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Movies Made in Spain visited Bardenas Reales (Navarra), Sos del Rey Católico and the Monastery La Oliva in Novemeber 2025.

Movies Made in Spain visited a number of locations in October 2025. Here are some of the locations and films or series .

Teruel

Mirambel, (Land and Freedom) In Praise of Older Women (1997) Torre Santa Ana

Guadalajara

Monastery at Lupiana (Rowing with the wind (1988), The El Escorial Conspiracy (2008)) Widows’ Nest (1977)

Armuña de Tajuña, Telefonica Telepuerto (La Fortuna)

Iriepal main square, Peña Hueva (Spartacus 1960)

Uceda: iron bridge and church Santa Maria de la Varga Breakout (1975)

El Casar Villa Rides (1968)

Madrid

Alcalá de Henares Cuartel de Sementales, (The room next door (2025) antiguo hospital de San Lucas, la casa de Atilano Casado (Daryl Dixon). Calle Bedel (The Liberator (2013)

Fresno de Torote Asunción church Guns of the 7 (1969)

Talamanca de Jarama La Cartuja(The Four Musketeers (1973), Conan the Barbarian (1982) Black Arrow (1985), The Return of the Musketeers (1989), Killer Tongue (1996), Dollar for the Dead (1998), The Bridge of San Luis Rey (2004), Goya’s Ghosts (2006), The Conspiracy (2008), Vampyres (2015), The Man Who Killed Don Quixote (2018).

Antigua fabrica de Harinas. Cry Onion (1975)

Torrelaguna Main square & church Hot Blood (1989)

Buitrago de Lozoya, Aldea Santillana, Puentes Viejas, (Yerma (2017)

30 years after filming Land and Freedom, the village of Mirambel (Teruel) will be celebrating the anniversary on the 8th November 2025, recreating scenes from the film in the places where they were shot.

In March 2025 we were in Barcelona and added photos of locations such as Santa María del Mar, Casa Vicens, Plaza Real, Palau Güell, the Gothic cathedral and Carrer Bisbe.

In October 2024 we visited Catalonia, where we added photos of locations from the films Saving Isis, Second Origin, El Greco, and the series Bladerunner 2099 and Doctor Death.

www.moviesmadeinspain.com visited the province of Granada in November and December 2023:

Here are the locations we visited and the films to which they correspond.

NB We already visited the castles of La Calahorra and Guadix, and Loja on a previous occasion.

Cuevas de Almagruz, Orce castle and  Baza Arab Baths The Disciple (2010)

Gorafe Desert Casa de Cristal (Black Mirror) The Legion (2020) & Intergalactic (series)

Guadix: Azucarera: Duck You Sucker/ A Fistful of Dynamite (1971)

Guadix Railway Station: North West Frontier (1959) A Few Dollars More (1965) Doctor Zhivago (1965) A Talent for Loving (1969) The Land Raiders (1969) Deathwork/ The Guns of April Morning (1971) Good Morning Babylon (1987) Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989)

Cathedral & Plaza Mayor: Duck You Sucker/ A Fistful of Dynamite (1971) Karol: the Pope, the Man (2006)

Guadix Casas Cuevas: Action of the Tiger (1957) Emerald City Holiday in Spain/Scent of Mystery (1960) The Story of David (1976) The White Room (1989)

Railway Station La Calahorra-Ferreira (abandoned) set Flagstone A Few Dollars More (1965) The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1966) Once Upon a Time in the West (1968) 100 Rifles (1969) A Talent for Loving (1969) Blindman (1971) Red Sun (1971) Pancho Villa (1972) A Man Called Noon (1973) My Name is Nobody (1973) Blood Money/ The Stranger and the Gunfighter (1974) Rustlers’ Rhapsody (1985) Good Morning Babylon (1987) Neat and Tidy (1987)

Statues: Clint Eastwood, Sean Connery, Assassins’ Creed, House of the Dragon (La Calahorra)

Alquife… mining village: A Perfect Day (2014)

