The Tabernas Desert (the largest in Europe) is a desert located in Andalusia in the province and about 30 kilometers north of the capital Almería, in the municipality of Tabernas.
It is protected as a wilderness area (Natural Park), and covers 280 square kilometers.
Due to its similarities to North American deserts, this desert has been used from the 1950s to the present day for the filming of many films and westerns.
Films or scenes featuring :
- Fims Directors like Sergio Leone, John Sturges, Steven Spielberg, George Lucas. Stanley Kubrick, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Quentin Tarantino...
- musicians like Ennio Morricone, Ringo Starr...
- actors such as Clint Eastwood, Yul Brynner, Steve McQueen, Charles Bronson, Charlton Heston, Sofia Loren, Peter O'Toole, Omar Sharif, Anthony Quinn, Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton, Jane Fonda, Klaus Kinsky, Lee Van Cleef, Henri Fonda, Brigitte Bardot, Claudia Cardinale, Ursula Andress, Burt Lancaster, Ringo Starr, Hanna Schygulla, Raquel Welch, Harrison Ford, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Mel Gibson, Tina Turner, Sean Connery, Dany Boon, Vincent Cassel, Alain Delon, James Coburn, Eli Wallach, Miou-Miou, Robert Charlebois, Patrick McGoohan, Samuel L. Jackson , Kurt Russell, Channing Tatum, Timothy Dalton, Eva Green, Robert Vaughn...
- singers like Tina Turner, Ringo Starr, Kylie Minogue qui a utilisé le désert de Tabernas dans sa vidéo "Some Kind of Bliss".
- commercials were shot as "Intel Ultrabook" (2012 Daniel Kleinman), "Pepsi" (2006 avec David Beckham)...
In the heyday, there were 14 poblados (villages) for filming films and westerns in the Tabernas desert.
3 remain in operation :
* FORT BRAVO TEXAS HOLLYWOOD (300.000 m2) where filming still takes place as well as tourist shows
* WESTERN LEONE (86.000m2) where only tourist shows remain and is ON SALE for 2.5 million euros
* MINI HOLLYWOOD OASYS (300.000m2) where all that remains are tourist shows and a visit to the zoo.
The other 11 have gradually been abandoned despite their historical interest and their tourist potential :
* TABERNAS DESERT FILM STUDIOS : Various film productions have been made here
* CINE ESCUELA DE ALMERÍA : Film school but also filming location.
* MINI HOLLYWOOD RIO : Leisure centre based on the world of westerns.
* ALMERÍA FILM STUDIO (ex Estudios de Almería) : Used for various shoots.
* LA CAÑADA DE BAZA : Film production and shooting site.
* EL RANCHO : Another western setting.
* DESERT FILM STUDIOS : A place used for various film projects.
* AGUA AMARGA FILM STUDIO : Studio nearby used for various movies.
* EL TARAJAL : Film shooting site in the area.
* ESTUDIO DE CINE EN EL DESIERTO : A studio that has seen several productions.
* SESENTA : Filming location and events related to cinema in the desert.
List of films shot in the Tabernas Desert (unless I'm mistaken)
300.000m2 where filming still takes place as well as tourist shows
1954 "Fort Bravo" (1954 John Sturges : William Holden, Eleanor Parker, John Forsythe)
1960 "Les Sept Mercenaires" (1960 John Sturges : Yul Brynner, Eli Wallach, Steve McQueen, Charles Bronson, Robert Vaughn, James Coburn)
1961 "El Cid" (1961 Anthony Mann : Charlton Heston, Sofia Loren, Raf Vallone, Geneviève Page)
