Overview
- The Vatican, which on Wednesday released a minute‑by‑minute schedule, confirmed the June 6–12 route through Madrid, Barcelona and a first‑ever stop in the Canary Islands.
- The program features a private meeting with Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez at the Vatican embassy in Madrid and a first‑ever address by a pope to a joint session of Spain’s Parliament.
- Beyond protocol, León XIV will visit a homeless services center in Madrid, meet inmates at Barcelona’s Brians I prison, and speak with migrants in Gran Canaria’s Arguineguín port and Tenerife’s Las Raíces center.
- In Barcelona, the pope will preside at a Mass in the Sagrada Família and inaugurate the new Tower of Jesus, alongside large youth prayer gatherings at Madrid’s Plaza de Lima and Barcelona’s Olympic Stadium.
- Spain’s Interior Ministry has set a special multi‑phase security plan (instruction 2/2026) tied to the reinforced national terror alert, with roughly 11,000 National Police and more than 2,200 Guardia Civil planned as the core deployment while regional and municipal numbers are finalized.