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Puerto Lapice, tiny town in Ciudad Real province of Castile La Mancha where Don Quixote said to have been dubbed knight by the local innkeeper.

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Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Volume I, Chapter II: Which treats of the first sally the ingenious don Quixote made from home

" Writers there are who say the first adventure he met with was that of
Puerto Lapice; others say it was that of the windmills; but what I have
ascertained on this point, and what I have found written in the annals of
La Mancha, is that he was on the road all day, and towards nightfall his
hack and he found themselves dead tired and hungry, when, looking all
around to see if he could discover any castle or shepherd's shanty where
he might refresh himself and relieve his sore wants, he perceived not far
out of his road an inn, which was as welcome as a star guiding him to the
portals, if not the palaces, of his redemption; and quickening his pace
he reached it just as night was setting in."

Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Volume I, Chapter VIII: Of the good fortune which the valiant don Quixote had in the terrible and undreamt-of adventure of the windmills, with other occurrences worthy to be fitly recorded

"God order it as he may," said Sancho Panza, and helping him to rise got
him up again on Rocinante, whose shoulder was half out; and then,
discussing the late adventure, they followed the road to Puerto Lapice,
for there, said Don Quixote, they could not fail to find adventures in
abundance and variety, as it was a great thoroughfare."

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