The Alchemist, the Hero of the Story

Santiago is the name of a boy. He lives in spain, he's a shepherd. Now, when does this story happen? We don't know. It's not really in a specific his time period. There 're no telephones, there 're no cars, only horses, the camels. So it's, it's older. It's before cars, but after guns. But we can kind of guess it's after the riconquista. It's after the christians took back spain, conquered spain.