Italy celebrates Festa della Repubblica with military parade in Rome.
Italy marks Festa della Repubblica, a national public holiday in celebration of the Italian republic, with a series of major events in Rome on Monday 2 June.
Italy’s president Sergio Mattarella will lay a wreath at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier at the Altare della Patria monument in Piazza Venezia at 09.15.
In a spectacular tradition to mark Italy’s Festa della Repubblica, the Frecce Tricolori fly in formation over the Altare della Patria in Rome, emitting plumes with the colours of the Italian flag. #2giugnopic.twitter.com/aFXXTSdjL1
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The solemn ceremony, which will be attended by Italy’s premier Giorgia Meloni, is followed with a spectacular flypast over Rome by the Frecce Tricolori jets, emitting plumes with the red, white and green colours of the Italian flag.
A large-scale military parade will take place along Via dei Fori Imperiali, and firefighters will unfurl a giant Italian tricolour at the Colosseum.
Italy’s firefighters mark Festa della Repubblica by unfurling a giant Italian tricolour at the Colosseum in Rome. #2giugno pic.twitter.com/PK29Lm5JBP
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Italy also marks Festa della Repubblica by opening state museums and archaeological sites for free on 2 June.
Why does Italy celebrate Festa della Repubblica?
The annual holiday commemorates the day in 1946 when Italians voted in favour of a republic and against the monarchy which had been discredited during world war two.
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