City of Granada

Alhambra: Puerta de Vino, ‘Jardines del Partal,’ ‘patio de los leones.’ (Holiday in Spain 1960)

‘The Tower of Prince Ismail’ ‘Patio de los Aljibes’, ‘Torre de las Armas’ and the ‘Torre del Homenaje’, ‘Torres de Alcázaba’, ‘Palacio del Partal’ (also known as the ‘Torre de las Damas’). Oratorio,  ‘Sala de las Dos Hermanas’. ‘Patio de los Leones’  ‘Mirador de Lindajara’. ‘Patio de los Arrayanes’. The 7th Voyage of Sinbad (1958) Decameron Nights (1953) Honeymoon (1959) Cervantes (1967) Christopher Columbus (1985) The Most Dangerous Man in the World (1988) Little Ashes (2008)

Church of San Nicolás, Hotel Alhambra Palace, gate park ‘Carmen de los Mártires,’ Alhambra Palace Hotel (It started With a Kiss (1959)

Granada’s cathedral, Plaza de las Pasiegas & cloister (Hotel AC) Convento Santa Paula: Wilde (1997)

Ermita Nuestra Señora de las Nieves, Las Gabias: The Singer Not the Song (1961)

Casa Grande Padul: The Long Duel (1967)

Orgiva: Puente de los 7 Ojos The Last Run (1971)

http://www.moviesmadeinspain.com has published an article about Spanish actor Simón Andreu is the British media.

https://theleader.info/2023/01/04/and-the-winner-is-simon-andreu/

Like Earth, Movies Made in Spain is in a state of constant evolution. Like the Universe, it is constantly expanding.

Here are some of the articles that have recently been updated with new information and/or photos:

SERIES


The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon
Blade Runner 2099
Seven Dials
Cobra Kai
The Night Manager
Catch You Later
Three Body Problem
Pluribus
The Girlfriend
The Split: Barcelona
La Palma
Young Sherlock
NCIS
This City is Ours
Kill Jackie

Andor

FILMS

One Glorious Sunset (2020)

Granada Nights (2020)

Land and Freedom (1995)

Once Upon a Time in Spain (2024)

The Penguin Lessons (2024)

Damsel (2024)

The Room Next Door (2025)

The Gentleman (2025)

The Fantastic Four: First Steps (2025)

The Beast (2025)

Journey to You (2025)

The Woods Encounters: The Movie (2025)

People We Meet on Vacation (2025)

The Map that Leads to You (2025)

Day Drinker (2026)

Movies Made in Spain Quiz

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1 Where did Spielberg build a World War II prisoner of war camp? (1987)

2 In which Lauren Bacall film does Granada province represent India? (1959)

3 In which Yul Brynner film does Zaragoza represent Egypt? (1959)

4 Where did Cary Grant find a Spanish guerrilla headquarters? (1957)

5 Which town represents Troy in a Katherine Hepburn film? (1971)

6 Which Spanish castle represents Istanbul and appears in Game of Thrones? (1986)

7 Which Spanish city was Berlin in The Battle of Britain? (1969)

8 Which Spanish castle was Camelot? (1967)

9 Which house, rented by John Lennon, is now a museum? (1966)

10 Which Spanish castle appears in the cartoon version of Lord of the Rings? (1978)

11 Which town, destroyed in the Spanish Civil War, was used in a Spiderman film? (2019)

12 In which castle did Al Pacino invite Adam Sandler to supper? (2011)

13 In which Spanish city did Johnny Depp visit a bookshop? (1999)

14 Which town was Nottingham in a film with Sean Connery and Audrey Hepburn? (1976)

15 In which bullring did Dwayne Johnson fight a bull? (2021)

16 Which Spanish castle can be seen behind Orlando Bloom’s French home in a film about the Crusades? (2005)

17 Which Spanish monument appears in a Star Wars film? (2002)

18 Which town did Steve McQueen and Dustin Hoffman march through as prisoners? (1993)

19 Which bridge did a French serial killer cross? (2006)

20 Which Spanish museum appears in a James Bond film? (1999)