Windmills of Consuegra Wood Print

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The famous windmills that Don Quixote jousted with are just outside Toledo, Spain, in the village of Consuegra. I visited them while touring study abroad for our Spanish students at Saint Michael's College. In a sense that trip feels like a lifetime ago, but in another sense, I feel like I am there, now, as I look at this painting. I can feel the sun and smell the wind. These are massive structures, as you can tell by the door height. It's easy to imagine how the fictional but in many ways real Don Quixote thought they were monsters.

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