The princess of Asturias, Leonor, has arrived this Friday in Salvador de Bahía (Brazil) aboard Juan Sebastián Elcano on the first scale abroad of the Spanish Navy school ship. The spectacular sailboat has docked at half past eight local time, reports the royal house in a note, after staying all night anchored in the Bay of All Saints. The 19 -year -old, heiress of the Spanish crown, and his companions on this military crossing spare again on the mainland after crossing the Atlantic. The Spanish ambassador to Brazil, Mar Fernández-Palacios, has received them in the port of Salvador, the black capital of Brazil, which these days is in the countdown to celebrate the Carnival. For visitors to begin to savor local rhythms, the act has included, together with the classic military music, a Batucada Starring percussionist women from the Carlinhos Brown school, which in the city two decades ago.
He Elcano It will remain several days in Salvador, its only scale in Brazil this year. His commander, Luis Carreras-Pressa do Campo, has told the journalists present at the dock that the crossing of the ocean has been “very beautiful, thanks to the winds Alisios, which are very conducive to cross the Atlantic from Cape Verde to the coasts Brazilians We navigate in this great sailboat, with all the rigged rig, and allows the goalkeeper to reach a solid marine formation. ” The princess was among the students who has greeted those present from the roof, but since she joined the school ship the premise is that “it is a more guarina.”
Princess Leonor and the other 75 Guardamarinas of her promotion sailed from Cádiz on January 11 to undertake this journey that for six months will navigate 20,000 miles (about 37,000 kilometers) in about 155 days of sygllada. The young woman continues the wake of her grandfather, the emeritus King Juan Carlos, and her father, King Felipe VI.
During the stay, all of them will have the opportunity to know the rich culture, history and gastronomy of Salvador, which was the capital of the Portuguese colony until 1763 and one of the main ones that put the foundations of the current Brazil. The city is the capital of Bahia, the land that, Caetano Veloso, Jorge Amado or the current Minister of Culture, Margareth Menezes.
Salvador will host several public events on the occasion of the sailboat scale, which in its almost 100 years of history has arrived 63 times in Brazil. He Juan Sebastián Elcano He will take advantage of the 400th anniversary with the Brazilian Navy since a Hispanic-Portuguese troop took Salvador de los Dutridos. No such size fleet had crossed the Atlantic until then. The Embassy has organized a seminar in which Spanish and Brazilian historians will participate.
The school ship will follow route with scales in Montevideo (Uruguay), Punta Arenas and Valparaíso (Chile), Callao (Peru), Panama City, Cartagena de Indias and Santa Marta (Colombia), Santo Domingo and New York and then undertake the journey Atlantic back home.
This is the second stage that in 2024 he was at the Army Academy in Zaragoza and the next one will study at the Air Force Academy, as part of his preparation to command the Armed Forces one day as head of the State.
Together with the guards, who are formed to be the future officers of the Navy, complete the endowment of the Elcano 20 officers, 20 non -commissioned officers and a troop of 130 sailors and two civil teachers, according to information provided by the Royal House.
