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Villanueva de los Infantes

Villanueva de los Infantes: ciudad del Siglo de Oro

Villanueva de los Infantes is located in the southeast of the province of Ciudad Real. It is located in the centre of the Campo de Montiel, and has been the capital of the region since 1575. 

 

Declared a Historic-Artistic Monument since 1974, it is home to the most representative sample of works of the Manchego Baroque and Renaissance periods. The urban layout is very symmetrical and offers numerous places of architectural interest. Particularly noteworthy are secular buildings such as La Casa de los Estudios or La Alhóndiga, religious buildings such as the impressive Parish Church of San Andrés or the Church of Santo Domingo, palaces such as that of the Ballestero family or the Casa-Palacio de los Rebuelta, and traditional houses of great beauty, such as the Casa de la Pirra or the Caballero del Verde Gabán. Its façades portray a total of more than 250 coats of arms. Life in this city revolves around the historic buildings of the Plaza Mayor dating from the early seventeenth century.

 

Villanueva de los Infantes preserves the structure of the cities of the Spanish Golden Age. Through its streets travelled Lope de Vega, who wrote "call yourself Villanueva de las Musas / and not of the Infantes Villanueva"; Bartolomé Jiménez Patón; Francisco de Quevedo, who died here in the Convent of Santo Domingo, on 8 September, 1645 (the cell where he wrote his last poems is preserved); and of course Miguel de Cervantes, who, according to a group of scholars from the Complutense University of Madrid, used Villanueva de los Infantes as the point of departure for his famous literary creation, Don Quixote: "and began to traverse the ancient and famous Campo de Montiel; which in fact he was actually traversing".

 

So it is certainly worth visiting Villanueva de los Infantes, capital of Campo de Montiel, origin of Don Quixote and last abode of Quevedo. A city of singular beauty, and of great architectural and urban interest. Experience its festivals, its traditions, its art… come, visit and tell others - Infantes is sure to delight you.


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Villanueva de los Infantes: City of the Golden Age

Villanueva de los Infantes - Capital of the Campo de Montiel - Beginnings of Don Quixote

" ...and he began to traverse the ancient and well-known Campo de Montiel;

which in fact he was actually traversing.”

Chapter II of the First Part of Don Quixote



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