Official Visit to Brazil & Uruguay: February 22nd to March 1st, 2005

[lucys]

A few from their arrival via Getty Images.

[micas]

She don't change clothe, she and he, just take that warme jackets out. Much fresh like that.

[pdas1201]

Pics of the arrival from Brainpix

1. Felipe welcomed by Brazilian Defence Minister Jose Viegas

[micas]

Some1 now the programe? What visits they gona made, diners, etc.

[Eliza]

when the spanish royal family travel on official trips, do they travel on commerical planes, or are they like the royal family and hve a use of State own planes?

[marezdote]

Originally Posted by Eliza

when the spanish royal family travel on official trips, do they travel on commerical planes, or are they like the royal family and hve a use of State own planes?

They traveled on a private plane.

[lucys]

Originally Posted by marezdote

They traveled on a private plane.

Sort of. When the Spanish Royals fly on official state business they fly on planes that belong to the Spanish Air Force.

[Lyonnaise]

Arrival photos from Imaginescandinavia

[Lyonnaise]

last set plus one from Polfoto

[lapopdiva]

MARIÁNGEL ALCÁZAR - 23/02/2005
BRASILIA

Special supper in the Farm of the Torto, calls to account of the president of Brazil. The prince of Asturias in front of another Prince of Asturias, because this way it is possible also to be denominated to Luiz Inácio Lula Da Silva, that the month of October of the 2003 received in Oviedo, of hands of Don Felipe, the prize of the International Cooperation that takes the name of the heir of Trone.

That was a special edition, since between the journalists credited to the traditional delivery of prizes was Asturian journalist Letizia Ortiz, who only one week later would become the official fiance'e of prince Felipe. The then editor of the TVE would confess later that between the awarded of that edition she was impressed off the Brazilian president, ex- union leader, who a year before had reached the highest magistrature of his country.

Yesterday, fifteen months later, Lula and his wife, Leticia Da Silva, welcome to the princes of Asturias in his residence of the Farm of the Torto. Don Felipe and Doña Letizia arrived at Brasilia on the 5 from afternoon (four hours more in Spain) after a flight of eleven hours that transferred them from Madrid to the political capital of Brazil. From cold winter to the heat, so that the shelter and the scarf that the Princes shone when embarking in the official airplane in which they crossed the Atlantic disappeared when arriving at Brasilia, where the temperatures clear the 30 degrees. In the airport they received the Spanish ambassador, Ricardo Peidró, and stops to them positions of the Ministry of Outer Subjects Brazilian.

At 8 of afternoon (midnight in Spain), the Princes were received by Lula and Leticia Da Silva, in their residence. A gesture of the Brazilian president to the princes of Asturias, to those who, besides to have to them prepared for today a Welcome at the highest level, he wanted to distinguish last night with a treatment of friends, fruit of a personal relation and institutional cradle in the knowledge and the mutual esteem.

http://www.lavanguardia.es/web/20050...177824323.html
I use google to translate the article.I hope that everyone can understand the article better.Because not everyone understand it in spanish.

[marezdote]

Arriving from casareal.es:

Sus Altezas Reales los Príncipes de Asturias, acompañados por el embajador de España en Brasilia, Ricardo Peidró, a su llegada a la base aérea de Brasilia, capital en la que comenzarán mañana su primera visita oficial a Iberoamérica.
(Base Aérea de Brasilia -Brasil-, 22 de febrero de 2005)

[Anna_R]

Felipe and Letizia - official visit to Brazil

Crown Prince Felipe of Spain and his wife, Princess Letizia, have started a five-day official visit to Brazil.
After arriving at Brasilia Airport, they went to the Bluetree Hotel, where they will be staying whilst in the capital, and after getting changed they were taken to President Lula's residence for dinner.

From Colourpress

[Anna_R]

Some more from the arrival. The building is the Hotel where they're staying.

Also from Colourpress

[Anna_R]

Going to dinner last night, also from Colourpress

[Anna_R]

From this morning.

Spain's crown Prince Felipe, center right, arrives with his wife Letizia Ortiz at the Brazilian National Congress, in Brasilia, Brazil, on Wednesday, Feb. 23, 2005.
From AAP Image

[Anna_R]

http://br.news.yahoo.com/050223/6/ry6w.html (in Portuguese)

Wed, 23 Feb - 07h20 (6 hours ago)
Lula receives the princes of Asturias

Agência JB

BRASÍLIA - The president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva receives at noon the Princes of Asturias (Spain), Felipe de Borbón and Letizia Ortiz, at the Nobel Room of the Planalto Palace, following, a private meeting will take place. Right after that, the president offers a lunch in honor of the princes at the Itamaraty Palace. Before, at 9h30, Felipe de Borbón and Letizia Ortiz will be received by the presidents of the Senate, Renan Calheiros and of the Congress, Severino Cavalcanti. They'll also meet, at 15h10, the president of the Supreme Court (STF), Nelson Jobim. At 19h30, they'll leave for São Paulo.

[lucys]

Some photos from today from Reuters and AP via Yahoo.com.

[lucys]

A few more--Ap, Reuters and polfoto.

[marezdote]

Thanks for the pictures! Is Felipe's hand wrapped in an Ace bandage or is it in a cast? Can anyone tell from the pics?

[Anna_R]

From Getty Images