Princess Leonor and Infanta Sofía reappeared this Tuesday in Girona, on their second visit to the province from which the oldest title of Leonor, Princess of Asturias and Girona, was born. It is, however, the first time that the Heiress has set foot in the city, and she has done so during a visit to the offices of the Princess of Girona Foundation that she was born from his own initiative, as reported by Zarzuela, and of which there has been no public knowledge until it has finished.
Casa Real thus avoids any kind of public exposure of the Princess in Girona, one of the pro-independence strongholds, governed by the CUP after the May 28 elections. The Princess left a message in a book that she was waiting for in the offices, in which she assured: “My sister Sofía and I very happy know the headquarters of the foundation that I preside in the city of Girona. And we thank the entire team for their dedication and effort. With our deep affection“.
After this visit without the press, of which only the Zarzuela photographer reported, the Princess and the Infanta went to ElBulli1846, the museum that Ferran Adria opened on June 15 to reflect on gastronomy and leave a trace of one of the restaurants that revolutionized Spanish gastronomy. With the visit of the Princess and the Infanta, this tourist spot on the Girona coast receives institutional support and an unquestionable public projection. The same thing happened last year, when the young women visited the Dalí museum in Figueres. However, despite the fact that it seems that the strategy to achieve institutional normality happens because the Heiress and her sister appear at tourist attraction points, the capital has been visited without a public summons.
In the road map to return to the cities that most supported the independence process, the exhibition of the Royal Family has been avoided and in the two days that the Head of State will spend in Girona no chance of popular support or complaints. Thus, at half past three in the afternoon this Tuesday, Leonor and Sofía held a working meeting with the management team of the Princess of Girona Foundation, where they presented this year’s activity report. They did it at the Camiral hotel, in Caldas de Maravella, the same place where the Princess of Girona Awards will be delivered tomorrow, which is several kilometers from the capital and where there can be no expressions of endearment or protests against the Parliamentary Monarchy.
After that meeting, the Princess and the Infanta -one in an orange dress by Lady Pipa and the other in a red jumpsuit by Sfera- went to ElBulli, where Ferrán Adriá and the ElBulli1846 team were waiting for them. To get to the museum you have to travel an hour by road from Girona to Roses. There, the cook’s foundation makes available to the public a bus -Bullibus-, which in 15 minutes travels a winding road to Cala Montjoi, in the heart of the Cap de Creus natural park, where the 4,000 square meters of land that ElBulli 1846 occupies extend. “It’s incredible,” said the Infanta about the cape where the museum stands. For Doña Leonor, for her part, the visit seemed “very interesting”.