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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.

Giussepe grebaldi, The leader of the red shirts.

Italian nationalist and patriot, who, together with Giuseppe Garibaldi, Camillo Benso di Cavour, and Victor Emmanuel II, is considered one of the "patron saints" of the Italian Risorgimento. While still in his teens Mazzini committed himself to the cause of Italian independence and unity. Forced into exile in 1831 for his revolutionary activities, he began to recruit followers and organize uprisings against the rulers of the various Italian states

High in the Alps, along the Italian / French border sit the old forts built by the King of Savoy in Italy in the 1800s. Today, the forts sit mostly untouched. It's a beautiful scene of nature mixed with construction.