The village of Los Albaricoques (The Apricots) is home to
low-lying white houses, twelve kilometers north of San Jose, in the Nijar
countryside. This is where Clint Eastwood's entrance scene to San Miguel was
filmed in the movie "A Fistful of Dollars" (1964), when he passes the
cadaver of a Mexican hoisted on a horse, which carries on his back a sign in
which is written "Adios amigo". This location is then combined with
the set of Golden City at Hoyo di Manzanares, north of Madrid, where much of
Sergio Leone's film is shot. Los Albricoques was then used as a set to
represent the hostile and inhospitable village of Agua Caliente in the last
sequence of “For a Few Dollars More” (1965). Los Albaricoques then appears in
the last sequence of "A Woman for Ringo" (1966); also it was used in
"Ringo the Face of Revenge" (1966); "Day of Anger" (1967)
(representing the town of Bowie, Arizona); "A Long Ride from Hell"
(1968); "Blood and Guns" (1969); "El Condor" (1970).
Today the village of Los Albaricoques has changed quite a
bit. The buildings were renovated during the 1990s; but the 'era' still
survived, a structure typical of old rural Spain, that is the stone-paved
rotunda-shaped courtyard that is used for threshing. It was used in "For a
Few Dollars More" (1965) as the theater of the final duel between
Mortimore (Lee Van Cleef) and Indio (Gian Maria Volonte). At the edge of the
'era' there is also the small white cubic construction with a stone toretta
which – again is seen the sequence of the final duel - it is seen when, after
the two direct antagonists (Mortimer and Indio), appears in scenes Clint
Eastwood or, better, when in the foreground his arm with the music box appears.
“A Fistful of Dollars”
“For a Few Dollars More”
“A Woman for Ringo”
“Day of Anger”
“A Long Ride from Hell”
“Blood and Guns”
“El Condor”
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