Tabernas

Tabernas, Spain
Country	Spain
Community	Andalusia
Municipality	Almería
Government
• Mayor	Antonio Úbeda González (PSOE)
Area
• Total	281 km2 (108.5 sq mi)
Elevation	400 m (1,320 ft)
Population  (2005)
• Total	3,410
• Density	12.1/km2 (31.4/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+1 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+2 (CEST)

Tabernas is a municipality of Almería province, in the autonomous community of Andalusia, 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 filming location of many feature films and TV series. The three film sets in the area: Fort Bravo Texas Hollywood, Western Leone, 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

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Cinema

The desert of Tabernas, because of its similarities with the North American deserts like the Far West of the American West, northern Africa, the Arabian deserts, and its lunar landscape, served from 1950s and is still used today for the shooting of many films and westerns (the spaghetti westerns), which made him famous around the world.

There were filmed movies or scenes of:

• Years 1940

"La Alcazaba de Almería" (1943 documentary black and white 10mn of Vicente Zaragoza)

• Years 1950

"La llamada de África" (1952 of César Fernández Ardavín with Ali Beiba Uld Abidin, Yahadid Ben Ahmed Lehbib, Farachi Ben Emboiric

"Fort Bravo" (1954 of John Sturges with William Holden, Eleanor Parker, John Forsythe, Richard Anderson "Escape from Fort Bravo")

"El beso de Judas" (1954 of Rafael Gil with Mercedes Albert, Gabriel Alcover, Pedro Anzola "Le baiser de Judas")

"Sierra Maldita" (1954 of Antonio Del Amo with Lina Rosales, Ruben Rojo, José Guardiola, Manuel Zarzo "Cursed Mountain")

"Oeil pour oeil" (1957 d'André Cayatte with Curd Jürgens, Darío Moreno "An Eye for An Eye" Ojo por ojo)

• Years 1960

"Les Sept Mercenaires" (1960 Charles Bronson, Eli Wallach, James Coburn, Robert Vaughnn, Steve McQueen, Yul Brynner)

"Un taxi pour Tobrouk" (1961 Lino Ventura, Charles Aznavour)

"Le Cid" (1961 Charlton Heston, Sofia Loren)

"Lawrence d'Arabie" (1962 Peter O'Toole, Omar Sharif, Anthony Quinn)

"Cléopâtre" (1963 Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton)

"Winnetou" (1963)

"Le Chemin de la vengeance" (1963 Jane Fonda)

"Una pistola per Ringo" (1964 "Un pistolet pour Ringo")

"Pour une poignée de dollars" (1964 Clint Eastwood)

"Et pour quelques dollars de plus" (1965 Clint Eastwood, Lee Van Cleef, Klaus Kinski)

"El ultimo Mohicano" (1965 "The Last of the Mohicans" "Le dernier des mohicans")

"Attack of the Kurds" (1965)

"Wild Kurdistan" (1965 "Durchs Wilde Kurdistan")

"Le Bon, la Brute et le Truand" (1966, Clint Eastwood, Lee Van Cleef, Elli Wallach)

"Django" (1966)

"Navajo Joe" (1966)

"Sugar colt" (1966)

"Texas adios" (1966)

"Johnny Yuma" (1966)

"El Chuncho" (1966 Klaus Kinski)

"Les Tueurs de l'Ouest" (1966)

"The Rat Patrol" (1966-1968)

"Billy el Nino" (1967 "Kid Barbecue")

"Death Rides a Horse" (1967 Lee Van Cleef "La mort était au rendez-vous")

"Django i bastardo" (1967 "Django the bastard" "Django der bastard")

"Django Melodie in blei" (1968 "Uno más al infierno" "Campa carogna... la taglia cresce")

"2001 : l'Odyssée de l'espace" (1968)

"Today We Kill Tomorrow We Die" (1968)

"Joe l’implacable" (1968)

"Il était une fois dans l'ouest" (1968 Henry Fonda, Claudia Cardinale, Charles Bronson)

"Shalako" (1968 Sean Connery, Brigitte Bardot)

"Lanky, l'homme a la carabine" (1968)

"Texas" (1969 "Il Prezzo del potere")

"Les Quatre de l'Ave Maria" (1969 "Ace High" Eli Wallach)

"La colline des bottes" (1969 "Boot Hill", "Trinita va tout casser")

"La Vallée de Gwangi" (1969)

• Years 1970

"Patton" (1970)

"Le Condor" (1970 Lee Van Cleef "El Condor")

"On l'appelle Trinita" (1970)

"Sabata" (1970 Lee Van Cleef)

"Bonnes funérailles amis Sartana paiera" (1970)

"A man called Sledge" (1970 "Lo chiavamano Sledge" "Der einsame aus dem western")

