Before Christmas, where she will be reunited with her parents, the King and her beloved sister, Infanta Sofia, Princess Leonor bids farewell to Galicia with plans for the most intense, gastronomic and festive weekend. With the new year, the princess will bid farewell to the Marine Naval School, which she entered as a midshipman on January 11 to embark on the Navy training ship ‘Juan Sebastian de Elcano’ and spend five months at sea.
© GTRESIt is a very intense course for the heir to the throne and before leaving her home and training center in Marin, the princess enjoyed typical Galician gastronomic traditions and midshipmen. Saturday morning, with a large group of boys his age and dressed in military uniformWent to eat at a furancho.
© OrganizationFuranchos are typical Galician establishments where the owner’s surplus homemade wine is sold between December and June. They are well known for their family and cozy atmosphere and apart from these drinks they also offer homemade tapas. The princess and her friends went to Furancho a de Caballero in O Pereiro, a parish in the municipality of Poio (Pontevedra), well known in the region.
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© Royal HouseLeonor “came as a surprise, we didn’t expect her to come,” Furacho a de Caballero owner Manuel told us. The group “had to wait for a free table,” said Malik, who emphasized that “we were very surprised that a person in this category chose our house.” “Leonor and her friends with my daughter, who is the same age, and she was very surprised by her naturalness.”
© GTRESTetila cheese, empanadas, albarino, jorza and raxo
Manuel also detailed what the princess ate: a charcuterie board, with traditional Tetila cheese, loin and ham, corn and wheat empanadas. Filled with scallops and cockles, Jorja (pork loin marinated with paprika, garlic and oregano), raxo (pork cut into small cubes and fried until golden), Galician-style ears and house-made Albariño wine.
© GTRESManuel and his family wanted Leonor to enjoy the meal closely “although there were more people in Furancho, who were shocked to see her, all secrets were kept and she behaved completely normal, she even looked Galician!”
Great party of Leonor and her companions
After this meal, a very important party awaited the princess on Saturday night: the traditional Dance of the Hundred, With which the first class of midshipmen from the Naval School of the Marines, including Leonor, bid farewell before enlisting aboard a Navy training ship for the next cruise. The event takes place one hundred days before the start of navigation, but this year it has been postponed after the severe flooding of DANA.
The evening starts with some fireworks dress code It is a dress uniform for midshipmen (Leonor wore it with pants, although she could have opted for a skirt), a tuxedo for men, and a long dress for women. Total, as reported Voice of Galicia, Between 1,500 and 2,000 people attended, as midshipmen could invite their partners, family or friends.
© armadaespThe princess, according to the local press, “was someone else” at the party, seen fully integrated with her companions whom she hugged, laughed with and sang to. Naval Academy students hosted the event which included snacks, drinks and music. According to lto the Voice of Galiciasong from Quevedo, Maluma, Karol G or Taylor Swift. To enjoy the party, the princess’s security team did not allow the participants to take pictures with her, but they greeted everyone who approached her. Dusk followed by morning till dawn.
Leonor, along with 75 other midshipmen, will sail the ‘Elcano’ from Cádiz to Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria on January 11, and from there the ship will sail across the Atlantic to the Americas. The next port will be Salvador de Bahia (Brazil), then Montevideo (Uruguay), Punta Arenas (Chile), Valparaiso (Chile), Callao (Peru), Panama City (Panama), Cartagena de Indias (Colombia), Santa Marta. (Colombia), Santo Domingo (Dominican Republic) and New York (USA). From the Big Apple, it will make its return trip, where it will again dock at Gijon, Ferrol, Marin and Cadiz on July 21, 2025.
