{"id":1995,"date":"2018-07-13T09:00:42","date_gmt":"2018-07-13T07:00:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.exoticca.net\/blog\/?p=1995"},"modified":"2019-04-03T15:05:54","modified_gmt":"2019-04-03T13:05:54","slug":"campo-de-criptana-travelling-with-don-quixote","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.exoticca.com\/ca\/blog\/campo-de-criptana-travelling-with-don-quixote\/","title":{"rendered":"Campo de Criptana: travelling with Don Quixote"},"content":{"rendered":"

Campo de Criptana is famous because of its windmills. Those enormous white constructions that Don Quixote mistook with giants. But there is much more to this little village that Windmills. Keep reading and feel the magic of Castilla. <\/span><\/p>\n

The landscape of\u00a0Criptana\u00a0offers us a rich contrast between the elevation where the town is located and the marked horizontality of the La Mancha plain that surrounds it. The Z\u00e1ncara River crosses the region and creates important lagoon complexes in the area.<\/span>\u00a0The oldest urban nucleus was located where we can today find the sanctuary of Cristo de\u00a0Villajos.\u00a0<\/span>Like many towns in La Mancha, it was for many centuries of Muslim rule. In 1212 the Order of Santiago took good care of it.<\/span><\/p>\n

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