Those fierce giants

From that magnificent display of creativity, which he made, at the time when Gothic art began to decline, giving way to other more enriched, although less mysterious, styles and made our Literature stand out with universal glory and merit, we are left with those unusual elements of popular architecture, the windmills, which the ironic creativity of Miguel de Cervantes, after his captivity in the dark dungeons of Algiers, turned into the terrible giants that would star in one of the first and most fun adventures of the most universal of our knights-errant: Don Quixote of la Mancha.

Eternally associated with the landscape of La Mancha and converted, by default, into inseparable elements of tradition and the best of its varied cultural heritage, it is difficult for the traveler who undertakes a journey towards the multicultural settings of an Andalusia whose horizon towards the infinite and sunny African sunrises, not to be seduced by the melancholic beauty of their vision, silhouetted against the mountains of white towns, whose inhabitants, in an endearingly metaphorical way, as happened to our great poet, Antonio Machado, continue to see the figure of Don Quixote passing by.

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