In the town of Consuegra, the echoes of the adventures of Don Quixote—the hero of the Spanish epic novel by Miguel de Cervantes—still linger. This tourist destination in Castilla-La Mancha is famous for a small mountain range, known as Cerro Calderico. The range is crowned with 12 white windmills, perhaps the very same that inspired Cervantes to picture them as an army of giants. With their stone walls and wooden blades, some of these windmills date back to the 16th century. Now, they are living relics of a bygone era when they were used to grind grain.
Castilla-La Mancha, Spain
Today in History
More Desktop Wallpapers:
-
Red deer stag
-
Pont de pierre, Bordeaux, France
-
Library of Trinity College Dublin, Ireland
-
Vineyards above the Moselle River, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany
-
Llyn Padarn lake, Snowdonia, Wales
-
Milky Way over Southwest Alentejo and Vicentine Coast Natural Park, Portugal
-
Mesquite Flat Sand Dunes in Death Valley National Park, United States
-
Chestnut-headed bee-eaters
-
Basalt columns in Kálfshamarsvík cove, Skagi peninsula, Iceland
-
Castellfollit de la Roca, Catalonia, Spain
-
Coastal redwoods in Redwood National and State Parks, California, United States
-
Externsteine, Teutoburg Forest, Germany
-
Andermatt village in the Alps, Switzerland
-
Naxos, Cyclades, Greece
-
Boreal owl
-
Kaiserstuhl, Germany
-
Molokini crater, Maui, Hawaii, USA
-
Bardenas Reales Biosphere Reserve and Natural Park, Navarra, Spain
-
Mam Tor, Derbyshire, England
-
Water tower in Cuxhaven, Germany
-
Varenna on Lake Como, Italy
-
Spotted owlet, Bangkok, Thailand
-
Cades Cove, Great Smoky Mountains National Park
-
Least chipmunk
-
Peggys Point Lighthouse, Atlantic Coast, Nova Scotia, Canada
-
Wadden Sea coast, Friesland, Netherlands
-
Swaledale sheep in North Yorkshire, England
-
Moeraki Boulders, South Island, New Zealand
-
Lake Minnewanka, Alberta, Canada
-
Banff National Park, Alberta, Canada
Bing Wallpaper Gallery

