An eight-hectare set built in the 1960s for one of Sergio Leone’s films is up for sale for €2.8m
Rising up from the rugged arid landscape, the swinging doors of the 19th-century saloon open on to a wide, dusty street dotted with stables and hitching posts for horses.The site near the southern Spanish village of Tabernas hints at a singular mix of cultures that came together decades ago to create a product known the world over; starting in the 1960s, a cohort of mostly Italian film directors capitalised on the area’s chiselled crags of rock to capture their take on the western genre.
Punctuated by shootouts, tough-talking cowboys and sweeping camera angles, these spaghetti westerns, as they came to be known, were credited with reviving a fading genre as they projected the American west back on to itself.
He had his team set out to build a slice of the west as a backdrop for a railroad-themed showdown between actors Henry Fonda and Charles Bronson.Photograph: PictureLux/Hollywood Archive/Alamy€2.8m. “What we’re selling is a small piece of Almería’s history,” said José Ruda of real estate agency Grupo Rukasa. “This is a place where memories and anecdotes were forged.”
Little has seemingly changed since the set stood in for the film’s Sweetwater Ranch – save, that is, for the steady deterioration that has gnawed away at the one-horse town where gun-toting cowboys Fonda and Bronson once swaggered through to a haunting soundtrack composed by
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