Tilting at windmills Don Quixote fights windmills that he imagines are giants. A relevant portion of the novel states: Cervantes wrote "Don Quixote" in two parts, published respectively in 1605 and 1615, during the latter part of a historical period known as the Spanish Golden Age. During this age, Spain pursued military conquests in parts of Europe and conquered large parts of the Americas, which brought great riches to the country and inspired a flowering of the arts. In La Mancha, Castilla, Cervantes' setting for the novel, there still exist some examples of the era's windmills that Don Quixote found in his adventures.
Windmills in the Isle of Man the 1870s. The tower was diameter at the base and high The six storey tower was reduced to a two storey base in the 1960s and the mill is now a house conversion. Windmills in the Isle of Man The Isle of Man has had a number of windmills over the centuries. They were mostly threshing mills, with a few corn mills. NX 398 012 This small mill at Andreas was a threshing mill built c.1870. It was derelict in 1952. In 2007, it was proposed to add the mill to the Isle of Man's Protected Buildings Register. A skeletal