Miguel Esteban, a locality in the province of Toledo with a little over 4,500 inhabitants, in central Spain, has presented a study that, according to its authors, provides new evidence to identify the municipality as the 'place in La Mancha' mentioned by Miguel de Cervantes at the beginning of 'Don Quixote'. The research, presented this Friday at the Casa de Castilla-La Mancha in Madrid, is based on documentation found in parish and military order archives, where hidalgos mentioned in the Cervantine work appear. The work argues that characters and episodes from 'Don Quixote' and 'Persiles' were inspired by the lives and adventures of the Acuña, Carrión, Villaseñor, and Ludeña families, active in the region during the 16th century. According to municipal sources, the coincidences include references to windmills, duels with lances, false knights, beatings of priests, deaths from melancholy, and orphaned noble nieces. The proximity of the town to El Toboso—about 5 kilometers away—and the historical presence of hidalgos between the 14th and 17th centuries reinforce the hypothesis. Although for decades Miguel Esteban had little support in Cervantine debates, recent contributions from thinkers and writers such as Ciriaco Morón Arroyo and José María Merino have reopened the discussion on the geographical origin of the mythical 'place in La Mancha'. 'Don Quixote' is one of the greatest works of universal literature. It narrates the adventures of Alonso Quijano, a hidalgo who goes mad from reading chivalric novels and decides to become a knight-errant, calling himself Don Quixote, to restore justice and honor in the world, accompanied by his pragmatic squire, Sancho Panza, while confusing reality with fantasy (such as windmills for giants), living comic and tragic adventures.