Article Nº 0478 Foreign visitor or author on Madeira Vol. I · p. 263
Belgium (King of)
Original title: Bélgica (Rei da)
Records visits to Madeira by King Leopold of Belgium in 1897 and by Prince Albert, later king, in 1909.
King Leopold II of Belgium visited Funchal in 1897, landing on 17 September and leaving for the Canary Islands on the 19th of the same month. He went to Monte (‘hill’), to the Eira do Serrado (‘threshing floor of the ridge’) and to a few other spots near the city.
Prince Albert, later Albert I, King of the Belgians, visited Madeira on 30 April 1909 on his voyage to the Cape of Good Hope and the Congo Free State, and was received by the senior authorities of the district.
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