Sad Hill Cemetery

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Sad Hill Cemetery
Cementerio de Sad Hill
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Sad Hill Cemetery
Details
Established1966
Abandoned1966
Location
CountrySpain
Coordinates 41°59′26″N3°24′30″W / 41.990429°N 3.408454°W / 41.990429; -3.408454 (Sad Hill)
TypeMovie set
StyleWestern
Owned byAsociación Cultural Sad Hill
No. of interments0
No. of cremations0
Website http://www.acsadhill.es/

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]

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Sad Hill seen from an aerial point of view. The circle in the centre is the location for the epic Mexican standoff between bounty hunter Blondie, bandit Tuco Ramirez, and mercenary Angel Eyes. Sad Hill vista xeral 01.jpg
Sad Hill seen from an aerial point of view. The circle in the centre is the location for the epic Mexican standoff between bounty hunter Blondie, bandit Tuco Ramìrez, and mercenary Angel Eyes.

Significance

Sad 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

In 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]

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