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Tabernas is a
The Tabernas Desert, because of its similarities to North American deserts as seen in western movies, to northern Africa and to the Arabian deserts, and because of its lunar landscape, served from the 1950s onwards for the shooting of many films needing such landscapes (e.g. the
Cinema Studios Fort Bravo Texas Hollywood
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- Sistema de Información Multiterritorial de Andalucía *
- Diputación Provincial de Almería Municipalities in the Province of Almería {{Almería-geo-stub
municipality
A municipality is usually a single administrative division having municipal corporation, corporate status and powers of self-government or jurisdiction as granted by national and regional laws to which it is subordinate.
The term ''municipality' ...
of Almería province, in the autonomous community
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of Andalusia
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, Spain, as well as the name of the principal town of the municipality. It is located on the edge of the famous Tabernas Desert
The Tabernas Desert () is a desert located within Spain's south-eastern province of Almería. It is in the interior, about north of the provincial capital Almería, in the Tabernas municipality in Andalusia. It is the only desert in Europe, ...
, the filming location of many feature films and TV series. The three film sets in the area: Fort Bravo, Western Leone
Western Leone is a Western (genre), Western-style theme park in the province of Province of Almería, Almeria, Andalusia (Spain). Located at the 378.9 km mark on the Autovía A-92, A-92 motorway, it is the smallest of three such theme parks i ...
, Mini Hollywood attract a modest number of tourists.
It is the site of Moorish castle ruins, an old church, and a refurbished Teatro Municipal.
Demographics
Cinema
The Tabernas Desert, because of its similarities to North American deserts as seen in western movies, to northern Africa and to the Arabian deserts, and because of its lunar landscape, served from the 1950s onwards for the shooting of many films needing such landscapes (e.g. the Spaghetti Western
The spaghetti Western is a broad subgenre of Western films produced in Europe. It emerged in the mid-1960s in the wake of Sergio Leone's filmmaking style and international box-office success. The term was used by foreign critics because most o ...
s), making the area world-renowned.
Notable people
* Encarnación Magaña - In 1942 she was the last woman fromAlmería
Almería (, , ) is a city and municipalities in Spain, municipality of Spain, located in Andalusia. It is the capital of the province of Almería, province of the same name. It lies in southeastern Iberian Peninsula, Iberia on the Mediterranean S ...
to be executed after the Spanish Civil War. In 2020 a street was named after her, making it the first street in Tabernas to be named after a woman.See also
*List of municipalities in Almería
Almería (province), Almería is a provinces of Spain, province in the Autonomous communities of Spain, autonomous community of Andalusia, Spain, which is divided into 103 Municipalities of Spain, municipalities. Spanish census, Almería is t ...
References
External links
Cinema Studios Fort Bravo Texas Hollywood
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- Sistema de Información Multiterritorial de Andalucía *
- Diputación Provincial de Almería Municipalities in the Province of Almería {{Almería-geo-stub