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:
-
Papagayo Beach, Lanzarote, Canary Islands, Spain
-
Veined octopus
-
Amazon rainforest, Ecuador
-
Giraffes at sunset in the Masai Mara National Reserve, Kenya
-
Spiral aloe, Kangaroo Island, Australia
-
Northern hawk-owl
-
Abraham Lake, Alberta, Canada
-
Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness
-
Coll dAres, Catalan Pyrenees
-
Eurasian red squirrel
-
Point Reyes National Seashore
-
Mesquite Flat Sand Dunes in Death Valley National Park, United States
-
Great horned owl
-
Lençóis Maranhenses National Park, Brazil
-
Caribbean flamingos, Yucatán Peninsula, Mexico
-
Magellanic penguins, Volunteer Point, Falkland Islands
-
Polar bear cubs
-
Green sea turtle, New Caledonia
-
Plains zebras, South Africa
-
Dardagna waterfalls, Bologna, Italy
-
Red kite in snow
-
Winding road of Julier Pass, Switzerland
-
Oloupena Falls, island of Molokai, Hawaii, United States
-
Tree frog on leaf
-
Giant cuttlefish, Whyalla, South Australia, Australia
-
Alpine marmots, Hohe Tauern National Park, Austria
-
Mount Assiniboine Provincial Park, Canada
-
Vineyards in Varnhalt, Black Forest, Germany
-
European beech forest, Belgium
-
The Moon
Bing Wallpaper Gallery

