La Mancha Day Trip from Madrid: The Don Quixote Experience

Discover La Mancha, comprising Belmonte, Mota Del Cuervo, and the village of El Toboso, where, according to recent research, Miguel de Cervantes was inspired to write the most famous novel of all time: The Ingenious Hidalgo Don Quixote de la Mancha. We'll visit the resored Castle of Belmonte, making a stop along the way at Mont Reaga winery in Monreal del Llano for a guided tour of the cellars followed by a tasting of their best wines. We will have lunch at a typical inn at Mota del Cuervo. After lunch we'll visit the famous windmills, who witnessed the battle between Don Quixote against the Giants of his imagination. If there is enough wind, we'll see how flour was traditionally made from the wheat. The tour will end at El Toboso, the village of Dulcinea, and the love of Don Quixote. El Toboso houses the Cervantes Museum, which keep hundreds of Don Quixote editions in almost all languages in the world. The House-Museum of Dulcinea Del Toboso faithfully replicates the home of a knight in the time of Cervantes, as it would have been in the house of Don Alonso Quijano: El Quixote. From El Toboso we'll return to Madrid, saying good-bye to an extraordinary journey in La Mancha, the land of Don Quixote.

The tour ends at underground parking Plaza de Oriente, Level 2.