A secondary railway line that connected the La Calahorra
station to the Alquife mines at the foot of the northern side of the Sierra
Nevada and pat the village of La Calahorra, through a wide valley known as
Llanos del Marquesado del Cenete. It was situated between the Sierra Nevada (to
the south) and the Sierra de Gor-Baza (to the north), this valley, which at the
time of Arab domination was fertile agricultural land, was assigned to the
Cardinal de Mendoza, the King's first counselor, after the Reconquista.
Catholics during the war against the emirs of Granada. His illegitimate son
Rodrigo de Mendoza, who became the first Marquis of Cenete, built the imposing
castle that dominated the town of La Calahorra between 1509 and 1512,
characterized by walls and corner towers crowned by domes surrounding an
elegant Renaissance courtyard in the Italian style which had a staircase in a
Carrara marmot. The beds of the La Calahorra-Minas de Alquife railway line were
removed in the autumn of 2001, but the layout of this short railway is
preserved, which is situated in a splendid panoramic position, it was used in
many films, some of which they also built sets for railway stations. Among the western
films in which this railway appears: "For a Few Dollars More" (1965)
(in the first sequence, in which Mortimer / Lee Van Cleef forces the train to
stop at the Tucumcari station); "The Good, the Bad and the Ugly"
(1966) (the train on which Tuco / Eli Wallach, a chained prisoner, manages to
get rid of the corporal Wallace / Mario Brega); "Up the MacGregors)
(1966); "Once Upon a Time in the West" (1968) (the set of the Cattle
Corner station in the first train sequence); "Death Rides a Horse"
(1967); "Face to Face" (1967) (a train robbery sequence); "Any
Gun Can Play" (1967); "And for a Roof a Sky Full of Stars"
(1968); “100 Rifles” (1969) (the sequence in which Raquel Welch, showers at an
elevated cistern, and manages to stop the train loaded with government
military, which is then attacked by the Yaqui rebels); "The Price of
Power" (1969); “The Hunting Party” (1971); "Blindman" (1971);
"Duck You Sucker" (1971) (the great night battle of the last part of
the film, for which local mines are also used, namely The Low Irrigators,
behind which the revolutionaries are lurking to confront the government troops
of the military convoy by Gunther Reza); "Red Sun" (1971); “Pancho
Villa” (1972),“ The Ballad of Ben and Charlie ”(1972); "The Man Called
Noon" (1973) (in which the iron bridge also appears); "Another Try Eh
Providence" ”(1973); "My Name is Nobody" (1973); "The
White, the Yellow, the Black" (1974); "The Stranger and the
Gunfighter" (1974); "Whiskey and Fantasy" (1974); "The
Genius" (1975); "Buddy Goes West" (1981); "Rustlers'
Rhapsody " (1985); "Winnetou
Returns" TV (1997). In several scenes shot on this short railway line you
see the snow-covered profile of the Sierra Nevada, the mountain range that
includes the highest peak in Spain, Mulhacen (3,482 meters), and extends for
about eighty kilometers from west to east, from the province of Granada to that
of Almeria.
“Navajo Joe” (1966)
“Any Gun Can Play” (1967)
“Once Upon a Time in the West” (1968)
“100 Rifles” (1969)
“My Name is Nobody” (1973)
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