Reading the amazing article about Bardenas, I realized Terry Gilliam had been filming a Quijote version in Bardenas.
This desertic landscape has been shooted (filmed) in many movies. But I always recognise Bardenas in "Acción Mutante", where the desert is converted into "Planeta Axturias", a science fictional future planet.
That's the reason why I can't imagine Bardenas as La Mancha. La Mancha always has reminded me flat wheat countryside. Suddenly, mountains, shadows, and an absolute lack of vegetation (Bardena) changes the history into a futurist way, into an timeless non space. Is there where Quixote became an universal history.
If only Terry Gillian had met Pinturitas!!