Film and TV locations in Spain
234 places to shoot in Spain: 43 industrial and derelict locations, 38 theatres, arenas and venues, 33 transport and infrastructure locations and 120 more. 142 have a photo and 49 carry practical details the location publishes itself. Search and put three side by side in the locations search.
Regions
- Community of Madrid 41
- Barcelona, Catalonia 18
- Andalusia 13
- Biscay, Basque Country 12
- Gran Canaria, Canary Islands 12
- Seville, Andalusia 12
- Valencia, Valencian Community 10
- Asturias 8
- Tenerife, Canary Islands 7
- Cantabria 6
- A Coruna, Galicia 6
- Huelva, Andalusia 5
- Cadiz, Andalusia 5
- Murcia, Murcia 5
- Navarre 5
- Lanzarote, Canary Islands 5
- Mallorca, Balearic Islands 5
- La Rioja 4
- Teruel, Aragon 3
- Almeria, Andalusia 3
- Catalonia 3
- Alicante, Valencian Community 3
- Leon, Castile and Leon 3
- Fuerteventura, Canary Islands 3
- Gipuzkoa, Basque Country 3
And single locations in 28 more regions, all of them in the list below.
Industrial and derelict locations in Spain 43
Factories, warehouses, power stations, mines, depots and abandoned buildings: raw space, hard surfaces and the kind of decay that is impossible to build. All 43 on their own page.
Almadraba de Monteleva
Industrial & derelict
Salt works village inside the Cabo de Gata natural park, with evaporation pans, a salt loading pier, a lone white church and abandoned workers' buildings.
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Arsenal de la Carraca
Industrial & derelict
Eighteenth century naval arsenal on the Bay of Cadiz at San Fernando, with dry docks, rope walks, workshops, barrack ranges and quays inside a walled military compound.
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Astilleros Nereo
Industrial & derelict
Traditional wooden boatyard on Pedregalejo beach in Malaga, still building and repairing hulls on open sand, with timber sheds, slipways and hand tools.
Azkuna Zentroa
Industrial & derelict
A former wine and grain warehouse, the Alhondiga, in Bilbao rebuilt by Philippe Starck behind its original brick facade, with 43 varied columns under a rooftop pool and terrace.
Basque Country Mining Museum
Industrial & derelict
Museum in the Gallarta iron ore district, with mining machinery, a reconstructed gallery and access to the open cast workings and spoil landscape of Meatzaldea.
Bombas Gens
Industrial & derelict
A former water-pump factory in Valencia built in Art Deco style, its restored halls now an art foundation with gallery and workshop spaces.
Cardona Salt Mountain Cultural Park
Industrial & derelict
Former potash and salt mine open to visitors 86 metres underground, with galleries of grey and white salt plus surface pithead buildings and machinery.
Colonia Guell
Industrial & derelict
Preserved textile factory village of the 1890s with brick mill sheds, workers' housing, a school, a cooperative and Gaudi's unfinished crypt, 15 km from Barcelona.
Coto de las Canteras
Industrial & derelict
Disused sandstone quarry at Osuna worked since Roman times, with sheer cut walls, carved chambers, an amphitheatre space and rubble floors in the open air.
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Fabra i Coats
Industrial & derelict
A former 19th-century textile mill in Barcelona's Sant Andreu district, its long brick sheds and chimney now used as artist studios and a cultural centre.
La Vega Arms Factory
Industrial & derelict
Closed state arms factory in Oviedo covering about 115,000 square metres, with 19th and 20th century workshop halls, offices, a chapel and open yards.
Matadero Madrid
Industrial & derelict
A former municipal slaughterhouse and cattle market beside the Manzanares river, its early 20th-century brick pavilions converted into galleries, studios and event spaces.
Rentable filming spaces include Plaza Matadero (sections A and B, combinable), Nave 16 (full nave or modules), the Naves Teatro Espanol (Sala Fernando...
Mining and Industry Museum of Asturias
Industrial & derelict
Museum at El Entrego built around a headframe, with a reconstructed underground mine, machinery halls, a lamp room and industrial exhibits in the Nalon valley.
Museo Vostell Malpartida
Industrial & derelict
Former wool washing works of the eighteenth century among the granite boulders of Los Barruecos, now a Fluxus art museum with stone halls, water tanks and yards.
Museum of Iron and Steel and Mining of Castile and Leon
Industrial & derelict
Museum in the 1846 San Blas ironworks at Sabero, a stone hall in neo Gothic form with tall arched windows, machinery displays and mining buildings around it.
