Eight places in Spain that appear in the most famous films of recent years

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The streets and historic neighborhoods of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria are preparing these days to host the filming of

, the Netflix film, which will star Jennifer López, Gael García Berna and Joseph Fiennes, among others: According to the

platform , It is the largest European production that it has in its portfolio for this 2022.

The thousands of charming corners that dot the islands and the rest of Spain have been seducing foreign filmmakers for decades to shoot blockbuster films in our country.

Castles, medieval towns, windmills, churches, mountains, deserts, beaches and natural parks, among other places, have become luxury settings, both for past classics such as

(1962), filmed in Almería and Seville ,

(1965), in Madrid,

(1966), in the desert of Almería, or

(1989), Almería and Granada, as for more current hits, among which

, one of the installments of Star Wars or the last of Terminator.

We review some of these coveted places in Spain that have appeared in all their splendor in successful blockbusters shot

.

The Plaza of Spain (Seville)

Plaza of Spain (Seville).

The spectacular

, large (170 meters in diameter) and semi-elliptical in shape located in the María Luisa park in the Andalusian city, has been the set for series and movies on numerous occasions.

The emblematic place, built in 1929 as one of the main buildings of the Ibero-American Exposition of the same year, was chosen by director George Lucas to shoot some scenes of

in 2002. Specifically, the arrival of Senator Padmé Amidala (Natalie Portman) on the planet Naboo.

The imposing main building of the Plaza is perfectly recognizable when the protagonist walks with another of the actors, Hayden Christensen (in the role of the young Anakin Skywalker), between the arcades of the popular Sevillian enclave.

The Plaza de España also served as the location for

(2012), a film co-starring the irreverent actor Sacha Baron Cohen and Anna Faris, inspired by the play

, written by Saddam Hussein.

The brick building became the presidential palace of an eccentric Middle Eastern leader (Baron Cohen) in the middle of August 2011.

The Castle of San Sebastian (Cadiz)

Castle of San Sebastian, Cadiz.

Pierce Brosnan and Halle Berry walked

around the 1706 fortress, located on a small islet at one end of

(2002), Brosnan's last film in the role of James Bond.

Agent 007's film was set in Havana (Cuba) and its director, Lee Tamahori, thought that

, the

and

were the ideal places to impersonate the Caribbean island .

Castle of Loarre (Huesca)

Orlando Bloom, protagonist of The Kingdom of Heaven, in Loarre.

British director Ridley Scott shot the medieval blockbuster about the Crusades

in 2005 in various locations in Segovia, Ávila and the city of Palma del Río in Córdoba.

But the most important location of the film starring Orlando Bloom, Liam Neeson and Jeremy Irons was the imposing

, in the Huesca town of the same name.

The fortress, located on a promontory, was built in the 11th century and is considered a National Monument.

It is surrounded by a great wall that covers about 10,000 square meters and has a perimeter of 172 meters, in which several semicircular towers rise.

Considered

, many films, series and advertisements have been shot there.

In the case of

the castle can be seen at the beginning and end of the film, since the protagonist, a blacksmith named Balián (Orlando Bloom), was originally from there.

Risco del Paso

beach (

Fuerteventura)

Risco del Paso beach in Fuerteventura.

The paradisiacal beach of Risco del Paso (on the Jandía peninsula, in the south of Fuerteventura) and La Barca make up the spectacular Playa de Sotavento, one of the longest on the Canary Island and a mecca for windsurfers.

(2014) was filmed in this sandbank,

in which Moses separates the waters of the Red Sea in the flight of the Jews from Egypt to the Promised Land.

Christian Bale is Moses in this blockbuster directed by Ridley Scott, which was shot in other places in

, such as the isolated and wild Playa del Cofete, to stand in for the desert of Egypt and Mount Sinai.

Atocha Station (Madrid)

Atocha Station (Madrid).

Paul Greengrass directed

(2007), the third installment in the adventures of agent Jason Bourne (Mat Damon), which was partly shot in

Several of the sequences in which the actor appears show the

, one of the most beautiful in Spain, which stands out for its large 152-meter-long nave with a curved roof and glass façade, made by

, a collaborator of

, and cataloged as a work of art of national nineteenth-century railway architecture.

The sculptures

y

by

at the entrance to the new AVE terminal or its

with 7,200 plants of 260 species that occupies the place that previously housed tracks and platforms, complete the attractions of this place.

Other places in the capital also appear in the film, such as Paseo de la Castellana, Hortaleza street, Virgen de los Peligros street, 10, the

, the

Plaza de Cibeles and the bullring of

Tabernas desert and La isleta del Moro (

Almería)

The Isleta del Moro in the Cabo de Gata-Níjar Natural Park (Almería).

In addition to the streets of Madrid, the

(Almería) was the filming location for

(2019), the latest installment of Terminator, produced by James Cameron and starring Arnold Schwarzenegger, Mackenzie Davis and Linda Hamilton.

Tabernas, the only desert in Europe, is one of the most important cinematographic attractions in Spain.

Some of the most prestigious actors and directors in the world of cinema have passed through its arid landscapes since the 1950s.

For this reason it is known as the

and in it the sets with western towns that, since the end of the 50s, were built by the production companies to shoot the so-called

.

Another setting for this film in Almería was

, a charming fishing village with low, white houses and about 170 inhabitants in the Cabo de Gata-Níjar Natural Park, which in the film would be a Guatemalan town.

the cliffs of Los Gigantes (Tenerife)

Cliff of the giants, Tenerife.

The cliffs, one of the most spectacular landscapes located to the west of the Canary Island, were the filming location for

(2012), the sequel to

, in which the wars and wrath of the gods of Olympus continue. .

Sam Worthington, Liam Neeson and Ralph Fiennes participated in this feature film in which some sequences were filmed with the impressive vertical walls of volcanic rock in the background.

In some areas, the height of the cliffs reaches 600 meters.

The place is a claim for divers, since the seabed, about 30 meters deep, harbors a great natural wealth.

For tourists it is also an ideal place for whale watching.

Historic center of Seville

Seville.

The second installment of

(2000), directed by John Woo and starring Tom Cruise, will go down in history in our country due to the accumulation of cultural and folkloric nonsense that appears in the first bars of the film,

.

The sequences show the special agent Ethan Hunt (Cruise) crossing the streets of the Andalusian city to reach a meeting with his boss.

The shocking thing is that in these streets, the agent has to dodge a Holy Week procession starring several falleras, who throw flowers and greet the public, and the costaleros, who resemble San Fermín runners because of their clothing, before that the steps are devoured by the flames as if they were ninots.

The center of the Andalusian city also once again witnessed the adventures of Tom Cruise in the role of a secret agent in

(2010), an intriguing action film directed by James Mangold and co-starring Cameron Diaz.

The romantic comedy runs through locations such as

.

Once again, the whims of the scriptwriter took the San Fermines to Seville.

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