Rio Alberche (Aldea del Fresno)

A few hundred meters west of the town of Aldea del Fresno (about 60 kilometers west of Madrid) the Rio Alberche River flows between wooded banks and was used in many westerns and which is remembered above all for the famous sequence - shot by Franco Giraldi (director of the second unit) - of the massacre of Mexican soldiers on the Rio Grande by Ramon Rojo (Gian Maria Volonte) of "Fistful of Dollars" (1964). Franco Giraldi then reuses this location in the films "Sugar Colt" (1966) and "Up the MacGregors" (1966) which was directed by him. This area of the river, now used as a weekend picnic spot and known as "la playa de Madrid", appears in many films, including "Cavalry Charge” (1964); "Minnesota Clay" (1964); "Gunfighters of Casa Grande" (1964); "Son of a Gunfighter" (1965); "For a Few Dollars More" (1966); "Up the MacGregors" (1966) (the sequence in where the seven daughters of Donovan (Roberto Camardiel) are attacked by Mexican bandits and saved by the MasGregor brothers); "Texas Adios" (1966); "The Hellbenders" (1967); "A Few Bullets More" (1967); "A Man, a Colt" (1967); "I Came, I Saw, I Shot" (1968); “A Bullet for Sandoval" (1969); "Adios Cjamango!" (1970) "Arizona Colt Returns" (1970); "Kill the Poker Player" (1973); "Comin’ At Ya!" (1981). For some films, the rambla on the left bank of the river is also used, for example in "For a Fistful of Dollars" (1964); "Gunfighters of Casa Grande" (1964); "The Secret of Captain O’Hara" (1965); “Texas Adios" (1966); "Reverend Colt" (1970).

“Fistful of Dollars” (1964)

“Bullets Don’t Argue” (1964)

“Garringo” (1969)

 “Up the MacGregors” (1966)

For some films, the rambla on the left bank of the river is also used, for example in "For a Fistful of Dollars" (1964); "Gunfighters of Casa Grande" (1964); "The Secret of Captain O’Hara" (1965); “Texas Adios" (1966); "Reverend Colt" (1970).

“Fistful of Dollars” (1964)