1962 "Lawrence d'Arabie" (1962 David Lean : Peter O'Toole, Omar Sharif, Anthony Quinn, Alec Guinness)
1963 "Cléopâtre" (1963 Joseph L. Mankiewicz : Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton, Rex Harrison)
1963 "Winnetou" (1963 "La Révolte des Indiens Apaches" Harald Reinl : Lex Barker, Pierre Brice, Mario Adorf, Marie Versini)
1963 "Le Chemin de la vengeance" (1963 Robert Stevens : Jane Fonda, Peter Finch, Angela Lansbury, Arthur Hill, Alexander Knox)
1964"Pour une poignée de dollars" (1964 Sergio Leone : Clint Eastwood, Gian Maria Volontè, Marianne Koch)
1965 "Le dernier des Mohicans" (1965 Harald Reinl : Joachim Fuchsberger, Karin Dor)
1965 "Et pour quelques dollars de plus" (1965 Sergio Leone : Clint Eastwood, Lee Van Cleef, Klaus Kinski, Gian Maria Volonté)
1965 "Wild Kurdistan" (1965 "Durchs Wilde Kurdistan" "Attack of the Kurds" Franz Josef Gottlieb : Lex Barker, Marie Versini, Ralf Wolter)
1966 "Django" (1966 Sergio Corbucci : Franco Nero, José Canalejas, José Bódalo)
1966 "Navajo Joe" (1966 Sergio Corbucci : Burt Reynolds, Aldo Sambrell, Nicoletta Machiavelli)
1966 "Sugar colt" (1966 Franco Giraldi : Alex Cord, Arthur Kennedy)
1966 "Texas adios" (1966 Ferdinando Baldi : Franco Nero, Cole Kitosch)
1966 "Johnny Yuma" (1966 Romolo Guerrieri : Mark Damon, Lawrence Dobkin, Rosalba Neri)
1966 "El Chuncho" (1966 Damiano Damiani : Klaus Kinsky, Gian Maria Volonté)
1966 "Les tueurs de l'Ouest" (1966 Eugenio Martín : Tomás Milián, Richard Wyler)
1967 "Death Rides a Horse" (1967 Giulio Petroni : Lee Van Cleef, John Phillip Law, Mario Brega)
1968 "Il était une fois dans l'ouest" (1968 Sergio Leone : Henri Fonda, Claudia Cardinale, Charles Bronson)
1968 "Le bon, la brute et le truand" (1968 Sergio Leone : Clint Eastwood, Lee Van Cleef, Eli Wallach)
1968 "2001 : l'Odyssée de l'espace" (1968 Stanley Kubrick : principaux Keir Dullea, Gary Lockwood, William Sylvester, Daniel Richter, Leonard Rossiter, Douglas Rain)
1968 "Today We Kill Tomorrow We Die" (1968 Tonino Cervi : Brett Halsey, Bud Spencer, Wayde Preston)
1968 "Joe l’implacable" (1968 Antonio Margheriti : Rik Van Nutter, Halina Zalewska, Merce Castro)
1968 "Shalako" (1968 Edward Dmytryk : Sean Connery, Brigitte Bardot, Stephen Boyd)
1968 "Lanky, l'homme à la carabine" (1968 Tonino Valerii : Tonino Valerii, Victor Auz)
1969 "Texas" (1969 Tonino Valerii : Massimo Patrizi, Ernesto Gastaldi, Tonino Valerii)
1969 "La colline des bottes" (1969 "Boot Hill","Trinita va tout casser" Giuseppe Colizzi : Terence Hill, Bud Spencer)
1969 "La Vallée de Gwangi" (1969 Jim O'Connolly : William Bast, Julian More, Willis H. O'Brien)
1969 "Sabata" (1969 Gianfranco Parolini : Lee Van Cleef)
1970 "Patton" (1970 Franklin J. Schaffner : George C. Scott, Karl Malden, Stephen Young)
1970 "Le Condor" (1970 "El Condor" John Guillermin : Lee Van Cleef, Elisha Cook Jr., Patricio Santiago, John Clark (IV))
1970 "On l'appelle Trinita" (1970 Enzo Barboni : Terence Hill, Bud Spencer)
1970 "Bonnes funérailles amis Sartana paiera" (1970 Giuliano Carnimeo : Gianni Garko, Antonio Vilar, Daniela Giordano)
1971 "Les Pétroleuses" (1971 Christian-Jaque & Guy Casaril : Brigitte Bardot, Claudia Cardinale, Michael J. Pollard)
