The black dress is simply a tradition in the military world, which unfortunately some of they of them only it link with the epoch of Franco, is more ignorance and desire of criticizing that another thing. Because for centuries that the women belonged dressed in black, or they were taking mantilla especially in certain religious and military acts it was normal. And still today in day this tradition is kept also in the hearings with the Pope in the Vatican, where except the catholic Queens, the women must come of black and with the covered head. And in Spain in the processions of Holy Week, there continues being a group of women that dresses in black and with mantilla. They are only traditions that are kept.
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1. Quee Maria Luisa by Goya
2. Queen Victoria Eugenia
3. Women in Sevilla´s Holy Week
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8.000 persons give a warm welcome to the Princes of Asturias in their visit to Lucena
For express desire of Their Royal Highnesses, the Princes of Asturias, there broke yesterday the protocol of official visit in Lucena's New Plaza in order that Don Felipe and Dona Letizia could " be with the people the major possible time " during their stay to inaugurate the Technological Center of the Furniture and of the Madeira Andalusian.
And so that at first there was foreseen that lasted only a few minutes, from the entry of the square, where a girl delivered a branch of flowers to the Princess, up to the door of the Town hall, managed to be the whole bath of multitudes - up to 8.000 persons had congregated there - closely of a quarter of hour, in which the couple pressed hands hard, it greeted and conversed amicably with the lucentinos, which remained been charmed with from the beginning.
It had been requested before by the mayor, Jose Luis Bergillos, and his fellow-citizens answered to the call, up to the point of which the local colleges allowed that, from 11 a.m., the children should be in the street of greeting the Princes. For it, the square was crammed with people, besides whom in the balconies, windows and roofs of the adjacent buildings there congregated numerous onlookers who shouted keenly the names of both.
" It is a great honor and a distinction we were waiting neither for that nor ourselves do not even deserve ourselves, since in the space of four years to possess again the visit of Don Felipe, and in this case accompanied of Dona Letizia, it is the whole luxury to which the people has could answer ", Bergillos indicated.
Not even the rain, which did act of presence in some occasions, could water down a visit in which the greeting was not absent to the whole municipal Corporation or the delivery of official gifts, that, in this occasion, supposed a sample of the oils of the future Denomination of Origin Oil of Lucena, which it represents to eleven municipalities of the south of the province; an image of the Virgin of Araceli, as Mistress of Lucena and of the whole Andalusian field, and a few cards of personalized associates of honor of the Lucena Club of Football for Don Felipe, Dona Letizia and the Infanta Dona Leonor.
After discovering a commemorative plate of this day in the stairs of entry of the Council lucentino, the couple and their procession, between(among) that there were the president of the Meeting, Manuel Chaves, several counselors, as well as the subdelegate of the Government, Jesus Maria Ruiz, and the president of the Deputation, Francisco Pulido, entered inside the Town hall, from which they looked out of one of its balconies to return to greet the public congregated to their feet.
Already inside, the Princes and the own Manuel Chaves listened to mouth of the manager of Coreco, Joaquín Lopez, and to a workers' representation, which after the suffered fire last Monday that devastated one of its principal ships, has turned to the work in order that everything continues working within one month. To change, Don Felipe offered to them all their support, as the president of the Andalusian Executive. " I believe that the presence of the Princes has served in order that the administrations we overturn more thoroughly with this damaged company ", admitted the mayor.
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they both looked very regal, and the Princess looked great with and without the mantilla.
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