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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 Tabernas Desert (Spanish: Desierto de Tabernas) is a desert located within Spain's south-eastern province of Almería. It is in the interior, about 30 kilometers (19 mi) north of the provincial capital Almería, in the Tabernas municipality in Andalusia. [1] It is the only desert in Europe, since most of its area has a desert climate. [2]
The fortress used in El Condor. Western Leone is a Western-style theme park in the province of Almeria, Andalusia (Spain). Located at the 378.9 km mark on the A-92 motorway, [1] it is the smallest of three such theme parks in the Tabernas Desert; the other two are Mini Hollywood and Texas Hollywood.
Oasys (formerly known as Mini Hollywood) is a Spanish Western-styled theme park, located off the 364 km mark of the N-340 road, [1] near the town of Tabernas in the province of Almería, Andalusia. Originally known as Yucca City, [ 2 ] the set was designed by Carlo Simi and built for Sergio Leone 's For a Few Dollars More in 1965. [ 3 ]
Almería (UK: / ˌ æ l m ə ˈ r iː ə /, [3] US also / ˌ ɑː l-/, [4] [5] Spanish: [almeˈɾi.a] ⓘ) is a city and municipality of Spain, located in Andalusia. It is the capital of the province of the same name. It lies in southeastern Iberia on the Mediterranean Sea. Caliph Abd al-Rahman III founded the city in 955. [6]
The television series Queen of Swords was filmed May 3, 2000 to December 12, 2000, [7] principally in the Spanish buildings and the surrounding Tabernas Desert.The Western buildings were also used for the series with the Western jail serving as the Spanish jail and one of the large Western buildings was converted into a sound stage containing the living quarters of both Senorita Alvarado and ...
The position of the Tres Tabernae is also shown in the Tabula Peutingeriana in a location south of Rome. [5] Notes ... "Tres Tabernas". Easton's Bible Dictionary (New ...
The desert of Tabernas became the land of the Dothraki, a gigantic steppe in Essos; Pechina depicted Vaes Dothrak, their commercial capital; Torre de Mesa Roldán in Cabo de Gata natural park became part of Meereen, the city of pyramids; the Alcazaba fortress was the capital of Dorne, the kingdom of the House Martell; and Sorbas. [4]