The
town of Nuevo Baztán, Spain
is 46 kilometers east of Madrid
and is an interesting example of an urban complex created from scratch in a
rural area at the time of King Philip V. It was built on the initiative of the
industrialist Juan de Goyeneche, whose family was originally from the valley of Baztán,
in Navarre.
The project that
was based on French examples of the first industrial age, was entrusted to one
of the most famous architects of the Spanish Baroque: José Benito de
Churriguera, who built the main buildings - the church-pa-fazzo complex -
between 1790 and 1713. Around this nucleus a perfectly perpendicular road
network developed with houses and workshops (where glass, ceramics, textiles,
soap was manufactured), which remained in operation until 1752. Behind the main palace there
is a square, closed on Four Sides, known as "Plaza de toros o de
fiestas", which is accessed through two stone doors, which was used as a
set in “The Hills Run Red” (1968); “The Return of the Seven” (1966); “Sugar
Colt” (1966) (as the Southern Colonel's ranch that holds the soldiers and their
captured prisoners); “Texas Addio” (1966); “A Man and a Colt” (1967); “Up the MacGregors”
(1966) (the scene of the spectacular clash in the lair of the Mexican bandit
Maldonado in the final part of the film); “The Mercenary” (1968); “Long Live
Your Death” (1971); “The Genius” (1975) (in which it represents Fort
Cristobal); “Zorro” (1975).
“The
Hills Run Red” (1968)
“Return of the Seven” (1966)
“Sugar
Colt” (1966)
“Texas Addio” (1966)
“The
Genius” (1975)
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