Barcelona beach on the night of San Juan, Spain

December 1615. Cervantes produces his finest work, publishing the second part of "Don Quixote". After giving his knight new adventures in La Mancha and by the River Ebro, he sends them to Barcelona. They arrived at the beach on Midsummer night and "saw the sea which they had not seen before". Although they visited this city "unique in its location and beauty", Don Quixote was drawing slowly to his close, until finally vanquished and falling on that very beach. "The fact is" –as Martín de Riquer puts it– "the end of Don Quixote is at hand". And his creator’s too.