Tabernas
Place in Andalusia, Spain
Tabernas is a municipality of Almería province, in the autonomous community of Andalusia, Spain, as well as the name of the principal town of the municipality. It is located on the edge of the famous Tabernas Desert, the filming location of many feature films and TV series. The three film sets in the area: Fort Bravo, Western Leone, Mini Hollywood attract a modest number of tourists. It is the site of Moorish castle ruins, an old church, and a refurbished Teatro Municipal.
01Demographics
| Year | Pop. | ±% |
|---|---|---|
| 1996 | 3,457 | , |
| 2001 | 3,204 | −7.3% |
| 2006 | 3,494 | +9.1% |
| 2017 | 3,679 | +5.3% |
| Source: INE (Spain) | ||
02Cinema
The Tabernas Desert, because of its similarities to North American deserts as seen in western movies, to northern Africa and to the Arabian deserts, and because of its lunar landscape, served from the 1950s onwards for the shooting of many films needing such landscapes (e.g. the Spaghetti Westerns), making the area world-renowned.
03Notable people
- Encarnación Magaña - In 1942 she was the last woman from Almería to be executed after the Spanish Civil War. In 2020 a street was named after her, making it the first street in Tabernas to be named after a woman.
Sources and credits
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Images, from Wikimedia Commons:
- Casa Consistorial Tabernas 02.jpg by Urci dream, CC BY-SA 4.0
- Almeria Yucca City bei Tabernas.jpg by Gordito1869, CC BY 3.0
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