Article from "La Vanguardia":
http://www.lavanguardia.es/web/20060223/51234400907.html
And it's ROUGH translation:
The Princes of Asturias venerate to the virgin of Rocio in Almonte VANGUARD - 23/02/2006 Efe. HUELVA
At the most touching moment of their yesterday's visit to Andalusia, the Princes of Asturias venerated to the Virgin of Rocio in the parish of Our Lady of Asuncio'n of Huelva), where she is the past from month of August. The image venerates habitually in the hermitage of the village of Rocio, twelve kilometers from Almonte, but traditionally, every seven years, the Coming from the Virgin to its town takes place, where the 101 brotherhoods alternate each weekend to visit it, which causes that the population happens of to almost 30,000 14,000 people this locality. Indeed the Martriz Brotherhood of Rocio of Almonte (Huelva) took advantage of the real visit to offer to the Princes the medal of honor of its congregation, since they were the only members of the Royal House that haven't had this distinction yet. Not only two, but three to them did not grant since also they had that detail towards new born infanta Leonor, who indeed celebrated her Saint's Day yesterday. The Bishop of Huelva, Ignacio Noguer Carmona, and the president of the First Brotherhood of Rocio of Almonte, Jose Joaquin Gil Goatherd, hoped, next to other representative figures of the brotherhood and the municipality, to the princes of Asturias to the doors of the Parish of Asuncio'n, where is the White Dove. To their arrival they had a warmest reception, since thousands of people hoped before their doors to be able to greet Don Felipe and Doña Letizia. Accompanied with the song by Salve Rociera, interpreted by the Chorale of Almonte and the Choir of Our Lady of the Rocio of the onubense locality, and also by animated Sevillian the Princes made its entrance to the temple. Don Felipe and Doña Letizia took advantage of the visit to kiss the mantle of the virgin of the Rocio and shaped their signatures in the honor book of the brotherhood. It was the distendido moment of their yesterday's trip to Andalusia, where they also visited the company of the Zone of Gibraltar and in Doñana, one of the more important natural reserves of the whole Europe, and declared reserve of the Biosphere by UNESCO. Felipe de Borbón and his wife Doña Letizia fulfilled a program filled with activities. If in the morning they inaugurated the new seat of the Official Camera of Commerce, Industry and Navigation of the Field of Gibraltar, located in Algeciras (Cadiz), in the evening presided over II the Days on sustainable development, in Almonte. The heir of Corona was in the Zone of Gibraltar during his official visit to Andalusia in 2002, and then he already could verify the special affection that professes to Corona the inhabitants of this region, whose history has been always marked by the problems of the Rock. The recibimiento was yesterday one of the warmest due to the presence of his wife, the Princess of Asturias, who was dressed in the combined gray American and dark trousers. Felipe de Borbón, emphasized during the inauguration speech that the "great work of the Chambers of Commerce to the service of the economy" of the seat of this institution of the Zone of Gibraltar, Cadiz. Don Felipe, offered "their better desires of success in the new stage that today begins" and sent a message "to all the society of the Zone of Gibraltar of which as today it has a modern building, representative and functional". On the other hand, the president of the Meeting of Andalusia, Manuel Chaves, bet in his speech for the Mediterranean cooperation and the alliance of civilizations. The Princes of Asturias discovered around 12,00 a plate in the occasion of the inauguration of the seat. To the entrance of the new building, they were received by the plenary session of the Camara and, after discovering the plate, they greeted the president of the Mancomunidad of Municipalities of the Field of Gibraltar, Juan Montedeoca, and to the mayors of this region.