What does the Italian flag represent?
The colors of the Italian flag are red and white, and green. The red and white are the colors of the Milan flag, and the green was the color of the uniform of the Lombard Legion. Some have attributed the colors of the flag as being that the green symbolizes the country’s plains and hills, the white symbolizes the snowy Alps, and the red symbolizes the blood spilt in the Italian Independence wars. A more religious interpretation is that the green represents hope, the white represents faith and the red represents charity. Still another popular theory is that the three colors represent an Italian dinner – red for tomatoes, green for basil, and white for mozzarella.
