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La Leyenda de la Mancha

1998 studio album by Mägo de Oz

Manuscripts, fine bindings, an engraving plate and preserved performance ephemera
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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMay 30, 2026
Entity authorityQ2251526 ↗
Source-derived summary

La Leyenda de La Mancha (The Legend of La Mancha) is the third studio album by Spanish folk metal band Mägo de Oz, released in 1998. It is a concept album, specifically a modern-day retelling of the Spanish classic Don Quixote. The song "Molinos de Viento" is one of Mägo de Oz's biggest hits and is often the concluding song in concerts.

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Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “La Leyenda de la Mancha” is 1998 studio album by Mägo de Oz. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Leyenda, Mancha and studio, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewBest approached as a cultural-object dossier: authorship and date matter, but circulation and reception often explain the wider significance. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1998—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. For this dossier, Leyenda, Mancha and studio is the immediate research focus.
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Why this record matters

The phrase “1998 studio album by Mägo de Oz” supplies a clear boundary for inquiry. It also exposes the unanswered questions: who defined that boundary, when it became stable and which sources sit outside it.

Evidence profile

Object files, edition statements, performance records and contemporary criticism preserve different stages of the work’s history. The source revision retrieved here is dated May 30, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q2251526. The first chronological checks are 1998.

Critical limits

Rights, attribution and provenance may remain disputed even when a general reference summary presents a stable account. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

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  2. Expand the search: follow La Leyenda de la Mancha primary sources, La Leyenda de la Mancha archive and Leyenda research across catalogues and specialist indexes.
  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

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This entry incorporates text from “La Leyenda de la Mancha” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.