Overview
- Members of the Peruvian community in La Laguna performed Augusto Polo Campos’s song “Esta es mi tierra,” wearing white with red scarves and moving many attendees to tears.
- The tribute took place at the end of a migrants’ encounter in Tenerife and served as the closing public moment of the pope’s seven-day visit to Spain.
- A technical fault with the Iberia plane scheduled to fly the pope to Rome led Spanish authorities to board him on an official government Falcon and delayed departure by more than three hours.
- King Felipe VI accompanied the pope to the Falcon’s stairs and, according to Royal Household sources, planned to return to Madrid on a separate Air Force aircraft; the pope’s travelling group included press, Vatican staff and security personnel.
- The episode combined pastoral outreach with an operational test for state transport arrangements, highlighting close ties between the pope and diaspora communities and the role of government contingency planning for high-profile visits.