Misplaced Pages

El Toboso

Article snapshot taken from Wikipedia with creative commons attribution-sharealike license. Give it a read and then ask your questions in the chat. We can research this topic together.
This article is about a town Castile-La Mancha in Spain. For the municipality in the Philippines, see Toboso, Negros Occidental.
This article needs additional citations for verification. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed.
Find sources: "El Toboso" – news · newspapers · books · scholar · JSTOR (May 2024) (Learn how and when to remove this message)
Municipality in Castile-La Mancha, Spain
El Toboso
Municipality
Coat of arms of El TobosoCoat of arms
El Toboso is located in SpainEl TobosoEl TobosoLocation in Spain
Coordinates: 39°31′5″N 2°59′53″W / 39.51806°N 2.99806°W / 39.51806; -2.99806
Country Spain
Autonomous community Castile-La Mancha
ProvinceToledo
ComarcaMancha Alta de Toledo
MunicipalityEl Toboso
Judicial districtQuintanar de la Orden
Government
 • MayorMarciano Ortega Molina (2007)
Area
 • Total144.19 km (55.67 sq mi)
Elevation635 m (2,083 ft)
Population
 • Total1,783
 • Density12/km (32/sq mi)
Demonym(s)Tobeseños, Tobosinos, Tobosescos
Time zoneUTC+1 (CET)
 • Summer (DST)UTC+2 (CEST)
Postal code45820
Websiteeltoboso.es

El Toboso is a town and municipality located in the Mancha Alta de Toledo comarca, province of Toledo, Castile-La Mancha, central Spain. According to the 2009 data, El Toboso has a total population of 2,219 inhabitants. The economy of the town is based on wine production and cattle, and sheep.

El Toboso is famous for appearing in the novel Don Quixote by the Spanish writer Miguel de Cervantes, as the town in which the fictional character Dulcinea lives. The town also appears in Graham Greene's tribute Monsignor Quixote, where the heroes are a priest (supposedly a descendant of Cervantes's character), and the recently deposed Communist mayor of the town in the post-Franco era.

Main sights

  • The Catholic church of San Antonio Abad, built in the 15th century.
  • The convent of Trinitarias Recoletas, from the 17th century.
  • The Cervantine Museum.
  • The Museum of Dulcinea
  • The lake of La Nava.
View of El Toboso town in 1823 by Edward Hawke Locker
Monument to Don Quixote and Dulcinea.

References

  1. Municipal Register of Spain 2018. National Statistics Institute.
Municipalities in the province of Toledo
Castile-La Mancha


Stub icon

This article about a location in the autonomous community of Castilla–La Mancha, Spain is a stub. You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it.

Categories: