Villaverde proudly pointing to the planned change

The head of the Royal House, Jaime Alfonsín, has referred to the Galician Federation of Vela, which presides Manuel Villaverde, the corresponding credential that certifies the granting by King Philip VI of the title of Real to the federal organization.

In recent months, the governing body of the Galician candle had addressed the Royal House with a corresponding request for such an honor, reinforced more if it is due to the high number of nautical clubs of the autonomous community that possess that distinction.

The reply to the request has been by letter stating that "Your Majesty the King has had to grant the title of Real to the Galician Federation of Vela". In the Misiva, the head of the Royal House transmits the monarch's greetings to "all members of that Federation".

The already RFGV is the first autonomous federation of the Spanish candle to obtain such recognition, that "will premiere" next Tuesday at the Marin Military Naval School with the official presentation of the Galicia Cup of Cruises ORC... the Spanish candle has 18 federations attached to the RFEV.

It was now just over 1800 years ago that Galicia existed as such... it was Caracalla who in the distant year of 216 divided the ancient Iberia into convents, and who occupied part of the Lusitania between the Duero and the Cantabric, including the current Land of Campos and without reaching the domains of the Cantabros, called it Gallaecia. Its capital Braccara Augusta, today Braga in Portuguese territory... its two large cities Lucus Augusta, Lugo, and Asturica Augusta, now Astorga. Little people know that the ancient Galicia, in Rome, had an empress: Serena.

His first king in the broad sense of the word, already almost with the Roman Empire of the West exauted: Hermeric, who rose to the throne in the year 411 in Braga, making Galicia the first European kingdom after Rome. Galicia has always been monarchical, but not in use... first with the Swedish kings, then with the medieval ones with a Pelayo that started a new monarchy and that was probably born in Tuy, or better in Pazos de Tuy, where her father was the "field assistant" of Prince Witiza. Years later the rest of the Apostle Santiago are discovered, being the popular and guerrilla queen of Galicia, who dominates in the central area of the Galician lands... the Queen Lupa. In Tuy three centuries later, Afonso I was born the Galaic, who would be the first king of neighbouring Portugal.

The tozudez of the Catholic Kings in eliminating the Galician stretch eclipsed the power of the "green castras" for more than three centuries. The revenge of Castile where Galaics and Lusitans were not exactly friends, reached such an end that Galicia was removed from the Spanish courts until well entered the 19th century, being represented by the neighbouring Zamora.

In the two republics lived in our country, Galicia always weighed the "monarchical" part more than the "republican" and I refer to the data. A few months ago in full attacks on the other side of the peninsula to our monarchy in the assembly of the Football Federation unanimously approved to be called Royal Galega Federation of Football and now it has done the same thing of sailing... it is still curious that the head of football is a popular politician... Rafael Louzan... and it is also that the one of the Galega de Vela, Manolo Villaverde. pretends to be socialist... and is that in Galicia, it continues to support the monarchies, and is that it comes from very old, almost as there was no history of the Galicia, and by those of the Spanish people who still want to be, or to be of the Spanish people... Galicia ist different!!

Manuel Pedro Seoane
Editor