City of Milan Flag

The flag of Milan, the origins are to be dated around 930, when the archbishop of Milan Lamperto gave it to the City of Milan. The banner shows the cross of St. George, a red cross in the white field. Legend has it that the red cross in the silver field was given as a sign to the Milanese by Pope Gelasius I in the person of Alione Visconti, hypothetical master of the general field of the city army against Theodoric, king of the Ostrogoths. Another legend has it that the cross was adopted by the Milanese crusaders during the conquest of the Holy Sepulcher.

• 07/12/373
  Feast of Sant'Ambrogio, patron of Milan