The solera and quality of the Maritime is extraordinary... and today's act thus makes it clear...

The Real Club Marítimo del Abra - Real Sporting Club paid tribute to Juan Sebastián Elcano on Tuesday, on the occasion of the 500 years of the first round of the world.

With the mast of the Las Arenas club, the event began with a few episodes of this event and with the performance of the Biotz Alai choir, which sang the Boga Boga and two other marine songs.

The names of the 18 sailors who arrived in Sanlúcar de Barrameda in 1522 were read, an aurresku was danced and the flag of the V Centenary was arrived, which has been raised daily during the last three years in the Abra Maritime

In our memory is the tribute that the four marines organized in Getaria in 2019, the Regata Costa Vasca Horizonte Elcano, which sailed along the entire Basque coast to tie in Getaria. It was a privilege to sail along with the school ship Juan Sebastián Elcano as he passed through San Juan de Gaztelugatxe and to witness the tribute he gave to the sailors who left their lives at sea. The entrance to the port of Getaria of the school ship accompanied by the Saltillo, the Lucrecia, the Mater and many others was a show; and the marine mass and the tribute in the monument were the just tribute that deserved a universal Basque by the people of the sea. Today, September 6, and 500 years later that the Nao Victoria arrived in Sanlúcar de Barrameda, we intend with this simple act to rent the flag that we have raised every day for almost three years to remember the celebration of the V Centenary of the first circumnavigation, period that has served us to better know the conditions in which these sailors lived for almost three years that lasted the journey. May this gesture and the name of John Sebastian Elcano live in the memory of all of us and we know how to transmit it to future generations, said Manu Sendagorta, president of the Royal Maritime Club of the Abra-Real Sporting Club, during the emotional act on the ironing.