Television From 'La Casa de Papel' to 'Hierro': tell me what series you like and I'll tell you where it was shot
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Las Palmas de Gran Canaria is not only an attractive destination for any traveler throughout the year.
Also a perfect setting for film studios and television series.
Large national and international productions
have been filmed in its streets
and its emblematic buildings can be recognized on the big screen alongside top-level actors such as
Brad Pitt or Uma Thurman
.
The latest big star to join the list is Jennifer Lopez, who is filming her next film, The Mother,
in the Canarian capital , in
which she stars alongside
Gael García Bernal, Joseph Fiennes
and Omari Hardwick
.
Filming had to be postponed at the beginning of the year due to an outbreak of Covid, but it has restarted again.
The Literary Cabinet of Las Palmas.
This
thriller
is the
largest Netflix film production for this 2022
in all of Europe, and is shot in the streets of the historic neighborhoods of
Vegueta and Triana,
with renowned places in the city such as the Literary Cabinet and the Alameda de Colón, which will be transformed for the film in Havana and Afghanistan.
There are many attractions in the city that Hollywood has not been able to resist, and to discover them, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria has
two cinema routes
to tour the city through the locations of great films recorded over the years .
Moment of the film starring Jennifer Lopez.
On the first route, which runs through the interior of the metropolis and tourist enclaves such as
Plaza Santa Ana,
you can see, for example, Plaza Cairasco and the Literary Cabinet, one of the settings where
Brad Pitt and Marion Cotillard
shot their film
Aliados
in 2015. .
A building, the Cabinet, which will also be recognized by those who have seen the Spanish
Palm Trees in the Snow
, with Macarena García and Mario Casas.
Brad Pitt and Marion Cotillard recorded 'Aliados' in Las Palmas.
Actresses
Uma Thurman
and Anna Sophia Robb also passed through its salons in
Blackwood.
Among the streets of the Canarian city you can also see the places where films such as the Spanish films
El Niño
and
One Hundred Years of Forgiveness
were filmed , which also opted for the charm of
historic neighborhoods
for their settings.
The second route, which passes through the port area and the surroundings of
Las Canteras
beach , includes some movie buff spots such as the pier and Santa Catalina Park, the start of the route.
The Gaumont company recorded
in 1909 the first images of the city,
with a panoramic view of Puerto de la Luz and the
Santa Catalina pier.
The beach of Las Canteras in Las Palmas.Tony Hernández
Along the route you can also visit La Puntilla beach or Confital beach, key locations for the filming of
Moby Dick
in the 1950s .
Directed by John Huston and starring
Gregory Peck, it
is considered one of the best films in the history of cinema.
The Spanish
That looks like an accident
, with Carmen Maura, also chose La Puntilla beach as the setting.
For its part, the comedy
How to Survive a Farewell
, with actresses like
Úrsula Corberó and Natalia de Molina
, opted for the Las Canteras promenade.
The Moby Dick scale model of La Puntilla beach.
Furthermore, Las Palmas has its own
International Film Festival
which, since its inauguration in 2000, has explored the work of filmmakers who move geographically and aesthetically on the periphery of the more conventional industry.
The festival bets on
films without a commercial vocation,
which move away from conventions and red carpets.
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