Sad Hill Cemetery | |
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Cementerio de Sad Hill | |
Details | |
Established | 1966 |
Abandoned | 1966 |
Location | |
Country | Spain |
Coordinates | 41°59′26″N3°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/ |
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 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]
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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