A cowboy during a re-enactment at Fort Bravo (former spaghetti western movie set) in Tabernas, Spain
Texas Hollywood is now primarily a tourist attraction which was once, and still is from time to time, a movie lot located in Tabernas in the Tabernas Desert (the largest desert in Europe). In particular, it includes three major movie sets. One portrays communities of 19th century Mexico with a square, church, governors house, cantina, hotel, and a street of peasant houses. There is an American Old West town with a saloon, jail, bank, stables and shops. Finally, there is an encampment of native Americans Indians. Another set at this location is the fort of chivalry, Fort Bravo. Tourists can see re-enactments of gunfights and saloon brawls, and the occasional films in production. A large number of films and television shows, particularly spaghetti westerns, have been filmed or taped there. The American town was built for Sergio Leone's film, The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1966). Texas Hollywood has had several names: “Poblado Juan Garcia“, ”Decorados Cinematograficos“, ”Poblado Ardura Paco“, ”Pueblo Mexicano“, and most recently ”Fort Bravo”. To go there, one comes through the national 340 from Almeria towards Sorbas after the junction with the C 3326 to about 2 km down on the left by one track.
Size: 5616px × 3744px
Location: Fort Bravo, Tabernas, Almeria province, Andalusia, Southern Spain, Europe
Photo credit: © DE ROCKER / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
Keywords: -enactment, -enactor, 20th-century, actor, almeria, american, andalucia, andalusia, andalusian, attraction, bravo, cinema, cowboy, cultural, culture, europe, european, film, filming, fort, gallows, gunfight, gunfighter, gunslinger, hollywood, house, houses, leone, location, main, male, movie, reenactment, reenactor, sergio, set, sightseeing, spaghetti, spain, spanish, street, tabernas, texas, tourism, tourist, town, travel, village, visitor, west, western, wooden
