Editing Guard mounting (section)

===Italy===
On the occasions of the [[Flag Day|Festival of the Tricolour]] on January 7, the [[anniversary of the unification of Italy]] on March 17 and the [[Festa della Repubblica|Italian Republic Day]] on June 2, the Changing of the Guard at the [[Quirinal Palace]] is performed in its solemn form by the [[Corazzieri|Corazzieri Regiment]] and by the mounted band of the [[Carabinieri]] 4th Cavalry Regiment, with the guards wearing their ceremonial dress uniforms and riding horses.
[[File:Changing of the Guard - Corazzieri 2022 (4).jpg|thumb|Mounted [[Corazzieri]] during a guard mounting ceremony.]]
Every other day the Changing of the Guard takes place at the same hour, 18:00 during the summer and 16:00 for the rest of the year, and involves a military band from every service branch of the Italian Armed Forces and/or the State Police and other services (Vigili del Fuoco, Red Cross, and Prisons Police) only if the [[President of Italy|President]] is in the [[Quirinal Palace|Palace]]. The incoming unit marches into the internal courtyard in front of the outgoing unit, which [[Present arms (command)|presents arms]] and later again with the new guard to the tune of [[Il Canto degli Italiani]]. Then the sentinels of the outgoing unit surrender their posts to the sentinels of the incoming unit, and then the incoming unit [[Present arms (command)|presents arms]] as the outgoing unit marches out with an NCO or Warrant officer leading the old and new guard sentinels.

Similar protocols are followed every hour by the honour guards stationed at the gates of the seats of the [[Palazzo Montecitorio|Chamber of Deputies]] and the [[Palazzo Madama, Rome|Senate]], at the [[tomb of the unknown soldier]] at the [[Altare della Patria]], and at the gates of the [[Quirinal Palace]]. In these cases, a [[sub-officer]] leads the incoming unit in front of the standing guards, and leads the outgoing unit after they have surrendered their posts. Units forming for the regular mounting in various parts of Rome come from, aside from servicemen from the Carabineri, various units of the Italian Army, Navy, Air Force and the Financial Guard, and even the Italian State Police, and their respective bands provide the musical accompaniment to the Quirinal Palace ceremony.