1971 "Catlow" (1971 Sam Wanamaker : Yul Brynner, Richard Crenna, Leonard Nimoy)
1971 "Un colt pour trois salopards" (1971 "Hannie Caulder" Burt Kennedy : Raquel Welch, Robert Culp, Ernest Borgnine)
1971 "Soleil rouge" (1971 Terence Young : Charles Bronson, Toshirô Mifune, Alain Delon, Ursula Andress)
1971 "Valdez Is Coming" (1971 Edwin Sherin : Burt Lancaster, Susan Clark, Frank Silvera)
1971 "Il était une fois la Révolution" (1971 Sergio Leone : Rod Steiger, James Coburn, Romolo Valli)
1971 "Le retour de Sabata" (1971 Gianfranco Parolini : Lee Van Cleef, Reiner Schöne, Giampiero Albertini)
1971 "Barquero" (1971 Gordon Douglas : Lee Van Cleef, Warren Oates, Forrest Tucker)
1971 "Captain Apache" (1971 Alexander Singer : Lee Van Cleef, Carroll Baker, Stuart Whitman)
1971 "Blindman" (1971 Ferdinando Baldi : Tony Anthony, Ringo Starr, Lloyd Battista)
1971 "Whity" (1971 Rainer Werner Fassbinder : Günther Kaufmann, Ron Randell, Hanna Schygulla)
1971 "Doc Holliday" (1971 Frank Perry : Stacy Keach, Faye Dunaway, Harris Yulin)
1972 "In the dust of the Sun" (1972 Richard Balducci : Maria Schell, Robert Cunningham, Daniel Beretta)
1972 "Les Collines de la terreur" (1972 Michael Winner : Charles Bronson, Jack Palance, James Whitmore)
1972 "On continue à l'appeler Trinita" (1972 Enzo Barboni : Terence Hill, Bud Spencer, Yanti Somer)
1973 "Chino" (1973 John Sturges & Duilio Coletti : Charles Bronson, Jill Ireland, Marcel Bozzuffi)
1973 "Mon nom est Personne" (1973 Tonino Valerii : Terence Hill, Henry Fonda, Jean Martin)
1974 "The stranger and the gunfighter" (1974 Antonio Margheriti : Lee Van Cleef, Lieh Lo, Patty Shepard)
1974 "Du sang dans la poussière" (1974 Richard Fleischer : Lee Marvin, Gary Grimes, Ron Howard)
1975 "Zorro" (1975 Duccio Tessari : Alain Delon, Stanley Baker, Ottavia Piccolo, Moustache, Enzo Cerusico)
1976-1978 "Curro Jiménez" (série télé 1976-1978 Sancho Gracia, José Sancho, Álvaro de Luna)
1977 "Valentino" (1977 Ken Russell : Rudolf Noureev, Leslie Caron, Michelle Phillips, Carol Kane)
1978 "Les Quatre plumes blanches" (1978 Don Sharp : Beau Bridges , Robert Powell , Simon Ward )
1978 "Amore, piombo e furore" (1978 Monte Hellman & Tony Brandt : Jenny Agutter, Warren Oates, Fabio Testi)
1978 "La grande bataille" (1978 Umberto Lenzi : Helmut Berger, Samantha Eggar, Giuliano Gemma)
1981 "Les Aventuriers de l'arche perdue" (1981 Steven Spielberg : Harrison Ford, Karen Allen, Paul Freeman)
1981 "On m'appelle Malabar" (1981 Michele Lupo : Bud Spencer, Joe Bugner, Piero Trombetta)
1984 "Yellow Hair and the Fortress of Gold" (1984 Matt Cimber : Laurene Landon, Ken Roberson, Cihangir Gaffari)
1985 "Rustlers' Rhapsody" (1985 Hugh Wilson, Tom Berenger, G.W. Bailey, Marilu Henner)
1986 "Le retour à l'île au tresor" (1986 Ewald André Dupont : Tab Hunter, Dawn Addams, Porter Hall)
1987 "Bianco Apache" (1987 Claudio Fragasso & Bruno Mattei : Sebastian Harrison, Lola Forner, Alberto Farnese)
1989 "Indiana Jones et la dernière croisade" (1989 Steven Spielberg : Harrison Ford, Sean Connery, Alison Doody)
1992-1993 "Young Indiana Jones" (série télé 1992-1993 George Lucas : Sean Patrick Flanery, Corey Carrier, George Hall, Ronny Coutteure)
1994 "La Vengeance de Ringo" (1994 Mario Caiano : Anthony Steffen , Frank WOLF , Eduardo Fajardo)
