Puerto Lápice Local Custom Tips by keeweechic

The Osborne Bull

Travelling through La Mancha country you will suddenly come across large silhouetted bulls standing at around 14metres high, usually on a bit of a hill for effect. Known as the Osborne Bull because it was started originally by a company called Osborne Sherry who started to put them around the countryside in 1956 to advertise their Brandy de Jerez. When a law was passed to ban this kind of advertising, there was an outcry to removing the bulls altogether and so just the advertising was blacked out.

Don Quixote

Don Quixote can be found everywhere around this little town – silhouettes, statues, paintings – after all, he was the one that made it famous or at least his creator did.