Among the most famous spaghetti western directors was Sergio Leone, whose films “The Good, the Bad and The Ugly” and “A Fistful of Dollars” brought Clint Eastwood to the fore.
Going up the wild arid landscape, the doors of the 19th century saloon open onto a wide, dusty road full of stables and horse stables. It is a historical part of the wild west of the USA – in Spain – and is for sale, as the “Guardian” writes.
The location near the village of Tabernas in southern Spain is reminiscent of a unique blend of cultures that met decades ago to create a product known around the world.
With shots and hard cowboys, these films were dubbed spaghetti westerns or “spaghetti films” for the Japanese, due to the fact that almost the entire production team of these films was Italian.
Among the most famous directors of the genre was Sergio Leone, whose Italian films such as “The Good, the Bad and The Ugly” and “A Fistful of Dollars” brought Clint Eastwood to the fore.
In the late 1960s, Leone, still very successful, arrived in Tabernacle with the freedom to design a film that would be one of his most ambitious: “Once Upon a Time in the West”. He got his team to make a piece of the West as a setting for a showdown on the railroad between actors Henry Fonda and Charles Bronson.
Five decades later, the eight-hectare backdrop built for the film sold for 2.8 million euros. «What we are selling is a small piece of Almeria history“, Said José Ruda of the real estate agency Grupo Rukasa. «This is a place where memories and jokes were forged». The office has so far received phone calls from Germany, England, France, etc.
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