1995 "Trinità y Bambino... e adesso tocca a noi" (1995 "Trinity and Bambino: The Legend Lives On" Enzo Barboni : Heath Kizzier, Keith Neubert, Yvonne de Bark)
1996 "Aqui llega Condemor, el pecador de la pradera" (1996 Álvaro Sáenz de Heredia : Chiquito de la Calzada, Bigote Arrocet, Sol Abad)
1998 "La vuelta de El Coyote" (1998 Mario Camus : Jose Coronado, Nigel Davenport, Ramón Langa)
1998 "Un dollar pour un mort" (1998 Gene Quintano : Emilio Estevez, William Forsythe, Jordi Mollà)
1998 "The Return of El Coyote" (1998"La Vuelta de El Coyote" Mario Camus : Jose Coronado, Nigel Davenport, Ramón Langa)
1998 "La Chevauchée des héros" (1999 Bill Corcoran : Willie Nelson, Kris Kristofferson, Chad Willett)
2000-2001 "Tessa, à la pointe de l'épée" (série télé 2000-2001) Tessie Santiago, Anthony Lemke, Paulina Gálvez
2001 "El Tesoro de Manitu" (2001 Michael Herbig : Michael Herbig, Christian Tramitz, Marie Bäumer)
2002 "Huit cents balles" (2002 Álex de la Iglesia : Sancho Gracia, Angel de Andres Lopez, Carmen Maura)
2003 "Visual Bible: The Gospel of John" (2003 Philip Saville : Henry Ian Cusick, Daniel Kash, Christopher Plummer)
2004 "Blueberry, l'expérience secrète" (2004 Jan Kounen : Vincent Cassel, Michael Madsen, Juliette Lewis)
2004 "Les Dalton" (2004 Philippe Haïm : Eric Judor, Ramzy Bedia, Saïd Serrari)
2004 "Space Movie: La menace fantoche" (2004 Michael Herbig : Michael Herbig, Rick Kavanian, Christian Tramitz)
2005 "Dark horse" (2005 "Voksne mennesker" Dagur Kári : Jakob Cedergren, Nicolas Bro, Tilly Scott Pedersen)
2006 "Tirante el Blanco" (2006 Vicente Aranda : Caspar Zafer, Esther Nubiola, Leonor Watling)
2006 "Publicité pour Pepsi" (2006, avec David Beckham)
2008 "Dead Bones" (2008 Olivier Beguin : Arie Verveen, Frédéric Landenberg, Ken Foree)
2012 "Doctor Who :La Ville de la miséricorde" (2012 Saul Metzstein : Matt Smith, Karen Gillan , Arthur Darvill
2014 "Penny Dreadful" (série télé 2014 Reeve Carney, Timothy Dalton, Eva Green)
2015 "Les Huit Salopards" (2015 Quentin Tarantino : Samuel L. Jackson , Kurt Russell, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Channing Tatum, Tim Roth, Michael Madsen )
2016 "Six Bullets to Hell" (2016 Tanner Beard & Russell Quinn Cummings : Tanner Beard, Crispian Belfrage)
2016 "Radin !" (2016 Fred Cavayé : Dany Boon, Laurence Arné, Noémie Schmidt)
2018 "Les Frères Sisters" (2018 Jacques Audiard : John C. Reilly, Joaquin Phoenix, Jake Gyllenhaal)
2018 "My Name Is Thomas" (2018 Terence Hill : Terence Hill, Veronica Bitto, Andy Luotto, Guia Jelo)
2018 "Joséphine, ange gardien : L'incroyable destin de Rose Clifton" (2018 Stephan Kopecky : Mimie Mathy, Charlie Nune, Alexandre Varga, Geoffroy Thiebaut, Delphine Lacheteau, Jonathan Cardonnel, Gabrielle Forest, Aurélie Bargème, Willy Cartier, Elena Lemercier, Valentin Girma, Arsène Jiroyan)
2020 "White Lines" (série télé 2020 Álex Pina : Laura Haddock , Nuno Lopes, Marta Milans)
2022 "That Dirty Black Bag" (série télé 2022 Mauro Aragoni & Brian O'Malley : Douglas Booth, Dominic Cooper, Niv Sultan)
1964 "Pour une poignée de dollars" (1964 Sergio Leone : Clint Eastwood, Gian Maria Volontè, Marianne Koch)
1965 "Et pour quelques dollars de plus" (1965 Sergio Leone : Clint Eastwood, Lee Van Cleef, Gian Maria Volontè)
