Alcázar de San Juan
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Alcázar de San Juan or simply Alcázar is a town and municipality in the province of Ciudad Real, part of the autonomous community of Castile-La Mancha, Spain.
It is located in the plain of La Mancha. Its name is taken from an old moorish fortress (Alcazar in Arabic language, which was afterwards garrisoned by the knights of St John (San Juan in Spanish language). Much of the action of Cervantes' Don Quixote takes place around Alcázar. The village of El Toboso was the home of the Lady Dulcinea del Toboso; Argamasilla de Alba is declared by tradition to be the birthplace of the original of Don Quixote himself.
It is believed that Alcázar is the birthplace of Miguel de Cervantes as a birth certificate was found with that name in Santa María church, however historians deny this fact.
[edit] External links
- Alcázar de San Juan in Google Maps
- Tourism info center of Alcázar de San Juan
- Webpage reivindicating that is the birthplace of Miguel de Cervantes
- Alcázar User's Blog
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