Flags of Italy

The left side is a green stripe, center is a white stripe and the right side is a red stripe. The flag of Italy is solely based on the flag of France. There are at least two accounts that explain the meanings of the colors being used in the flag. The first one is that colors of the flag of Italy are based on Milan's military uniforms. The second account suggests that Napoleon Bonaparte changed the color blue in the flag of France with green for the reason that he liked color green.

It was on June 19, 1946, the flag of Italy was officially adopted. The Italian flag in tricolor was used for the first time in 1976, it represented that the French had controlled the region in Lombardy. In 1797, Napoleon Bonaparte used this flag in his Cisalpine Republic. It was on 1848, that the King of Sardinia incorporated the coat of arms, for every area in the country which was under his control. In 1861, the Kingdom of Italy adopted the flag having the royal coat of arms this was used to signify Italy as a united country. The design of the arms was removed from the flag in 1946, right at the moment the monarch was abolished.