King celebrates 500 years of Elcano’s arrival after traveling the world

this King Felipe VI pThis Tuesday, in the waters of Sanlúcar de Barrameda (Cádiz), there is a naval magazine to commemorate the fact that 500 years ago today, the Victorian ship returned to the same place after a three-year voyage commanded by Juan Sebastián Elcano. It was the first ship in history to circumnavigate the world.

With Navy ships, including Juan Sebastián Elcano and other historic vessels, the naval parade, led by a replica of the Victoria, will mark the beginning of a program that will culminate in Seville, where his voyage ends. Juan Sebastián Elcano and 17 sailors who survived a success The first person to find that the planet is round.

“We discovered the roundness of the earth and wandered,” he wrote as soon as he arrived at Sanlúcar de Barrameda. Basque sailor already to emperor Carlos VIt is an achievement comparable to the first voyage to the Moon in human history, in a letter informing him of what is considered the greatest naval achievement in history.

To commemorate this historic milestone, events will take place from September 6-11.

After the navy break in Sanlúcar and just like 500 years agoAudaz naval operations ship and historic ships sail from Guadalquivir to SevilleBy recreating the route Elcano and his men took to officially end their journey.

The replica 8 of Nao Victoria will be received on Thursday at the Muelle de las Delicias in Seville from the Tercio de la Armada de Infantería de Marina with ten salvos and a series of honors.

A program will also be held in the presence of the king, during which a tribute will be paid to the sailors who participated in the first circumnavigation of Elcano and the world from 8-11.

this The city will offer a recreation featuring a group of actors who qualify as 18 sailors. Those returning from the expedition will imitate the arrival of Juan Sebastián de Elcano and his sailors in Seville, and then the religious procession at the Church of Santa Ana to thank them for their return to the Virgen de la Victoria and the culmination of their journey. .

The delivery of a bust of Juan Sebastián Elcano to the Permanent Representation of the European Commission in Spain for his support of a high-level meeting and commemoration project between the Foreign Ministers of Spain and Portugal is part of the planned events in Seville. , also the maritime festival V Centenario de la Vuelta al Mundo.

On the 9th there will be a light show with 250 drones on the Plaza de España, and on the 10th, the Fura dels Baus company will put the finishing touches to this commemoration with the premiere of the “Esfera Mundi” show on the Guadalquivir river. At the top of Torre del Oro.

A program to end a three-year commemoration that began on August 10, 1519, when the five Spanish ships captained by Ferdinand Magellan left the Mule Dock in Seville and commissioned Carlos I to open the ship. A route heading west towards the Spice Islands (Moluccas) and ending on September 6, 1522, when only one of them, Victoria, returned to Sanlúcar de Barrameda after her first circumnavigation of the world with 18 hungry and exhausted sailors. .

Source: Informacion

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