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Cervantes en Castro del Río

Castro del Río, Guadajoz-Campiña Este, Córdoba

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Cervantes en Castro del Río

Historical milestone · Castro del Río, Guadajoz-Campiña Este, Córdoba

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Miguel de Cervantes arrived in Castro del Río in 1587 as a royal supply commissioner. In 1592 he was briefly imprisoned, accused of selling wheat irregularly: it was his first imprisonment on Spanish soil, and some scholars see in the episode a seed of Don Quixote. The town is part of the Network of Cervantine Cities; the Academia Cervantina was founded there in 2024.

1592 (encarcelamiento); 2024 (fundación de la Academia Cervantina)

Photo: CFA1877 (CC BY-SA 4.0)

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