Celebration of armed forces day nov 7, 2010

the famous italian frecce tricolore as they flew over the villa borghese and the piazza del popolo

the red, white and green lingering contrails

part of the festivities which were taking place at piazza del popolo

nov 4th was the 150th anniversary of armed forces day in Italy. There were events planned for 3 days which culminated last evening just about dusk in the piazza del popolo. all the branches of the armed forces were gathered there for a ceremony and celebration. Starting off the celebration was the fly over (twice) of the 9 Italian air force planes in the famous vee shape with the trailing red, white and green Italian colors. Was quite a show since the planes were quite low and loud. Lots of pleased on lookers on a Sunday afternoon.