National Museum of Science and Technology of Catalonia (mNACTEC)
Industrial & derelict
Modernista steam powered textile mill of 1909 in Terrassa, with a glazed sawtooth roof, wide column free machine halls and working looms, engines and boilers.
Nau Bostik
Industrial & derelict
Former glue factory in La Sagrera run as a cultural centre, with a large open hall, bare brick and concrete rooms, an enclosed yard and painted walls, all hireable.
Pozo Soton
Industrial & derelict
Former coal mine of 1917 kept as a heritage site, with two headframes, winding engines, lamp room, baths and guided access to galleries several hundred metres down.
Riotinto Mining Park
Industrial & derelict
An open-cast copper and mineral mining landscape in Huelva province with reddened terrain, a heritage mining railway and a mining museum.
Royal Glass Factory of La Granja
Industrial & derelict
Eighteenth century royal glassworks at San Ildefonso, with a vast pillared factory hall, domed furnace houses, workshops and a working glass blowing school.
Royal Tapestry Factory
Industrial & derelict
A working tapestry and carpet workshop in Madrid founded in 1721, still weaving on wooden looms in its original workshop halls, open for guided tours.
Salinas de Janubio
Industrial & derelict
Working sea salt works on the south west coast, a grid of shallow evaporation pans in pink and white beside black lava cliffs, with pumps, channels and salt piles.
Sargadelos Ceramics Factory
Industrial & derelict
Working porcelain factory at Cervo founded on an 18th century ironworks site, with round white workshop buildings, kilns, moulding shops and a museum.
Tabakalera
Industrial & derelict
A former state tobacco factory in San Sebastian, its early 20th-century industrial halls converted into a contemporary culture and creation centre.
Capacity: 600 · Ten rentable spaces: Patio (620 m2, 10 m high; banquet 220 / cocktail 600 / theatre 400), Cine hall (327 m2, 5 m high; theatre or classroom 229), Sala...
Vivanco Museum of Wine Culture
Industrial & derelict
Winery and wine museum at Briones, with stainless steel and barrel halls, an underground cellar, exhibition galleries and vineyards on the Ebro valley slopes.
Zorrotzaurre
Industrial & derelict
Former dock island in the Bilbao estuary now being redeveloped, mixing empty warehouses and quay walls with new bridges, waterfront paths and apartment blocks.
Almaden Mining Park
Industrial & derelict
A former mercury mine in Ciudad Real with headframes, shafts and underground galleries open for visits, worked from Roman times until closure in 2001.
Astican Shipyard
Industrial & derelict
Working ship repair yard in the port of Las Palmas with floating docks, gantry cranes, dry berths and large open quaysides, a heavy industrial backdrop on the water.
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Bodegas Alvear
Industrial & derelict
Working winery in Montilla, Córdoba, founded in 1729, with barrel cellars, courtyards and production buildings used for the local Montilla-Moriles wines.
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Bodegas Osborne
Industrial & derelict
Sherry cellars at El Puerto de Santa Maria, tall whitewashed naves with rows of oak butts, sand floors, arched aisles and shafts of light from high windows.
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Cooperativa Olivarera Nuestra Señora del Puerto
Industrial & derelict
Working olive oil cooperative in the small Sierra de Huelva town of Zufre, with mill buildings, storage tanks and loading areas used to process the local harvest.
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Destilerias Arehucas
Industrial & derelict
Rum distillery working since 1884 in Arucas, with an American oak cask cellar, copper stills, bottling lines and stone industrial buildings open to guided visits.
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Harinera del Guadaira
Industrial & derelict
Former flour mill on the river at Alcala de Guadaira, brick and iron industrial halls with milling floors and tall windows, now in public use and listed by the film commission.
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La Nave Madrid
Industrial & derelict
Former 1940s elevator factory of the Boetticher company in Villaverde, converted into a public innovation centre with a large open barrel-vaulted hall, a tower, classrooms and an auditorium.
Large open industrial hall, tower, classrooms, auditorium, rooftop with views over Villaverde
Las Medulas
Industrial & derelict
A red-cliffed landscape left by Roman open-cast gold mining, honeycombed with tunnels and covered in chestnut trees, managed as a protected heritage site in the Bierzo hills.
Mina Agrupa Vicenta
Industrial & derelict
Nineteenth century iron mine in the Sierra Minera at La Union, an underground chamber about 80 metres across held up on rock pillars, reached by a sloping gallery.
Muelle de la Rio Tinto Company Limited
Industrial & derelict
Historic ore-loading pier built by the Rio Tinto Company on the Huelva waterfront, an iron-framed structure once used to load mineral trains onto ships.
