Overview
- The monarchs toured the Centro del Carme exhibition, “The Transformation of Valencia 1866–2026,” which presents 30 milestones from the city’s history through front pages, articles and commissioned illustrations.
- They spent about 45 minutes speaking with Las Provincias reporters about the paper’s DANA coverage and commended the value of ground-level local journalism.
- Artist Luis Lonjedo discussed his mural honoring volunteers who crossed the Puente de la Solidaridad, and the royals received a sketch of the piece.
- The itinerary included a visit to the UPV Fine Arts lab for the ‘Salvem les Fotos’ project, where organizers demonstrated cleaning, digitization and AI tools that they say have helped restore more than 250,000 flood-damaged photographs.
- Regional leaders, including the president of the Generalitat, Valencia’s mayor and minister Diana Morant, joined the visit, which marked the royals’ first trip to the Valencian Community in 2026.