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La Mancha is a natural region and comarca located in the autonomous community of Castilla–La Mancha, covering parts of the provinces of Albacete, Ciudad Real, Cuenca and Toledo. Its area varies accord
La Mancha's traditional windmills like these, still standing at Campo de Criptana, were immortalized in the novel Don Quixote.
Typical landscape of La Mancha in the province of Ciudad Real
View of one of the windmills of Consuegra (Toledo), a typical image of the region and a visual reference to Don Quixote
Bicha of Balazote, an example of Iberian art in La Mancha.
Don Quixote
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Don Quixote is a novel by Miguel de Cervantes, written in Early Modern Spanish and published in two parts in 1605 and 1615. It is considered a founding work of Western literature and the first modern
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…that were never Aragonese but Castilian to be called 'de Aragón'. In 1605, three decades after Philip II's Relaciones, Miguel de Cervantes published The Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote of La Mancha, and in 1615, its second part: Second part of the ingenious knight Don Quixote of La Mancha. It is a burlesque: the protagonists of his beloved chivalric…
Don Quixote de la Mancha (first edition, 1605, printed by Juan de la Cuesta)
Don Quixote goes mad from his reading of books of chivalry. Engraving by Gustave Doré.
Illustration by Gustave Doré depicting the famous windmill scene
Don Quixote de la Mancha and Sancho Panza, 1863, by Gustave Doré