El Toboso

This article is about a town Castile-La Mancha in Spain. For the municipality in the Philippines, see Toboso, Negros Occidental.

El Toboso
—  Municipality  —
El Toboso Location in Spain
Coordinates: 39°31′5″N 2°59′53″W
Country	Spain
Autonomous community	Castile-La Mancha
Province	Toledo
Comarca	Mancha Alta de Toledo
Judicial district	Quintanar de la Orden
Government
• Mayor	Marciano Ortega Molina (2007)
Area
• Total	144.19 km2 (55.67 sq mi)
Elevation	635 m (2,083 ft)
Population (2009)
• Total	2,219
• Density	15/km2 (40/sq mi)
Demonym	Tobeseños, Tobosinos, Tobosescos
Time zone	CET (UTC+1)
• Summer (DST)	CEST (UTC+2)
Postal code	45820
Official language(s)
Website	Official website

Monument to Don Quixote and Dulcinea.

El Toboso is a town and municipality located in the province of Toledo, 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.

External links (in English)

• La Casa de la Torre A 17th century manor converted into a charming hotel with a Quixotic ambiance. Rooms devoted to Cervantes' works, with special protagonism to our hero Don Quixote and its literature.

External links (in Spanish)

• El Toboso, cuna de Dulcinea, Town Hall of El Toboso.
• El Toboso, la Casa de la Torre, some interesting material.