Today marks the 164th anniversary of the Day of Italy’s National Unity, Constitution, Anthem and Flag. On this occasion, the President of the Italian Republic, Sergio Mattarella, laid a laurel wreath on the tomb of the Unknown Soldier at the Altar of the Fatherland in Rome and issued the following statement:
(Courtesy translation): March 17 celebrates the birth of Italy and, with it, the unity conquered at great cost with the Risorgimento, along with the reappropriation, with the Liberation struggle, of one’s identity and unity after the Nazi occupation and the institutional rupture operated with the birth, in Northern Italy, of the regime of the Social Republic.
The “Day of National Unity, the Constitution, the Anthem and the Flag,” reminds everyone of the values on which our community is founded and the aspirations that animate it for the construction of an increasingly cohesive and inclusive society that is able to look with confidence to tomorrow, on the European horizon.
The anniversary of March 17 urges the commitment of every citizen to make the Republic’s ideals of freedom and justice ever more effective, facing the challenges to make peace concrete in an international context where aggressive thrusts have prevailed, in Ukraine as in the Middle East.