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Navantia Ferrol Shipyard
Industrial & derelict
State owned naval shipyard on the Ferrol estuary, with covered building halls, dry docks, gantry cranes, fitting out quays and heavy workshop interiors.
Nave Bellver
Industrial & derelict
Former sawmill in Tetuan converted into an events space, keeping its high ceilings, natural light and worn industrial character, now used for cultural events and shoots.
Dressing rooms, catering area, restrooms, vehicle access
Poligono Industrial Ceramica
Industrial & derelict
Small 1980s industrial estate in Puente de Vallecas, built as repetitive brick warehouses with two-pitched roofs along a single curved access street, used by small and medium local businesses.
Poligono Industrial Julian Camarillo
Industrial & derelict
Industrial estate built between the 1950s and 1970s near the M-30 and M-40 ring roads, mixing surviving factories, warehouses and workshops with converted offices, low-rise housing and some abandoned units.
Water Control Pavilion, Cristóbal Colón Power Station
Industrial & derelict
Water intake control building of the Cristóbal Colón combined-cycle power station on the Huelva estuary, a compact industrial structure among pipework and cooling infrastructure.
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Zona Industrial Villa de Vallecas
Industrial & derelict
A small industrial pocket of Villa de Vallecas with narrow streets, warehouses and low workshop buildings on distinctive corner plots, catalogued by Madrid Film Office.
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Theatres, arenas and venues in Spain 38
Auditoriums, concert halls, opera houses, cinemas, arenas and event spaces, with the backstage, foyers and dressing rooms that come with them. All 38 on their own page.
Arriaga Theatre
Theatre, arena & venue
Neo baroque city theatre of 1890 on the Bilbao riverbank, rebuilt after fire and flood, with a horseshoe auditorium, boxes, foyers and a stage house.
Auditorio Alfredo Kraus
Theatre, arena & venue
Concert hall by Oscar Tusquets at the end of Las Canteras beach, with a stone tower, symphony auditorium, chamber hall and foyers looking straight onto the Atlantic.
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Auditorio de Tenerife
Theatre, arena & venue
A sail-shaped concert hall on the Santa Cruz de Tenerife waterfront designed by Santiago Calatrava, with a curved white concrete shell around the main auditorium.
More than 15 multi-purpose spaces for events, described as having over 100 different corners, equipped with technical facilities for conferences and...
Auditorio El Batel
Theatre, arena & venue
Auditorium and congress centre sunk into the quay at Cartagena, with a main hall for about 1,400, chamber hall, glazed foyers and coloured cladding facing the harbour.
Baluarte
Theatre, arena & venue
Congress centre and auditorium of 2003 next to the citadel, faced in black Zimbabwe granite, with a 1,568 seat hall, chamber hall and large glazed foyers.
Camp Nou
Theatre, arena & venue
FC Barcelona's stadium in the Les Corts district, one of Europe's largest football grounds, with tiered stands, a museum and tour access during redevelopment.
Seen in: Goal! II: Living the Dream (2007)
Capacity: 99354 · The stadium includes a presidential box and VIP lounge, press rooms and television studios, and the FC Barcelona club museum.
Corral de Comedias de Almagro
Theatre, arena & venue
Open air courtyard playhouse of 1628 on the main square of Almagro, with wooden galleries on two levels, a raised stage and benches, still in use for festivals.
Estadio Mestalla
Theatre, arena & venue
Valencia CF's stadium near the city centre, one of Spain's older large football grounds, with pitch, stands and hospitality areas available through the club.
Estadio Nuevo Colombino
Theatre, arena & venue
Football stadium in Huelva, home ground of Recreativo de Huelva, with a modern bowl-shaped stand used for sports and crowd scenes.
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Estadio Ramón Sánchez-Pizjuán
Theatre, arena & venue
Sevilla FC's stadium in Nervión, built in 1958, with pitch, stands, dressing rooms, press areas and an adjoining sports complex of 13 pitches offered for filming.
Capacity: 43500
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Estadio Vallehermoso
Theatre, arena & venue
Municipal athletics stadium reopened in 2019 in Chamberi, with a partly covered 10,000-seat stand around a lime-green 400m track, a covered training straight and a natural grass infield.
Capacity: 10000 · Access control, offices, changing rooms, storage, technical rooms, covered training straight
Gran Teatro Falla
Theatre, arena & venue
Red brick neo Mudejar theatre in Cadiz opened in 1910, with a horseshoe auditorium in three tiers, painted ceiling, boxes and a horseshoe arched facade.
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Jameos del Agua
Theatre, arena & venue
Cesar Manrique venue built inside a collapsed lava tube, with an underground salt lake, a white terrace pool, a bar cut into rock and a concert cave used as an auditorium.
