The princess eleanorwho will turn 17 on October 31, will visit Girona for the first time this Sundayof which she also holds the title of princess, with the visit to the Dalí Museum in the Girona town of Figueres. Her sister, the Infanta Sofía, will accompany her on the tour of the center dedicated to the surrealist painter, sources from the Casa del Rey have reported.
The royal family will arrive in Figueres early on Sunday afternoon where, in addition to visiting the museum, they will previously have a working session on the new programs of the Princess of Girona Foundation and a meeting with the young people who participate in them.
The quote is framed in visit that the Kings and their daughters will make this Sunday and Monday to Cataloniaon the occasion of the delivery of the Princess of Girona Awards, to be held in Barcelona, although no meeting with the authorities is planned, as reported by Zarzuela.
Consistory’s refusal
The heiress to the throne had not come to this territory for the refusal of the Girona City Councilgoverned by the independentistas, to give up a space for the celebration of the awards ceremony of the Princess of Girona Foundation (FPdGi), so that in the The last two editions, the one in 2019, on his first official visit to Catalonia, and the one last year, were held in Barcelona.
Her visit to the museum with her sister will be without the king and queen, with whom she will be the following day at the FPdGi event at the Albéniz Palace in the Catalan capital, and in the afternoon, at the awards ceremony, which this year will take place in Agora Auditorium of the Museu de les Aigües de Agbarin the Barcelona town of Cornellà de Llobregat, in the hands of the PSC.
After the proclamation of Felipe VI in 2014, in addition to becoming Princess of Asturias, Leonor de Borbón inherited from her father the titles of Princess of Girona, Viana, Duchess of Montblanc, Countess of Cervera and Lady of Balaguer.
His first presence in Girona will be in the town of Figueres, whose mayor, Agnès Lladó, is from ERCwhich governs in coalition with the PSC, Guanyem and Canviem Figueres.
The Casa del Rey has chosen the Dalí Theatre-Museum for the first visit of the princess, managed by the Gala-Salvador Dalí Foundation, the private cultural entity whose aim is to disseminate the artistic work of the most famous Catalan painter (1904-1989) ” in the territory of the Spanish State and in that of any other state”, as indicated on its website.
painter’s legacy
In his last will, Dalí ceded all his work to the State, although the Ministry of Culture and the Generalitat signed an agreement the following year to distribute the legacy of the Empordà painter.
The 16-year-old princess and her 15-year-old sister will see some of the major works on display at the museum, opened in 1974.
They will also hold a talk with a group of young people from Catalonia and other parts of Spain who participate in the different programs organized by the FPdGi, of which the heir to the throne is honorary president.
Meeting with the winners
On Monday, the agenda of the king and queen and their daughters will open in the morning with the traditional meeting with the winners of the FPdGi in previous editions in the Palacete Albéniz, residence of the Royal Family in Barcelonaand with the meeting of the Advisory Council and the entity’s board of trustees.
The princess and the infanta will also participate in a workshop organized by the Code.org platformdedicated to promoting the teaching of informatics and computing in schools.
In the afternoon, the four will preside in Cornellà the ceremony of the five awards that the FPdGi granted annually and that in this edition, for the first time have fallen on women.
Due to the veto that maintains the acts organized by the Royal House in Catalonia, neither the president of the Generalitat, Pere Aragonès, nor any of his ‘conseller’s, is expected to be present, neither in Figueres nor in the acts of Monday.
The presence of Leonor de Borbón in Girona will be her first appearance in an official act since last April 20, when she visited an institute in Leganés (Madrid), although last Saturday she was seen with her parents and her sister at the exit of a flamenco show by the dancer and choreographer María Pagés in a theater in Madrid.
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