Royal Visit In Pensacola

Florida Pensacola Spain's King Juan Carlos and Queen Sofia
are in Pensacola celebrating the 450th anniversary of the Spanish
coming to Florida.

by Associated Press

Published: Thu, February 19, 2009 - 1:44 pm CST Last Updated: Thu, February 19, 2009 - 1:46 pm CST

PENSACOLA, Fla. (AP) - Spain's King Juan Carlos and Queen Sofia
are in Pensacola celebrating the 450th anniversary of the Spanish
coming to Florida.
Hundreds of school children, waiving red and yellow flags,
cheered the royal couple during a motorcade Thursday from Pensacola
Beach into a downtown square where both spoke. Red and white are
the colors of the Spanish flag.
They also visited the site of the battle of Pensacola in 1781
when the Spanish defeated the British.
Spanish sailor Don Tristan de Luna arrived in Pensacola on
August 15, 1559, with a contingent of more than 1,500 soldiers,
servants, settlers, priests and Mexican Indians.
Florida Gov. Charlie Crist and U.S. Sen. Bill Nelson talked
about the history shared by Florida and Spain.

(Copyright 2009 by The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.)

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bobcat Says:

Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 1:56 pm

Obama may have been too busy headed to LA. on Air Force One to get his back waxed and those pistachio shell fingernails of his buffed up and clear coated at a whopping 5.3 million dollars to the American tax payers. (shhh…probably top-secret).

rmseek1234 Says:

Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 1:14 pm

And where was our great President Osama? Shouldn’t he or a representative have been there????

ickthus Says:

Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 3:18 pm

this is to cool. i wish all the kids could go see this today. history has to be the greatest learning tool we have above all. Having kids see part of the living past of the state of Fl and this country will stay with them more than any book.