Plaza de Espana and Correct pronunciation of Don Quixote

How do you pronounce Don Quixote?

I think most people have read the stories of Don Quixote and his assistant Sancho Panza, if for some reason you have not then try putting it on your bucket list and get to it whenever you can. It is one of the best works written in early 1600 and published in 1615. Don Quixote lives in his on world. Sancho Panza is another great character. A simple farmer recruited as squire by the self proclaimed Knight and the two head out to change the world. It is pretty entertaining. We did not have the slightest idea that our Guide would take us to see the Statues of Don Quixote and Sancho Panza that are in the Plaza de Espana.

We are glad that he did. I do not know about you but when I read the stories in school we always pronounced Quixote as Quix-zote. Emphasis was on the Z. It sounded a bit different when the Guide pronounced it as Qui-Hote, which by the way is the correct pronunciation. When we got to the park it was pretty chilly but we were surprised to see that there were many tourists already circling around taking pictures and selfies.

Time for a group picture - we asked them to move over as Don Quixote was coming chasing at them.

The statues are in a park with a pond in front and the backdrop of Madrid downtown. It is a nice small park that looked pretty with fall colors still welcoming us.

Plaza de Espana -

The center of the plaza features a monument to Spanish novelist, poet and playwright Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra designed by architects Rafael Martínez Zapatero and Pedro Muguruza, and by the sculptor Lorenzo Coullaut Valera. Most of the monument was built between 1925 and 1930. It was finished between 1956 and 1957 by Federico Coullaut-Valera Mendigutia, the son of the original sculptor.

The tower portion of the monument includes a stone sculpture of Cervantes overlooking bronze sculptures of Don Quixote and Sancho Panza. Next to the tower, there are two stone representations of Don Quixote's "true love", one as the simple peasant woman Aldonza Lorenzo, and one as the beautiful, imaginary Dulcinea del Toboso.

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