As if neither man wanted to live in a world without the other, Miguel de Cervantes and William Shakespeare died on the same date in 1616. Or not exactly. They didn’t actually succumb on the same day.

Nearly 400 years since the death of Spain's most famous writer, scientists are using ground-penetrating radar to search for Miguel de Cervantes' body. It's believed to be buried in the foundation or ...

Henry Cervantes was a Fresno-born, 19-year-old son of Mexican farmworkers when the Navy told him in 1942 that he could not fight for his country. An enlistment officer sent him home, saying the Navy ...

It was Miguel de Cervantes' dying wish to be buried inside the walls of Madrid's Convento de las Trinitarias Descalzas — the Convent of the Barefoot Trinitarians — where a dozen cloistered nuns still ...

The world of Phillip II sits at the heart of the Golden Century of Spain. Its empire spanned the globe. It was the envy of Europe. Its coffers bulged with silver and gold from the New World. Spanish ...

In Miguel de Cervantes’ book Don Quixote, the would-be knight famously told his companion Sancho Panza, “You don't know much about adventures.” Lucky for us, the author did—and traces of the great ...

A few years ago, Spanish archaeologists sought to find the mortal remains of Miguel de Cervantes, a contemporary of Shakespeare whose Don Quixote introduced the English-speaking world to the phrase ...

HOURS: 11 a.m. to 9 p.m. Tuesday-Saturday, 11 a.m. to 10 p.m. Friday, closed Sunday and Monday In 1976, Roberta Finley followed her family’s entrepreneurial footsteps and opened Cervantes Restaurant & ...

“In order to attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd,” wrote Miguel de Cervantes, the Shakespeare of Spain. And the quest to find his remains has sometimes seemed both, even (dare one say ...

New York City, as a city of immigrants and exiles, can tell the story of many different ethnic communities that have made the city their home. The Statue of Cervantes at New York University’s Willy’s ...