"La Folie des grandeurs" (1971 Louis de Funès, Yves Montand, Alice Sapritch)

"Hannie Caulder" (1971 Raquel Welch)

"Les Pétroleuses" (1971 Brigitte Bardot, Claudia Cardinale)

"Catlow" (1971 Yul Brynner)

"Un colt pour trois salopards" (1971 Raquel Welch)

"Soleil rouge" (1971 Alain Delon, Charles Bronson, Ursula Andress)

"Valdez Is Coming" (1971 Burt Lancaster)

"Il était une fois la Révolution" (1971 James Coburn)

"Le retour de Sabata" (1971 Lee Van Cleef)

"Barquero" (1971 Lee Van Cleef)

"Captain Apache" (1971 Lee Van Cleef)

"Blindman" (1971 Ringo Starr)

"Whity" (1971 Hanna Schygulla)

"Les Collines de la terreur" (1972 Charles Bronson)

"Those dirty dogs" (1972 "Hôtel Apache" "La charge des diables" "Campa carogna... la taglia cresce" "4 Teufels kerle")

"On continue à l'appeler Trinita" (1972)

"Chino" (1973 John Sturges, Charles Bronson)

"In the dust of the Sun" (1973)

"Mon nom est Personne" (1973 Henry Fonda)

"Zorro" (1974 Alain Delon)

"Chato's Land" (1974 Charles Bronson, Jack Pallance)

"Du sang dans la poussière" (1974 "The spikes gang"

"The stranger and the gunfighter" (1974 Lee Van Cleef)

"Doc Holliday" (1974 Faye Dunaway)

"Du sang dans la poussière" (1974)

"Curro Jiménez" (1975-1977 série télé)

"Adios California" (1977 "Der Mann aus Virginia" "Spiel das Lied von Californien" "California")

"Les Quatre plumes blanches" (1977)

"Valentino" (1977)

"Amore, piombo e furore" (1978)

"La grande bataille" (1978)

"Wild horse Hank" (1979)

• Years 1980

"Les Aventuriers de l'arche perdue" (1981 Harrison Ford)

"On m'appelle Malabar" (1981)

"Conan le barbare" (1982 Arnold Schwarzenegger)

"Les Exterminateurs de l'an 3000" (1983 "Death Warriors", "The Executor Der Vollstrecker" "Sterminatori dell'anno 3000")

"Rush Part-2 The final Game" (1984 "Rabbia - Fuoco incrociato")

"Yellow Hair and the Fortress of Gold" (1984)

"Mad Max 3: Beyond Thunderdome" (1985 Mel Gibson, Tina Turner)

"La Rhapsodie des cowboys" (1985 "Rustler's Rhapsody")

"Le retour à l'île au trésor" (1986 "Return to Treasure Island")

"Bianco Apache" (1987 "l'Apache blanc")

"Indiana Jones et la dernière croisade" (1989 Steven Spielberg, Harrison Ford, Sean Connery)

• Years 1990

"Young Indiana Jones" (1992-1993 série télé)

"La Vengeance de Ringo" (1994)

"Trinità y Bambino... e adesso tocca a noi" (1995 "Trinity and Bambino: The Legend Lives On")

"Aqui llega Condemor" (1996)

"el pecador de la pradera" (1996)

"Un mort pour un dollar" ("Dollar for the dead" 1998)

"The Return of El Coyote" (1998 "La Vuelta de El Coyote")

"The long kill" (1999 "Outlaw Justice")

"La Chevauchée des héros" (1999)

• Years 2000

"Queen of Swords (2000-2001) TV series. A Canadian/Spanish/UK production.

"El Tesoro de Manitu"(2001)

"800 balles" (2002)

"Visual Bible: The Gospel of John"(2003)

"Blueberry, l'expérience secrète"(2004 Vincent Cassel, Tchéky Karyo)

"Les Dalton" (2004 Éric Judor, Ramzy Bedia, Marthe Villalonga, Sylvie Joly , Élie Semoun, Jean Dujardin, Darry Cowl)

"Dark horse" (2005 "Voksne mennesker")

"Tirante el Blanco" (2006)

"Publicity Romain Football for Pepsi" (2006? with David Beckham) Publicité Pepsi

"Dead Bones" (2008)

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Stanley Kubrick identified as "lunar landscape" of the wilderness and desert of Tabernas and filmed 2001 space odyssey "(1968).

Kylie Minogue also used the desert of Tabernas in his video,Some Kind of Blissdirected by Dexter Fletcher.

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External links

• Cinema Studios Fort Bravo Texas Hollywood

• Template:Es icon Tabernas - Sistema de Información Multiterritorial de Andalucía
• Template:Es icon Tabernas - Diputación Provincial de Almería