Summer day in Aranjuez. The King and Queen will preside over the annual meeting of the Cervantes Institute’s board of trustees this Tuesday, October 4, at the Royal Palace of the Madrid town and the subsequent lunch that will take place in the Sala del Alabardero.
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The media have accessed the palace through the Lonja de la Plaza de Parejas. Don Felipe y Letizia They have made their arrival at the venue through the Plaza de Armas. As soon as we got out of the car, the queen greeted us. This same Tuesday we learned that the Queen is going to inaugurate the new Cervantes headquarters in Los Angeles, which will be held on December 12.
Together with the kings, they have attended Pedro SanchezPresident of the goverment; Jose Manuel Albaresforeign minister; Miquel IcetaMinister of Culture; Pillar Joy, Minister of education; Y Luis Garcia Montero, director of Cervantes. A meeting that has taken place in the anteroom, together with the Ibero-American ambassadors accredited in Spain.
During the act, Don Felipe and Doña Letizia also presented the Ñ 2022 Award to Gabriele Morelli, 85-year-old Italian philologist, researcher and editor, professor at the University of Bergamo. Morelli, a specialist in the Generation of 27 and the avant-garde, has received the bronze sculpture with the letter ñ, so emblematic of the Spanish language. A distinction that this year fulfills the second edition. After the meeting, in the gala dining room, the head of state, his wife and his employers will have lunch and a toast.
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The institution is so close to the King and Queen that the Cervantes Institute was the setting chosen by them for their eldest daughter, Leonor, to make her solo debut in an act on the Casa Real agenda. It was in March 2021, in the midst of a pandemic. At 49 Calle Alcalá in Madrid on the corner of Barquillo, the heiress starred in her first engagement without the guardianship or company of her parents.
The Cervantes Institute is a public institution created in Spain in 1991 for the promotion and teaching of the Spanish language in the world
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