Kursaal Congress Centre
Theatre, arena & venue
1999 congress and concert building by architect Rafael Moneo on the San Sebastian seafront, two glass cube auditoria that host the San Sebastian Film Festival and rentable event spaces.
Madrid Arena
Theatre, arena & venue
Circular multipurpose arena with a glazed dome on the Casa de Campo exhibition ground, three connected floors, a retractable seating rack and a tunnel link to two neighbouring pavilions.
Retractable seating, changing rooms, dressing rooms, cafeteria, press boxes, vehicle access to the main floor, outdoor area for trucks and mobile...
Palacio de Festivales de Cantabria
Theatre, arena & venue
Regional performing arts centre of 1991 in Santander, with a main hall of about 1,600 seats, a chamber hall, wide marble foyers and backstage areas.
Palau Sant Jordi
Theatre, arena & venue
An indoor arena on Montjuïc designed by Arata Isozaki for the 1992 Olympics, used for concerts, sports events and large productions.
Riojaforum
Theatre, arena & venue
Conference and concert centre in Logrono, with an auditorium of about 1,000 seats, a multipurpose hall, meeting rooms and a glazed foyer beside the park.
Roman Theatre of Merida
Theatre, arena & venue
Roman theatre of 15 BC managed by the Consorcio de Merida, with a two storey columned stage front, semicircular stone seating for about 6,000 and the adjoining amphitheatre.
Teatre Principal de Palma
Theatre, arena & venue
Nineteenth century opera house in central Palma with a horseshoe auditorium, tiered boxes, painted ceiling, orchestra pit and a smaller studio hall.
Teatro Calderon
Theatre, arena & venue
City theatre of 1864 in Valladolid, restored in the 1990s, with a horseshoe auditorium of about 1,200 seats, tiers of boxes, foyers and a deep stage.
Teatro Campoamor
Theatre, arena & venue
Opera house of 1892 in Oviedo, rebuilt after the Civil War, with a horseshoe auditorium of about 1,300 seats, boxes, a large stage and formal foyers.
Teatro Guimera
Theatre, arena & venue
The oldest theatre in the Canaries, opened in 1851 in Santa Cruz de Tenerife, with a horseshoe auditorium, boxes, a neoclassical foyer and a domed corner facade.
Teatro La Latina
Theatre, arena & venue
900-seat theatre on the Plaza de la Cebada spread over three floors, with a lobby, club level and boxes, and an upper amphitheatre with good sightlines and acoustics.
Seen in: El Corte Ingles Emidio Tucci advert (2023)
Capacity: 900 · Lobby, stalls, club level, boxes, amphitheatre, dressing rooms, catering area, storage
Teatro Romea
Theatre, arena & venue
City theatre of 1862 in central Murcia with a horseshoe auditorium in three tiers, a painted dome, gilt boxes, a marble foyer and a classical portico.
Euskalduna Palace
Theatre, arena & venue
A congress and concert hall in Bilbao built in weathered steel on the site of the former Euskalduna shipyard, its shape referencing a ship's hull under construction.
ExpoMeloneras Convention Centre
Theatre, arena & venue
Purpose built congress centre at Meloneras with a large auditorium, column free exhibition halls, foyers and glazed frontage, usable as conference, gala or corporate interiors.
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Fira de Barcelona (Montjuïc venue)
Theatre, arena & venue
Barcelona's historic trade fair complex on Montjuïc by Plaça d'Espanya, with several exhibition halls and a central avenue used for conventions, launches and large events.
The Montjuic venue covers 150,000 square metres of exhibition space (own site).
Gran Teatre del Liceu
Theatre, arena & venue
Barcelona's main opera house on La Rambla, with a gilded horseshoe auditorium, a grand foyer and a stage house rebuilt after a 1994 fire.
MotorLand Aragon
Theatre, arena & venue
Motor racing complex at Alcaniz with a Grand Prix circuit, pit lane and garages, a technology park, karting and off road tracks and large paddock areas.
Palau de la Musica Catalana
Theatre, arena & venue
A Modernista concert hall in Barcelona by Lluis Domenech i Montaner, with a stained-glass skylight, sculpted facades and an ornate main auditorium.
Rentable spaces listed are the Concert Hall, Petit Palau, Foyer, Rehearsal Hall, Lluis Millet Room and a Terrace.
Plaza de Toros de Las Ventas
Theatre, arena & venue
Madrid's Neo-Mudejar bullring seating over 23,000, with brick and ceramic tile facades, tiered stands and an on-site bullfighting museum.
Puy du Fou Espana
Theatre, arena & venue
Historical show park outside Toledo with built medieval and Renaissance villages, a large night show arena, stage machinery, costume workshops and stables.
