FORMER Rangers striker Nacho Novo has been pictured celebrating the Orange Order’s Twelfth of July parades in Belfast.

The Light Blues legend posed for a string of pictures with fans at parades commemorating the Battle the Boyne in 1690and huge bonfires lit on the ‘Eleventh night’.

Tens of thousands of spectators take to the streets of Belfast every year to watch the Orange Order paradesfeaturing loyalist marching bands from around the UK.

The annual 12th of July parades mark the 326th anniversary of King William III's victory over King James II at the Battle of the Boyne in 1690.

The battle turned the tide in James’s failed bid to regain the British crown and ultimately helped to ensure Protestant ascendancy in Ireland.

The Spanish star, who also played for Raith Rovers, Dundee and Greenock Morton, was pictured alongside a swathe of fans and also holding a flag to commemorate the loss of Ulster troops in the Battle of the Somme.

The flag belonged to the Northern Ireland flute band Protestant Boy’s East Belfast.

Around 600 parades are held across Ulster every summer to mark William of Orange’s victory in the Battle of the Boyne.