We will leave from Madrid city centre, escorted by our guide, setting course to La Mancha región, land of Don Quixote. We will make our first stop in El Toboso, a little village where Aldonza Lorenzo lived. She was Don Quixote’s eternal love and is also mentioned in the novel as Dulcinea del Toboso. We will next head to the iconic Windmills in Mota del Cuervo. It is one more crucial scenario in Cervantes’ novel, where we will get to explore the inside of several lof the 7 windmills located there. The place of our lunch will be the walled village of Belmonte. We will have 1:45hrs to have our meal. After a stroll around its streets we will visit the magnificent Don Juan Pacheco Castle.
At around 17:30hrs we will depart towards Madrid, so we can arrive at 19:00hrs to the place where we started our trip.

Visit to El Toboso. We will walk through the streets of this typical La Mancha town following the steps that once led Don Quixote and his squire Sancho in search for the knight’s love: Dulcinea del Toboso. Through this literary tour, we will get to know one of the villages that Don Miguel de Cervantes mentioned more frequently in his work.

Visit to Mota del Cuervo theme Windmills. Following the steps of the Nobleman we will get to the Quixotesque town of Mota Del Cuervo, where its impressive windmills will welcome us. In La Mancha Balcony these 7 giants raise: The Lefthanded, The Cervantes, The Piqueras, The Giant, The Goethe, The Irak and the Franz Grillparzer. se elevan estos 7 Gigantes: El Zurdo, El Cervantes, El Piqueras, El Gigante, El Goethe, El Irak y el Franz Grillparzer. We will explore the inside of the one devoted to milling, the Etnographic and the one devoted to crafts.

Lunch in Belmonte

Guided visit of Belmonte and Juan Pacheco Castle. We will walk along the streets of this knights’ town with our guide, and we will end our excursion with a guided visit of Juan Pacheco Castle. This castle is one of the best examples of palatial houses from the XV century; It was built by order of the Marquis of Pacheco and renewed during the XIX century by the french empress Eugenia de Montijo. It currently hosts a magnificent Interpretation Centre about the building’s history.