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Given a compact Riemann surface \(M\) and a principal bundle \(P\) over \(M\) with structure group a complact Lie group \(G\), in [Monopoles, minimal surfaces and algebraic curves, Sem. Sci. OTAV 105, Presses Univ. Montreal (1987; Zbl 0644.53059)], \textit{N. Hitchin} investigates the self-duality equations on \(P\), proving that the moduli space of the solutions to these equations is obtained as a hyper-Kähler quotient and the smooth part of this moduli space becomes a hyper-Kähler manifold, denoted by \({\mathcal M}_-(M,G,P)\). In this paper, for any compact symmetric pair \((G,K,\sigma)\) and any reduced subbundle \(Q\) to \(K\), the author constructs a totally geodesic submanifold \({\mathcal M}_-(M,G/_K,Q)\) of \({\mathcal M}_-(M,G,P)\) with \(2\dim{\mathcal M}_-(M, G/_K,Q)= \dim{\mathcal M}_-(M,G,P)\). Moreover, denoting by \((J_1,J_2,J_3)\) the three complex structures on \({\mathcal M}_-(M,G,P)\) which satisfy the quaternionic relation, he proves that \({\mathcal M}_-(M,G/_K,Q)\) turns out to be a complex Lagrangian submanifold of \({\mathcal M}_-(M,G,P)\), i.e. it is \(J_1\)-invariant and totally real with respect to \(J_2\), \(J_3\). Finally, the author states analogs to the above results, starting from the self-duality equations with respect to compact \(k\)-symmetric pairs \((G,K,\sigma)\), for any \(k> 2\). For the entire collection see [Zbl 0927.00036].