Sunday 29 April 2012, Siena, Tuscany, Italy. Standard bearers of Siena’s contrade parade their flags at the ceremony on the feast of St Catherine, the patron Saint of Siena and of all Italy. St Catherine was the daughter of a Sienese dyer, canonised in the fifteenth century

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Sunday 29 April 2012, Siena, Tuscany, Italy. Standard bearers of Siena’s contrade parade their flags at the ceremony on the feast of St Catherine, the patron Saint of Siena and of all Italy. St Catherine was the daughter of a Sienese dyer, canonised in the fifteenth century and declared Italy’s patron saint in 1939.

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Location: The Campo, Siena, Tuscany, Italy
Photo credit: © Michael Hawkridge / Alamy / Afripics
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