Spanish King Felipe VI and Queen Letizia will visit the disaster area around Valencia on Sunday.
The visit comes five days after heavy storms in the east and south of Spain, which killed at least 213 people. The exact itinerary of the visit has not been announced.
Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez announced on X that he would travel with the royal couple.
The three visitors are likely to face some resentment in the villages west and south of Valencia, which were hardest hit by Tuesday’s floods.
Many people from the devastated communities felt completely abandoned in the first hours and days after the disaster, with cars and furniture piled up on the muddy streets of villages without drinking water, food, electricity or telecommunications.
Many mayors took matters into their own hands and organized first aid for their residents in villages cut off from the road network.
Support also came from volunteers who walked from the city of Valencia to nearby villages with salvage materials and donations of food, bottled water and clothing.
