This Tuesday’s visit of the kings Felipe VI and Letizia to Chiva (Valencia)one of the municipalities affected by the DANA on October 29, was very different from the monarchs’ first contact with ground zero. The Valencian municipality has received the kings with applause in a visit that had to be postponed on November 3 after the incidents recorded during his tour of Paiporta.
During the visit, which took place in the morning, before Felipe and Letizia also went to Letur (Castilla-La Mancha), where the cold drop left six dead, the kings did not hesitate to approach neighbors and journalists with complete naturalness.
Thus, in the first part of their journey, they stopped to talk to a girl, Candela, three years old, with whom the queen has merged in a tender hug. “Who did those braids for you?” Letizia told her tenderly while the little girl gave her a picture of the Virgin of the Castle, “so that she could protect her,” according to what her grandmother, Rosi, later told the magazine. Week.
“They have been very kind. They are human. I have wished them good luck, good health and that our virgin protects them. The king has conveyed his support to us,” the woman added in the aforementioned magazine.
Both Felipe VI and Letizia have left stopping to shake hands and talk to neighbors of the municipality stationed on the sides of the road and listening to their stories. The mayor has led the monarchs to the Chiva ravine, whose flooding caused serious damage in the municipality, leaving eight fatalities in the municipal area and where the Firefighters have had to shore up emblematic buildings such as the Mutua.