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The Epic Road of Don Quixote
Ride out with Don Quixote and Sancho Panza from “somewhere in La Mancha” across the heart of Spain, past windmills, mountain passes, and country inns, all the way to the Mediterranean at Barcelona and home again. This is the long road, and you cover every mile of it on your own everyday walks, wherever you are.
- Distance
- 905 miles (1,456 km)
- Waypoints
- 23
- Illustrated by
- Pedro de Rojas
Included with StoryTrek+, or buy this journey on its own for $7.99 and keep it.
905 miles across the heart of Spain.
Cervantes leaves parts of Don Quixote’s route deliberately vague, so StoryTrek follows a plausible reading of the real places the novel names, with distances between stops estimated from modern geography. The route runs 905 miles, with 23 waypoints drawn from the story. Every walk, run, or treadmill session your phone records carries you farther across Spain.
How long the journey takes
| You walk | You reach the end in |
|---|---|
| 3 miles a day (5 km) | about 10 months |
| 5 miles a day (8 km) | about 6 months |
| 10 miles a day (16 km) | about 13 weeks |
| 15 miles a day (24 km) | about 9 weeks |
A 10,000-step day is roughly 4 to 5 miles, which gets you to the end in about 7 months.
From La Mancha to the sea and back.
The route begins “somewhere in La Mancha,” where Cervantes opens the novel, and follows the knight-errant and his squire, Sancho Panza, across windmill-dotted plains, through rugged mountain passes, and from one country inn to the next. It carries on to the estate of the Duke and Duchess and out to the Mediterranean at Barcelona, then turns for home.
Each waypoint pairs a restored postcard from Pedro de Rojas’s Don Quixote series, first published between 1905 and 1908, with a moment from the novel. Reach one, and the road ahead opens. For a shorter route through the best-known episodes, try The Road of Don Quixote.
Walk it together
Start a company and ride out with a friend, a book club, or a whole office. Everyone walks their own miles, wherever they live, and the group travels the same long road to Barcelona and back.
Ride out from La Mancha
Saddle up.
Spain is waiting.
Download StoryTrek, choose The Epic Road of Don Quixote, and take your first step out of La Mancha.