Luis Tourón, author of the book; Alfonso Ussía; Jorge F. Armanía, commander of Marina de Santander and Ignacio Muñoz Pidal, illustrator

The real house of Don Juan de Borbón was not his villa on land, in fact where he was completely at ease, it was on his ship, the Giralda. "This phrase can summarize Luis Tourón's intervention in the presentation of his book," The ships of Don Juan de Borbon. A unique sailor. "With the living room of the Royal Society of Tens de Santander, full of public, Luis Tourón spoke of the marine profile of the Conde de Barcelona, at an event held on Tuesday afternoon. The presentation was accompanied by a series of illustrations by Ignacio Muñoz Pidal who explained how he documents his drawings.

Alfonso Ussía was co-protagonist of the conference, as the author of the book himself stated that a large part of the documentation lies in the personal archive of the writer and columnist of El Debate. The contributions of Luis Tourón and Alfonso Ussía drew an original appearance of the figure of Don Juan de Borbón, which are essential to understand that part of Spain's recent history.

The third protagonist of the event was Jan Abascal, a sailing gold medal at the Olympic Games in Moscow and, currently the sportsman who accompanies King Juan Carlos, in his regatta in Galicia.

Ussía reported some anecdotes of Don Juan de Borbón, whom he met very well, as in addition to the stage of the Conde Barcelona in Estoril, Don Juan lived in Madrid in the house of Count los Gaitanes, father of Ussía.

Luis Tourón is the largest expert in the history of sports nautical in Spain and author of several books, one of them is a study of the sailing boats that King Alfonso XIII, the father of Don Juan de Borbón, had. Tourón placed special emphasis on Santander's importance in sports nautical and recalled the famous New York-Santander regatta that is in the annals of the candle. Tourón announced that one of the ships of Don Juan de Borbón, the Torino, is being rehabilitated in Italy and that it will soon be able to be in Spain, as a historical piece of the national nautical.

In the presentation of Luis Tourón's book, in addition to Ussía, the author was accompanied by the illustrator of the book, Ignacio Muñoz Pidal; the Marine Commander of Santander; the President of the Royal Society of the Santander Tennis and the President of the Federation of Vela de Cantabria. As a closure of the event, different individuals and entities delivered books and metopas to Luis Tourón in recognition of his work for the sport candle.

Nautica Digital, wants to express its public appreciation to Don Alfonso Ussía Muñoz Seca... for having authorized us to play on our web of nautical cutting, the great periodical report of the event held in the Royal Society of Tennis of Santander, and that has published the very prestigious website of EL DEBATE. The fact has given us full satisfaction, and more so as it is someone as respected as well as appreciated and loved, as is Don Luis Tourón. Thank you from the heart of all of us who are part of Digital Nautics.