Sad Hill Cemetery (Spanish: Cementerio de Sad Hill; Italian: Cimitero di Sad Hill) is a tourism site and former film location in northern Spain, designed by Carlo Simi in 1966[1] and built by the Spanish Army.[2]
| Sad Hill Cemetery | |
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Cementerio de Sad Hill | |
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| Details | |
| Established | 1966 |
| Abandoned | 1966 |
| Location | |
| Country | Spain |
| Coordinates | 41°59′26″N 3°24′30″W / 41.990429°N 3.408454°W |
| Type | Movie set |
| Style | Western |
| Owned by | Asociación Cultural Sad Hill |
| No. of interments | 0 |
| No. of cremations | 0 |
| Website | http://www.acsadhill.es/ |
Significance
editSad Hill Cemetery is where the last sequence was filmed for the film The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1966).[3] It was rebuilt in 2015.[4] The reconstruction was recorded in the documentary Sad Hill Unearthed (2017) by Guillermo de Oliveira.[5]
Status
editIn 2017, the Asociación Cultural Sad Hill (Sad Hill Cultural Association) planned to name Sad Hill Cemetery a Bien de Interés Cultural.[6]
In 2024, the Sabinares del Arlanza Natural Park announced a plan to rebuild the Betterville prisoner camp at its filmed location about 6 km from Sad Hill. The stockade will be rebuilt using thousands of Juniperus thurifera that burned in 2022 in Santo Domingo de Silos.[7]
See also
editReferences
edit- ^ "Rescatan del olvido el cementerio de "El bueno, el feo y el malo"" [They rescue from oblivion the cemetery of "The Good, the Bad and the Ugly"]. Canal Patrimonio (in Spanish). 26 July 2016. Retrieved 7 July 2017.
- ^ Rodríguez Pontevedra, Silvia (19 October 2018). "Cuando el Ejército de Franco construyó el cementerio de 'El bueno, el feo y el malo'" [When Franco's Army built the cemetery of 'The Good, the Bad and the Ugly']. El País (in Spanish). Pontevedra. Retrieved 2 January 2019.
- ^ Alonso, J. F. (18 October 2018). "La verdadera historia del cementerio burgalés de "El bueno, el feo y el malo"" [The true story of the Burgos cemetery of "The Good, the Bad and the Ugly"]. ABC (in Spanish). Grupo Vocento. Retrieved 2 January 2019.
- Kassam, Ashifa (29 November 2015). "The Good, The Bad and The Dilapidated: cemetery where Eastwood became a star gets revamp". The Guardian.
- Jone, Sam (22 June 2017). "The Good, the Bad and the Ugly's graveyard comes back from the dead". The Guardian. - ^ "Un documental recoge la recuperación del cementerio de 'El Bueno, El Feo y El Malo'" [A documentary collects the recovery of the cemetery of 'The Good, the Bad and the Ugly']. Europa Press (in Spanish). 18 June 2017. Retrieved 2 January 2019.
- ^ "'Sad Hill Unearthed', el documental sobre la reconstrucción del cementerio de 'El bueno, el feo y el malo'" ['Sad Hill Unearthed', the documentary on the reconstruction of the cemetery of 'The Good, the Bad and the Ugly']. Libertad Digital (in Spanish). 29 June 2016. Retrieved 2 January 2019.
- Conde, Arturo Conde (February 26, 2019). "Why do spaghetti Western fans pilgrimage to Spain? The curious history, explained". NBC News. - ^ Rodríguez Pontevedra, Silvia (14 June 2017). "Todos quieren su tumba en el cementerio burgalés de 'El bueno, el feo y el malo'" [Everyone wants their grave in the Burgos cemetery of 'The Good, the Bad and the Ugly]. El País (in Spanish). PRISA. Retrieved 2 January 2018.
- Hedgecoe, Guy (2 August 2017). "The Good, the Bad and the Ugly location reborn in Spain". BBC News. - ^ Camazón, Alba (22 January 2024). "Burgos recreará el campo de prisioneros de 'El bueno, el feo y el malo' con madera quemada en el incendio de 2022" [Burgos will recreate the prisoner camp of 'The Good, The Bad and the Ugly' with wood burnt in the 2022 fire]. elDiario.es (in Spanish). Retrieved 23 January 2024.
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