henares

Updated: June 12, 2025

It gives a point, too, to what he says in more than one place about families that have once been great and have tapered away until they have come to nothing, like a pyramid. It was the case of his own. He was born at Alcala de Henares and baptised in the church of Santa Maria Mayor on the 9th of October, 1547.

Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra - The History of Don Quixote, Volume 1, Part 01