Argamasilla de Alba


Argamasilla de Alba, province of Ciudad Real, Castile-La Mancha, Spain. Medrano Cave (Cueva de Medrano). Inside view of the cave, on two levels, where according to tradition, Miguel de Cervantes began to write The Quixot when the Mayor of the town of Medrano arrested and imprisoned him. Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1547-1616), Spanish novelist and poet, the creator of Don Quixote, 1605, fully titled The Ingenious Nobleman Mister Quixote of La Mancha (El Ingenioso Hidalgo Don Quijote de La Mancha).


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