1968 "Le bon, la brute et le truand" (1968 Sergio Leone : Clint Eastwood, Lee Van Cleef, Eli Wallach)
1968 "Il était une fois dans l'ouest" (1968 Sergio Leone : Henri Fonda, Claudia Cardinale, Charles Bronson)
1970 "Le Condor" (1970 "El Condor" John Guillermin : Lee Van Cleef, Elisha Cook Jr., Patricio Santiago, John Clark (IV))
"Wild horse"
1971 "Catlow" (1971 Sam Wanamaker : Yul Brynner, Richard Crenna, Leonard Nimoy)
1971 "A Fistful of Dynamite" (1971 Lori Hill & Morris & Guy Vidal : Domingo Antoine, Roy Bosier, Antonio Casale, Terence Hill )
1973 "Mon nom est Personne" (1973 Tonino Valerii : Terence Hill, Henry Fonda, Jean Martin)
1960 "Les Sept Mercenaires" (1960 John Sturges : Yul Brynner, Eli Wallach, Steve McQueen, Charles Bronson, Robert Vaughn, James Coburn)
1973 "La Colère d'un homme patient" (1973 Bastiano Barone : xxxxxxxxxxxxx)
1976 "L'Increvable" (1976 Giuliano Carnimeo : xxxxxxxxxxxxxx)
1985 "La Rhapsodie des cowboys" (1985)
1986 "L'île au trésor" (1986 Raoul Ruiz : Melvil Poupaud, Martin Landau, Vic Tayback, Lou Castel, Anna Karina, Sheila, Jean-François Stévenin, Jean-Pierre Léaud, Yves Afonso, Pedro Armendáriz Jr)
1964 "Pour une poignée de dollars" (1964 Sergio Leone : Clint Eastwood, Gian Maria Volontè, Marianne Koch)
1965 "Et pour quelques dollars de plus" (1965 Sergio Leone : Clint Eastwood, Lee Van Cleef, Gian Maria Volontè)
1966 "Django" (1966 Sergio Corbucci : Franco Nero, José Canalejas, José Bódalo)
1967 "Le Dernier Jour de la colère" (1967 xxxxx : Lee Van Cleef, Giuliano Gemma)
1968 "Le bon, la brute et le truand" (1968 Sergio Leone : Clint Eastwood, Lee Van Cleef, Eli Wallach)
1968 "Il était une fois dans l'ouest" (1968 Sergio Leone : Henri Fonda, Claudia Cardinale, Charles Bronson)
1968 "Le mercenaire" (1968 Sergio Corbucci : Franco Nero, Tony Musante, Franco Giacobini)
1971 "Les Pétroleuses" (1971 Christian-Jaque & Guy Casaril : Brigitte Bardot, Claudia Cardinale, Michael J. Pollard)
1971 "Soleil rouge" (1971 Terence Young : Charles Bronson, Toshirô Mifune, Alain Delon, Ursula Andress)
1971 "A Fistful of Dynamite" (1971 Lori Hill & Morris & Guy Vidal : Domingo Antoine, Roy Bosier, Antonio Casale, Terence Hill )
1972 "Le Grand Duel" (1972 Giancarlo Santi : Lee Van Cleef , Alberto Dentice , Jess Hahn, Horst Frank)
1975 "Un génie, deux associés, une cloche" (1975 Damiano Damiani : Terence Hill, Miou-Miou, Robert Charlebois, Patrick McGoohan, Klaus Kinski)
1975 "L'Ultimo Uomo di Sara" (1974 Maria Virginia Onorato : Rosemary Dexter, Oddo Bracci, Glauco Onorato )
1982 "Conan le barbare" (1982 John Milius : Arnold Schwarzenegger, James Earl Jones, Max von Sydow, Mako)
1985 "Mad Max 3: Beyond Thunderdome" (1985 George Miller & George Ogilvie : Mel Gibson, Tina Turner, Bruce Spence)
2004 "Blueberry, l'expérience secrète" (2004 Jan Kounen : Vincent Cassel, Michael Madsen, Juliette Lewis)
2012 "Publicité Ultrabook pour Intel" (2012 Daniel Kleinman (en))
2012 "Y la muerte lo seguía" (2012 Ángel Gómez Hermandez : Carlos Alberto Diego, Santi Avendaño, Javier Botetz)
2012 "Doctor Who : La Ville de la miséricorde" (2012 Saul Metzstein : Matt Smith, Karen Gillan , Arthur Darvill
2022 "That Dirty Black Bag" (série télé 2022 Mauro Aragoni, Brian O'Malley : Douglas Booth, Dominic Cooper, Niv Sultan)
