«La Mancha de Don Quijote»
(Ángel Ligero Móstoles)

Thorough research about the characters, geography, places and events created by Cervantes in his immortal play "Don Quixote de La Mancha". It analyzes the boundaries of La Mancha in times of Cervantes, as well as the Hidalgo's genealogy. The ventas (country inns) and the characters are located and identified by Ligero, thanks to the patient and tireless work made over thirty years looking for information in archives all over Spain.

This work can be considered as an indispensable book for those who are keen on Miguel de Cervantes's life and plays. And as long as Ligero's theses are not revoked documentally, avoiding any silence or discredit with no scientific foundation, two claming traditions will stay alive: That "The place of La Mancha, the name of which I have no desire to call to mind" and "Cervantes's true birthplace" are exactly the same place: Alcázar de San Juan.

To those people of Alcázar proud of our history and traditions corresponds the stimulation of a civilized debate within the Cervantine society, so that our arguments can be defended and contrasted with other well-known hypotheses, in order to obtain the elucidation of truth.