Leonor’s big night in Oviedo and her 17th birthday: countdown to the Princess of Asturias

Countdown to the 42nd Princess of Asturias Awards ceremony, which will take place in Oviedo on Friday, October 28. As honorary president of the foundation, Leonor He will present the awards that bear his name and will do so for the fourth time. The heiress, who debuted in 2019 on the Oventense stage of the Campoamor Theater, will once again walk the blue corridor in tribute to the Principality’s flag and will once again star in her big night. It will be her first appearance in Spain since she left for Wales, where she is studying second International Baccalaureate at the UWC Atlantic College. An edition that also coincides with her 17th birthday, which is on the 31st.

Autumn vacations at the aforementioned center begin on the same day, the 28th, according to the official calendar. If Leonor is scheduled to attend with her parents, Philip VI y Joyand his sister Sofia to the traditional concert held at the Príncipe de Asturias Auditorium the night before the ceremony, this would mean for the heiress to travel one day before the start of the holidays marked by her school. That is, she would travel on Thursday the 27th.

Leonor will also give a speech at Campoamor three days before her 17th birthday. On Saturday, October 29, the appointment of the awards is located in the parish of Cadavéu (Valdés), awarded with the Prize for the Exemplary Town of Asturias 2022. The parish, within the protected landscape of the western coast, is located 18 kilometers from Luarca, capital of the council. Its 435 neighbors support the rural school, which will be a century old next year (it dates from 1923). Tile and slate mansions, 89 hórreos, 34 bread bins, mills, fountains, laundries and bridges make up a unique photographic landscape, with a marked presence of Indian architecture due to migration to America. This will be the scenario where we see the heiress with a closer and more relaxed image. This year the princess will celebrate her 17th birthday at her home, as the October Break that marks your school concludes on November 6.