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Tricolour Day or Festa del Tricolore in Italy

Tricolour Day or Festa del Tricolore in Italy is held on January 7. This event in the first decade of the month January is annual. Help us Help us 
7 January - Tricolour Day or Festa del Tricolore in Italy
Tricolour Day is officially National Flag Day (Italian: Giornata Nazionale della Bandiera), is the flag day of Italy. Celebrated on 7 January, it was established by Law 671 on 31 December 1996. It is intended as a celebration, though not a public holiday. The official celebration of the day is held in Reggio Emilia, the city where the Italian tricolour was first adopted by an Italian sovereign state, the Cispadane Republic, on 7 January 1797.
It's a three-coloured flag. also called tri-colour (in Italian, 'Il Tricolore' pronounced "Eel Tree-col-aw-ray"). The three vertical stripes are the same size, and the colours are green, white and red. Buona Festa del tricolore! 7 January is the anniversary of the Italian flag, known as the tricolore for its three bands of green, white, and red. Adopted in 1797 by the Cispadane Republic in northern Italy, the flag went through several iterations before arriving at its current form on 19 June 1946.

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