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Consuegra
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"Consuegra is famous for its charming white windmills, the same ones that Don Quixote mistook for giants and attacked in the book "The Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote of La Mancha".
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Consuegra is an attractive town with nice squares and a number of Mudejar churches.
Consuegra is famous for its windmills. These are the same ones, though restored, that Don Quixote fought in Cervante's novel "The Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote of La Mancha" when he mistook the sails for the arms of giants. Because of the windmills Consuegra is part of the 'Don Quixote trail' which takes travellers around the main sights mentioned in the book.
The windmills are attractive round white windmills with black roofs and sails and sit in a line of 11 along the top of a hill. There were 13 originally and 11 of them remain. Each of the windmills has its own name. The windmills stopped being used for grinding grain in the 1980s though one is now used as an ice-cream shop - a welcome place to cool down from the high summer temperatures experienced in Castilla La Mancha. The tourist office is housed inside one of the windmills giving you a chance to step inside.
The fields around Consuegra turn purple in the autumn as the saffron crocuses bloom and one of the windmills (the one called Sancho) is set in motion each year for the celebration's of the harvest of the saffron crop. The celebrations take place on the last weekend of October.
Also on the ridge overlooking the town is a ruined castle and from here you get great views over the surrounding plains.
Consuegra is about 60km from Toledo and makes an excellent day trip from here.
For more information see Wikipedia Spain: Consuegra.