The desolate landscape of La Mancha recalls Don Quixote and his faithful companion Sancho Panza. The white windmills with their black roofs and waving vanes look like those frightful giants against which the "Sad Knight" fought in vain. Cervantes set this adventure of Don Quixote in the red-brown sandy-coloured plains against the contrasting blue open sky. Incidentally, this region is named after the Arabic "manxa" meaning "dry earth".
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