Alcázar de San Juan

Alcázar de San Juan or simply Alcázar is a town in the province of Ciudad Real, in the plain of La Mancha named for its Moorish fortress, which was afterwards garrisoned by the knights of St John. Much of the action of Cervantes' Don Quixote takes place around Alcázar. The village of El Toboso was the home of the Lady Dulcinea del Toboso; Argamasilla de Alba is declared by tradition to be the birthplace of the original of Don Quixote himself.