`  == Not a very good translation ==  Hi, I think that the tranlation of Quixote's begining:  :En un lugar de la Mancha, de cuyo nombre no quiero acordarme, no ha mucho tiempo que vivía un hidalgo de los de lanza en astillero, adarga antigua, rocín flaco y galgo corredor.  :``In some village in La Mancha, whose name I do not care to recall, there dwelt not so long ago a gentleman of the type wont to keep an unused lance, an old shield, a greyhound for racing, and a skinny old horse.``  is not very accurate, maybe it'd be better something like:  :``Somewhere (or In some Place) in La Mancha, whose name I do not want/wish to recall, there dwelt not so long ago a gentleman of the type wont to keep an unused lance, ancient shield, coursing greyhound and a lean hack``.  or the Project Gutemberg one:  :``In a village of La Mancha, the name of which I have no desire to call to mind, there lived not long since one of those gentlemen that keep a lance in the lance-rack, an old buckler, a lean hack, and a greyhound for coursing.``  I think one important detail is when applying ``lugar`` to Mancha, it really means ``a place`` in English, because in that epoch La Mancha was not a very populated zone, as to infer it is a village. Also I think ``antigua`` is better tranlated as ``ancient`` instead ``old``.   `