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Sad Hill Cemetery (; ) is a tourism site and former film location in Contreras, Burgos (northern Spain), designed by Carlo Simi in 1966 and built by the Spanish Army.
- 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 ''
Significance
Sad Hill Cemetery is where the last sequence was filmed for the film ''The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
''The Good, the Bad and the Ugly'' (, literally "''The good, the ugly, the bad''") is a 1966 Italian epic spaghetti Western film directed by Sergio Leone and starring Clint Eastwood as "the Good", Lee Van Cleef as "the Bad", and Eli Wallach a ...
'' (1966). It was rebuilt in 2015. The reconstruction was recorded in the documentary '' Sad Hill Unearthed'' (2017) by Guillermo de Oliveira.
Status
In 2017, the Asociación Cultural Sad Hill (Sad Hill Cultural Association) planned to name Sad Hill Cemetery a ''Bien de Interés Cultural
(, , , ) is a category of the heritage register in Spain. The term is also used in Colombia and other Spanish-speaking countries.
The term literally means a "good of cultural interest" ("goods" in the economic sense). It includes not only mater ...
''.- 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
''Juniperus thurifera'', the spanish juniper, is a species of juniper native to the mountains of the western Mediterranean region, from southern France (including Corsica) across eastern and central Spain to Morocco and locally in northern Alger ...
'' that burned in 2022 in Santo Domingo de Silos.
See also
*Spaghetti Western
The spaghetti Western is a broad subgenre of Western films produced in Europe. It emerged in the mid-1960s in the wake of Sergio Leone's filmmaking style and international box-office success. The term was used by foreign critics because most o ...
*Cinema of Italy
The cinema of Italy (, ) comprises the films made within Italy or by List of Italian film directors, Italian directors. Since its beginning, Italian cinema has influenced film movements worldwide. Italy is one of the birthplaces of art cinema and ...
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* {{Dollars trilogy Cemetery art Cemeteries in Spain Fiction about cemeteries 1966 establishments in Spain 1960s disestablishments in Spain Spaghetti Western films Film fandom Tourist attractions in Burgos Dollars Trilogy