400th Anniversary of publication of Don Quijotte

Number by catalogue:  Yvert: 2474   Scott: 2361  

Perforation type: 13 ¼x13 ¼

Subject:

1,2 euro. Don Quichotte* and Sancho Pansa, the windmill on a background

Additional:

*Don Quichotte (Spanish: Don Quijote), fully titled El ingenioso hidalgo Don Quijote de la Mancha ("The Ingenious Hidalgo Don Quixote of La Mancha") is an early novel written by Spanish author Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra. Cervantes created a fictional origin for the story based upon a manuscript by the invented Moorish historian, Cide Hamete Benengeli.

Published in two volumes a decade apart, Don Quixote is the most influential work of literature to emerge from the Spanish Golden Age and perhaps the entire Spanish literary canon. As a founding work of modern Western literature, it regularly appears at the top of lists of the greatest works of fiction ever published.