What is the Italian symbol with legs?
What is the Italian symbol with legs? The Triskelion, known in Sicily also as the Trinacria, is the three-legged woman that symbolises Sicily. First adopted in 1282 by the Sicilian Vespers, it is currently the official flag of the autonomous Sicilian region. Officially, the Trinacria became the Sicilian flag in 1943, during the World War II.
What is the traditional symbol of Italy?
The emblem, shaped as a Roman wreath, comprises a white five-pointed star, the Stella d'Italia (English: Star of Italy), which is the oldest national symbol of Italy, since it dates back to the Greco-Roman tradition, with a thin red border, superimposed upon a five-spoked cogwheel, standing between an olive branch to ...