The time when all the leisure that we could enjoy passed through platforms such as Netflix, Amazon Prime or icasasdeapuestas.com. Despite everything, variants of the Covid involved, or various restrictions depending on the autonomous community, the National tourism has been in for several months continuous climb and with plans to continue climbing as the good weather seasons arrive, seeking to resume the figures from before the pandemic.
Within this rise in national tourism, it has been observed that more and more travelers choose visit the places where series and movies were recorded of the most recognized in the history of cinema and television.
And in case you don’t know where to travel within Spain for the next bank holiday or on your next vacation, we’ll tell you about some movie sites without leaving our borders.
Movie sites to visit in Spain
Spain is one of the favorite scenarios of the American and European audiovisual world since it has very diverse natural places. If the production company wants a desert, it can count on the Tabernas desert, in Almería. If you want dunes, Cádiz has them and if it’s about mountains, the north has the perfect landscape, literally, from the cinema.
Of all the regions of the country, Andalusia It is the one that wins in terms of the number of filmings that have been recorded within its community, and it is that, in almost all Andalusian cities at some point in recent years, some great Hollywood production has been filmed.
In Seville, more specifically, in its Plaza de España, classic film productions such as “Star Wars” or “Lawrence of Arabia” have been shot. More current movies like “carmine or bust” Y “Carmina and Amen” were shot in the south polygon, also among others, “Eight Basque surnames” features a scene on the Triana bridge. In Osasuna, a Sevillian town, scenes from the iconic series were recorded in its bullring Game of Thrones.
Without leaving Andalusia, in Cádiz, on the Caleta beach, Pierce Brosnan and Halle Berry shot sequences of one of the most applauded installments of the 007 saga, “die another day”.
Thanks to the population of Tabernas in Almería, the Western cinema of the 60s/70s is what it is. There a small town was born by and for the cinema which they baptized Fort Bravo, which is one of the survivors of the towns that were created for the filming of the old West. Actors such as Charles Bronson, Bud Spencer, Terence Hill, Clint Eastwood, Sean Connery or Harrison Ford, among many others, have filmed there. The last shoot needed more than 2,000 extras in 2014 to bring “Exodus” to the big screen.
The Canary Islands for the audiovisual sector have become one of the first places to choose when filming, thanks to the tax benefits offered by the Canarian government. This has been noted in the 50% increase in the productions carried out on the islands. One of the last (which was widely accepted by critics and the public) was the El Hierro series starring Candela Peña.
Despite being the most unknown island, tourist visits have increased by 40% since the series premiered.
Chinchón in Madrid has been appearing on the big screen since the days of José Sacristán and Concha Velasco.
Among its streets and squares, “The Magnificent 7”, “La Bella Otero”, “Around the World in 80 Days” or Marvel’s “Eternal” have been recorded.
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