Sala del Tricolore

The Sala del Tricolore — Room of the Tricolour — is one of the most historically charged spaces in Italy. Housed inside the Palazzo del Comune on Piazza del Monte, it serves as the working council chamber of the municipality of Reggio Emilia, decorated with frescoes and a gallery of portraits marking the room's significance to Italian national identity.

Attached to the sala is the Museo del Tricolore, a small but absorbing collection of flags, documents, and relics tracing the history of the Italian national flag from its revolutionary origins through the Risorgimento and into the twentieth century. The room itself is open to visitors when council is not in session, and entry is free.

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A story
On 7 January 1797, the assembly of the Cispadane Republic met in this very room and voted to adopt the green, white, and red tricolour as the flag of their new state — the first official use of what would become the Italian national flag. Napoleon had just swept through northern Italy, and the cities of the Po Valley were briefly, jubilantly, imagining a unified Italy. The flag predates Italian unification by over sixty years.