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La Mancha - In Search of Don Quijote
by Michel Paul-Anthony Cruz (scrawl@activanet.es)

The following is an excerpt from "La Mancha—In Search of Don Quijote", published in Essential Marbella Magazine, Issue 37, May 2002.

La Mancha is inextricably connected to Don Quijote; mention the name and it immediately produces images of two solitary figures on horseback, silhouetted against the arid plains of a tableland punctuated not by trees, but by rotund white windmills.

Today you can still follow Don Quijote’s trail, where the tragicomical, melancholy knight and his wily peasant servant, Sancho Panza, roamed about aimlessly, mistaking windmills for ‘giants’.
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Clinging to Life
by Valerie Collins

Did you know that of the more than 6500 languages currently spoken on our planet, fewer than half are likely to survive this century? Native American, African, Australian languages, stuff like that, no? Actually, it’s a bit closer to home. UNESCO’s Red Book on Endangered Languages (updated 1999) has no less than 94 entries for Europe. And, with the exception of Catalan, all the minority languages spoken in Spain are on that list.
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- Farmer's winter harvest, sugar beets -	- Guggenheim museum, Bilbao -	- Women ploughing -

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