Styles
In this section you can search all our contents throughout the different stages in the history of art in Spain, to find styles such as Baroque, Gothic, Mudejar and many, many more.
Modernism and Avant-garde movements
The turn of the century brought new winds of modernity. The aesthetic sensibility of the time was marked by a different, freer attitude towards art and life.
Topics
In this section you can search among all our contents by topic to find the different resources available in Spain, such as museums, routes, destinations, monuments and many, many more.
Audience
This section provides access to all the contents in a personalised way, according to your own particular interests and socio-demographic profile.
Autonomous Regions
This section provides access to the contents in each autonomous region by browsing through maps.
Other Cervantes sites
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Cerro Calderico windmills, Consuegra © Turespaña
These places in Spain are interesting for their connections to episodes in 'Don Quixote' and the life of its author, Miguel de Cervantes, and are attractive places to visit in their own right.
Cerro Calderico ridge and its twelve windmills
In Toledo province, near the village of Consuegra, there is a group of 12 traditional windmills that might well have inspired the famous scene where Don Quixote and Sancho Panza fight the giants. Each windmill has been given a name from the novel. See more information.. See more information.
La Posada del Potro
This traditional 15th century house in the city of Cordoba is mentioned in Don Quixote. Several spaces have been preserved intact, including the stables, the upper gallery, the courtyard, the porch, and some of the rooms. It is now a cultural centre, and exhibitions are held there. See more information.
Church and Convent of the Discalced Trinitarians
This Baroque complex has strong connections to Cervantes. His remains are in the crypt here; this is also the convent that his illegitimate daughter entered; and it was the Trinitarian order who secured his release from captivity in Algiers. See more information.
Old Customs House
In the second part of the novel, Don Quixote and Sancho Panza visit Barcelona. Inside this building in the city are several allegorical paintings which relate to this episode.See more information.
Find out more about the world of Cervantes and the interesting places connected to his life and work on the special Cervantes page of Spain is Culture.
