Queen Letizia arrived in Dakar, to attend the opening ceremony of the Cervantes Institute of Senegal. Upon arrival at Blaise Diagne International Airport in Dakat, The Queen was welcomed by Marieme Faye Sall, First Lady of the Republic of Senegal. Directed by Nestor Nongo Nsala, born in the Democratic Republic of Congo and naturalised Spanish, the Dakar Cervantes Centre occupies a two-storey building of 680 square metres on a 1,500-metre plot.