
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File:Flag of Italy.svgDate/Time | Thumbnail | Dimensions | User | Comment | current | 04:44, 18 May 2016 | 1,500 × 1,000 (273 bytes) | (talk | contribs) | c:User:Rillke/bigChunkedUpload.js: Requested. | 06:37, 23 November 2009 | 1,500 × 1,000 (273 bytes) | (talk | contribs) | reduce code | 00:29, 1 December 2007 | 1,500 × 1,000 (306 bytes) | (talk | contribs) | I proposed an agreement, we should stick to that. Colors back to ffffff | 03:27, 29 November 2007 | 1,500 × 1,000 (306 bytes) | (talk | contribs) | switch to colors legislated by the Italian government http://www.governo.it/Presidenza/cerimoniale/varie/dpcm_cerimoniale140406.pdf | 23:14, 9 July 2007 | 1,500 × 1,000 (306 bytes) | (talk | contribs) | Green and red changed, white is still at fffff (Italian Gov't never replied to my letters) | 06:21, 28 March 2007 | 1,500 × 1,000 (306 bytes) | (talk | contribs) | Simplified code, and did *not* change colours. | 09:58, 31 July 2006 | 1,500 × 1,000 (2 KB) | (talk | contribs) | version using "#ffffff" for the central band, for the Pantone ("#fafeff") v
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