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Embroidery for the homeland

Don Gaetano Chierici, three institutes of young girls, a war hero.

Civic Museum - Via Spallanzani, 1 - 42121 Reggio Emilia

Phone: 0039.0522.456477; e-mail: musei@municipio.re.it

 

Special section dedicated to Gaetano Chierici.

He made embroider the national flag separately cloth by cloth (white, red and green) in three different institutes of young girls of which he was spiritual assistant, so as to hide the combination of the three colours until the end of the work.