This is the rundown of your week in Cádiz that culminates with the visit of the Kings

Princess Leonor arrives in Cádiz. Along with 75 midshipmen belonging to the 427th promotion of the General Corps and 157th Marine Infantry, Leonor will embark on the training ship Juan Sebastián Elcano this Wednesday, January 8 at 4:00 p.m.

The sequence of farewell events culminates on Saturday the 11th with the arrival of Felipe VI and Doña Letizia, who travel to Cádiz to say goodbye to their daughter. It will be a highly anticipated event with great media coverage from the dock, which is marked at 11:00 in the morning. Until that day, The princess will remain in Cádiz with a schedule that foresees Wednesday the 9th usual activities of midshipmen prior to departure from the ship; and visits to the City Hall of the city, where they will be received by the mayor, Bruno García, and to the Navy Non-Commissioned Officers School in San Fernando for Friday the 10th. The day of goodbye begins with the Church of Santo Domingo, where the students and students visit La Galeona, image of the Virgin of the Rosary, linked to the people of Cadiz and the Navy, which will be embarked on Instruction Cruise number 97.

The Sailor Salve

The Kings will preside over the farewell ceremony at the foot of the pier, which will feature the choir of the University of Cádiz and the singing of the Salve Marinera. Afterwards, the honorary salutes from Punta de San Felipe, according to the Cadiz Newspaperwhich will accompany the departure of the ship from the Cádiz dock basin.

For the heir it will be 140 days at sea. It will be a long trip, 17,000 nautical miles. It will visit 8 countries (Brazil, Uruguay, Chile, Peru, Panama, Colombia, the Dominican Republic and the United States) and 6 Spanish cities. A new stage begins for Leonor in her formative life at the Marín Naval School. A stage that his father remembers very well, with a lot of affection and attachment and with that sometimes nostalgic tone that comes and goes with the passing of the years. It was January 9, 1987. Felipe was about to turn 19 years old. On deck was his family and his grandfather, Juan de Borbón, who said goodbye with a kiss.

The third-year students of the Naval Military School will be part of the XCVII Elcano Cruise. A unique and irreplaceable experience that allows them to “share permanent and intimate contact with the sea” in an environment in which they are called to develop “their main professional tasks,” according to the Defense note. Added to this is “eminently practical on-board teaching” that contributes to “the consolidation and expansion of technical and seafaring knowledge, the acquisition of a greater degree of general culture and the assimilation of the principles, habits and virtues that constitute the soul of this profession linked to the sea”, he concludes.

The Spanish Navy schooner was built in 1927, so in two years it will celebrate a century of navigation. It has four masts and is 113 meters long. Modernized and ready for this 97th voyage, Elcano will accommodate 76 midshipmen plus the crew. Leonor will share a cabin with her fellow students.