In the middle of Brussels’s city center stands a pair of statues unmistakably portraying the famous Don Quixote and Sancho Panza. Located between Place d’Espagne and Boulevard de l’Imperatrice, the sculpture is a replica of the Monument to Miguel de Cervantes in Madrid, created in 1929 by Lorenzo Coullaut Valera.
Though what it commemorates is up to speculation, it is supposed that the Brussels version was installed here in the 1990s in remembrance of the first publication of the novel outside the Iberian Peninsula, in Brussels in 1607.
