The Navy training ship

Juan Sebastián Elcano

has arrived this Sunday at the port of Cádiz, after 10 months of crossing in

his 93 midshipman training cruise,

with King Felipe VI on board.

Don Felipe has spent the night in

Elcano,

after he embarked yesterday afternoon when the ship anchored in the waters of the Gulf of Cádiz, according to sources from the Navy.

The ship has been accompanied by the frigate

Victoria

and by small private vessels until it enters the port of Cadiz, where the amphibious assault ship

Galicia

has paid tribute to it

once it has set sail for the Cádiz dock.

There,

around 1,000 people awaited the arrival of their relatives,

a crew that has spent

10 months on board the ship,

in a circumnavigation that, Navy sources, have described as "unique", having not been able to go ashore during the whole journey.

The King greets the relatives of the ship's crew.

In fact, it ended a month earlier than expected due to the current pandemic circumstances, and the crew was vaccinated with the first dose on May 30 in the port of Souda, on the island of Crete.

As soon as he touched land, the King received the different civil authorities aboard Elcano, including the president of the Junta de Andalucía, Juanma Moreno, when he got off the ship to greet the families present before leaving, he was fired with 18 saves.

Once the 62 midshipmen on board, from the 423rd General Corps and 153rd Marine Corps, and the crew, made up of 197 men and women, have disembarked to greet their families, the ship has begun its transit to the La Carraca Naval Base, in San Fernando, concluding both its XCIII Instruction Cruise and its XI round the world.

In addition, in this

eleventh circumnavigation,

two half-boots from Amontillado Viña AB

Estrella de los Mares

have traveled in the warehouses of the school ship

, a broth from González Byass qualified "back and forth" that commemorates the feat carried out by the Portuguese Fernando de Magallanes and Juan Sebastián Elcano, and now returning to Jerez for its bottling.

The training ship 'Juan Sebastán El Cano'.

The ship set sail from San Fernando (Cádiz) on August 24 to commemorate the deed carried out by Magallanes and Elcano, making a stopover on their journey in key places of the first round-the-world trip in history.

Specifically, Elcano has spent 241 days crossing,

traveling 35,000 nautical miles

and visiting 13 ports in three different oceans.

Among them, Punta Arenas (Strait of Magellan, Chile), in October;

Guam (Marianas, Micronesia), Samar and Cebu (Philippines), in March, and Ternate and Tidore (Moluccas, Indonesia), in April, on the same dates that

five centuries ago the expedition led first by Magellan

and, later, by Elcano.

The Juan Sebastián Elcano, 113 meters long and equipped with four masts and 20 sails, made its last stop last week in Valletta (Malta) after crossing the Suez Canal.

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