They discover the famous place of La Mancha to which Cervantes referred in Don Quixote

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A sculpture of Don Quixote in Consuegra

They are not windmills, they are giants!

have been necessary more than 10 years of study and work of 20 experts in History, Philology, Sociology, Mathematics and Information Sciences to conclude that Villanueva de Los Infantes , a town in Ciudad Real with 5,800 inhabitants, is the place where four centuries ago Miguel de Cervantes It was the beginning of the action of the most famous work of Spanish literature, they explain in La Vanguardia.

This finding unseats Alba mastic , a municipality of 7,110 inhabitants located about 60 kilometers from Villanueva, which since the 18th century had the honor of being that place in La Mancha. The reason? The village priest established that this town was where the illustrious hidalgo resided.

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