Why are Fiorentina called La Viola?
Fiorentina's 'La Viola' nickname comes from their purple shirts — a colour as unique as the city of Florence itself.
A Colour as Unique as Florence
Fiorentina are known as La Viola — "the Purple" — and at Metaverse Football Club we find it one of football's most distinctive nicknames. The name comes from the club's purple home shirts, a colour almost no other major club in the world wears.
Founded in 1926, Fiorentina adopted purple to reflect the city of Florence, where the iris flower — the "giaggiolo" — was historically a symbol of the city. The purple became inseparable from the club's identity.
A Symbol of the Renaissance City
Fiorentina are also called the Gigliati — "the Lilies" — after the Florentine lily on the city's coat of arms. At Metaverse Football Club, we love how a single, rare colour can carry a whole city's heritage.
From the Artemio Franchi to Serie A, La Viola blooms — a story Metaverse Football Club is glad to tell.
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