This year marks the
400th anniversary of Cervantes’s literary
masterpiece about the travels of Don Quixote. The famous publication has been translated into over 100 languages and is
said to be the world’s most widely published book after the Bible. The nomadic escapades of the knight and his sidekick
Sancho have been celebrated around the world for years and especially since January of 2005, when this anniversary
commemoration kicked off in the Castilla-La
Mancha region of Spain.
In honor of the anniversary, regional government officials worked to create the “longest green tourism route”,
outlined on this interactive map of Quixote’s
travels. The map is fantastically detailed, with ten sections that each contain valuable travel info and historical
“It might have happened here” landmarks.
If you can’t make a trip to La Mancha to celebrate, maybe consider a stop at a new exhibit which opened last month
at the George Peabody Library in Baltimore:
Celebrating
400 Years of Don Quixote de la Mancha, which highlights selections from the
library’s collection of Quixote publications. “Don Quixote Round the
World”, a travelling exhibition featuring paintings, drawings and engravings, has also been on a world-wide tour of
book fairs since April.