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 of Corvo had ceded the structures to the municipality for five years. The windmills are located at the isolated southern tip of Corvo, opposite the airfield on the small inclined parcel known as Ponta Negra, near the small light of Ponta Negra. The group consists of three, conical windmills, built from masonry stone: two plastered and painted white, while the other remains in a natural state. It is covered in conical rooftop that rotates, made of wood, from which springs the main shaft and sail axis. The base of the windmills consists of circular basalt stone, broken by small symmetrical staircase. The