Today, the “Lancieri di Montebello”, besides carrying out an intense and constant operational activity in Italy (Operation “Safe streets”) and abroad (Lebanon, Kosovo and Iraq) with the “Reece Battalion”, it also performs daily tasks of High Historical Representation of State Ceremonials and operational with the “Horse mounted Battalion”, through its components, Ceremonial Squadron (dismounted) and Horse mounted Squadron with a Horse mounted Band.
The Horse mounted Squadron which I captured at the regiments equestrian centre, are a unique branch of the Italian Army, where men and women wear the Historic Uniform (first introduced in 1884) equipped with a lance of ash wood (introduced 1866) for main armament, which the Italian Cavalry squadrons utilised battle.