World Youth Day (WYD), celebrated every three years, brings together some 200,000 faithful this Wednesday of the more than a million that are expected to still arrive in Lisbon, a city flooded with religious symbols and blocked by security controls imposed in eve of the arrival of the Pope. The pontiff will arrive throughout the morning.

Pope Francis has embarked on his trip to Lisbon this Wednesday to participate in the WYD events. The papal plane of the Ita Airways company, in which the Vatican delegation and 70 representatives of the media are traveling, took off from Rome at 8:00 a.m. and is scheduled to land at the Figo Seco military base at 10:00 a.m., where it will The President of the Republic, Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa, will wait at the foot of the stairs.

At the airport there will be a brief welcome ceremony, while the official presentations will take place afterwards at the National Palace of Belém, the current residence of the President of the Republic and where Francisco will hold a private meeting with Rebelo de Sousa.

Afterwards, the pope will go to the Cultural Center of Belém and before about 1,000 people, he will deliver his first speech of a more political nature in Portuguese lands, since in 2017 he traveled to Portugal, but only visited Fátima