The event was prepared well in advance. Now we are celebrating the fourth centenary of the publication of Don Quijote de la Mancha.
"'In a village of La Mancha the name of which I have no desire to recall ...' has challenged Cervantes scholars for centuries. Various small towns south of Madrid on the rolling plains of La Mancha have been named in the past as Don Quixote's home village.
But detective work by a team led by Francisco Parra Luna has now found that all clues lead to Villanueva de los Infantes, a small town with a population of 5,800, some 144 miles south of Madrid."
Follow a digital tour and here is your English translation.
Don Quijote de la Mancha is a book of books. It was an inspiration for many artists, one of the most famous is Picasso.
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