Patriot day
The St Gallen politician Karin Keller-Sutter and army chief André Blattmann at an information day for recruits, 2010.
(Keystone/Fabrice Coffrini)
Tennis fan at the Davis Cup quarterfinal between Switzerland and France, 2004.
(Keystone/Fabrice Coffrini)
The Blochers, Silvia and Christoph, at a rightwing Swiss People's Party meeting, 2005.
(Keystone/Andrée-Noëlle Pot)
The later women's figure skating European champion 2011, Sarah Meier, wins silver at the European championships in 2007.
(Keystone/AP Photo/Yuri Kadobnov)
Armenian President Serge Sarkisian welcomes Swiss President and Foreign Minister Micheline Calmy-Rey at an official ceremony in Yerevan, 2011.
(Keystone/AP Photo/Tigran Mehrabyan)
Rightwing skinheads on the historic Rütli meadow on Swiss National Day, August 1, 2003.
(Keystone/Steffen Schmidt)
Before the football match between Switzerland and Ireland, 2004.
(RDB/Toto Marti)
Swiss boxer Yves Studer before the European Middleweight Championship fight, 2008.
(Keystone/Peter Klaunzer)
Ottmar Hitzfeld, the Swiss national football team trainer, at a match between Austra and Switzerland, 2010.
(Keystone/Ennio Leanza)
The first verse of the anthem, part of a "survival kit" for Swiss athletes during the Olympic Games in Athens in 2004.
(RDB/Beni Soland)
Time for the national anthem.
The Swiss Psalm makes its appearance at sporting and political events and at the Swiss National Day on August 1.