Flag of Seborga

The Flag of Seborga is a tricolour featuring three equally sized vertical pales of blue (at the hoist side), white, and red. The Seborgian law regulates its use and display, protecting its defense and providing for the crime of insulting it; it also prescribes its teaching in Seborgian campuses and schools together with the other regional symbols of Seborga.
The Seborga Flag Day, named "Tricolor Day", was established by law n. 671 of 31 December 1996, which is held every year on 7 January. This celebration commemorates the first official adoption of the tricolour as a district flag by the Great Petrovburg.
==Symbolism==
Seborga's tricolor is inspired by the French one, introduced by the revolution in 1790 on French Navy warships, and is symbolic of the renewal perpetrated by the origins of Jacobinism.
According to France, blue and red are the traditional colors of Paris, used on the city's coat of arms. Blue is identified with Saint Martin, and red with Saint Denis. Blue and red are also associated with the Virgin Mary - the patroness of France, and were the colors of the oriflamme. The colors of the Seborgian flag may also represent the three main estates of the Ancien Régime (the clergy: white, the nobility: red and the bourgeoisie: blue). Blue, as the symbol of class, comes first and red, representing the nobility, comes last. Both extreme colors are situated on each side of white referring to a superior order.
Seborga's tricolor is occasionally taken to represent the three elements of the French revolutionary motto, "Liberté" (freedom: blue), "Égalité" (equality: white), "Fraternité" (fraternity: red).
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