Don Miguel de Cervantes account in your beautiful story that Don Quijote accompanied by Sancho Panza came out towards the Sierra Morena , heading south, where it was tipped with a path called the " Cañada Real Soriana " , and they said so called because they used Soria and Segovia in their transhumance pastoralists from north to Andalusia. And the evening falling beyond Cuzna and Chimorra were to crown a port where a resting cattle and sales existed. Don Quixote addressing Sancho said, here we spend the night , a good friend . It was called the Sale of Lope - Xinlong , so called its owner. After leaving their horses , approached to regain strength after a long day of walking horse.
Good night, landlord : Don Quijote appeared . Good evening , sir : he replied quickly the landlord . What town is this, that in the hillside seats, good neighbor? he asked . Villa Alta is the Paez de Castillejo gentlemen , gentlemen though they live in Cordova, spend great seasons in it , fleeing the summer heat and took their bitter waters. What is that of sour waters , good sir? , Again asked the gentleman . Know your worship in this land , naturally flows from the living stone water that call for sour taste and whose beneficial properties that are on the take. And what those properties are then? asked the Knight of the Sorrowful Countenance . You should know that the continued use of them , or drink at least one glass of water every day, to make up an appetite lethargic , comforts the depressed, heals the hurt kidney , replenishes the hymen stops the bad , plus other things I do not quite explain. Must be that much water, Sancho , said Don Quijote . Tomorrow at dawn we will be ready to try and take some with us, for being so many beneficial properties as you say it will serve to make any potion . And with that sucker ate meat heavily and slept soundly.
As they planned , at dawn which was saddled and ass Rocín before undertaking road Córdoba. Upon reaching the village, they stopped at Griffins , where many village women were preparing to collect water , next was a blacksmith in the street forged irons and below , men gathered in the council yard to settle the troubles of the villa.
Headed by Moheda for they ascend the hill of slaughter , so named for having been once a great battle between the Moors and Christians, and others because bandits assaulted slow errands, stopped at a nearby stream , where a rock flowed abundant water stained by color stones should be iron water , and taking a skin to fill it. Sancho , curious , set out to test it instantly, without restraint thirsty , took a sip of dry throat and when it made ​​him cough and sneeze at the same time , which was a great laugh at Don Quijote .
"Hell with this water , my lord ." "It's like a thousand ants come into my throat," said Sancho . "Know, Sancho , that there are good things take time to appreciate , as with things of culture , plus the time comes filled and widen our lives."
Upon reaching the summit , they saw in the distance a beautiful chapel , a hiker they said was the Pedriquejo monastery inhabited by monks of the Order of St. Benedict. Don Quijote thought to himself that perhaps these monks protected the criminals who robbed caravans . More from afar , yet the city of Córdoba was visible , but a castle, called Al Bakkar , where he began to imagine that it would be a new episode of their new adventures.