Carte Postale italie

Flag of Italy. The flag of Italy (Bandiera d'Italia, oreferred 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. Its current form has been in use since 19 June 1946 et ce que formally adopted on 1 Janvier 1948. Some have attributed peer valores to the colours, and a common interprétes 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 interprétous is that the green represents hope, the white represents faith, and the red represents charity; this references the three theological virtues.