Recinto Ferial de Tenerife
Theatre, arena & venue
Trade fair and congress centre by Santiago Calatrava in Santa Cruz, with a wide ribbed concrete canopy, open exhibition floor, meeting rooms and loading access for large builds.
Riyadh Air Metropolitano
Theatre, arena & venue
Atlético Madrid's stadium in San Blas-Canillejas, built with conference and event functions alongside football, offering outdoor areas for private functions.
Santiago Bernabeu Stadium
Theatre, arena & venue
Real Madrid's stadium in central Madrid, seating over 80,000 under a retractable roof, with dressing rooms, a trophy room and pitch-level tour access.
Seen in: Goal! (2005)
Teatro Alameda, Tarifa
Theatre, arena & venue
Municipal cinema and theatre on the Alameda in Tarifa's old town, a public building used for screenings, performances and civic events on Spain's southernmost point.
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Teatro Central
Theatre, arena & venue
Contemporary theatre on the Isla de la Cartuja built for Expo 92, with a black box stage, flexible seating, technical galleries and a metal clad exterior.
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Transport and infrastructure in Spain 33
Stations, airports, ports, bridges, tunnels, metro lines and rolling stock, including disused stretches that can be closed off for a shoot. All 33 on their own page.
Bilbao Airport
Transport & infrastructure
Aena airport at Loiu with Santiago Calatrava's white winged terminal of 2000, a bright open concourse, glazed piers and aprons in a valley setting.
Bilbao Metro
Transport & infrastructure
A metro network known for Norman Foster's glass-tube station entrances, locally called fosteritos, running through Bilbao and under the Nervion estuary.
Canfranc International Railway Station
Transport & infrastructure
A Beaux-Arts railway station in the Pyrenees built for a cross-border line to France, its platforms and grand hall largely disused since 1970 and now under partial restoration.
Cuatro Vientos Airport
Transport & infrastructure
General-aviation aerodrome opened in 1911, 8km from central Madrid, mixed civil-military use with flying schools, hangars, workshops and three control towers, no scheduled passenger traffic.
Hangars, workshops, terminal building with cafeteria, parking for about 220 vehicles
Gran Canaria Airport
Transport & infrastructure
Aena run international airport at Gando with two runways, a long linear terminal, check in halls, boarding gates and apron areas, plus an adjoining air force base perimeter.
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Josep Tarradellas Barcelona-El Prat Airport
Transport & infrastructure
Spain's second busiest airport, run by Aena, with Ricardo Bofill's glass Terminal 1, long check in halls, boarding piers, aprons and a general aviation area.
Museo del Ferrocarril de Madrid
Transport & infrastructure
Spain's railway museum, housed in the former Delicias terminus with its 19th-century iron and glass trainshed, displaying historic locomotives and carriages.
Capacity: 2800 · Multiple hireable spaces: Nave Central 5,640 sqm (or a 3,240 sqm configuration, cocktail capacity 2,800), Nave de Fomento 422 sqm (cocktail 380), Sala...
Palma de Mallorca Airport
Transport & infrastructure
Aena run airport at Son Sant Joan, one of the busiest in Spain, with four passenger modules, long finger piers, baggage halls and two parallel runways.
Port of Alicante
Transport & infrastructure
City centre port with a cruise terminal, container and bulk quays, a marina, a long promenade quay and warehouses under the castle hill.
Port of Barcelona
Transport & infrastructure
Working Mediterranean port managed by a public authority, with container terminals, cruise quays, the older Port Vell basins, warehouses and a swing bridge.
Port of Gijon (El Musel)
Transport & infrastructure
Bulk cargo port west of Gijon, with coal and ore stockyards, unloading gantries, long breakwaters, container quays and a nearby steelworks and power plant.
Port of Sagunto
Transport & infrastructure
Industrial port north of Valencia, with bulk and steel quays, cranes and open storage yards, next to the surviving blast furnace and workshops of the old steelworks.
Port of Santander
Transport & infrastructure
Bay port with a ferry terminal for the United Kingdom, car export yards, bulk quays, warehouses and cranes, close to the city centre and the beaches.
Port of Vigo
Transport & infrastructure
Large fishing and cargo port on the Vigo ria, with fish market halls, container and car terminals, a cruise quay, shipyards and quaysides in the city centre.
Puerto de Bilbao
Transport & infrastructure
The port of Bilbao at the mouth of the Nervión estuary, with container terminals, quaysides and breakwaters managed by the Bilbao Port Authority.
Puerto de Las Palmas
Transport & infrastructure
The commercial and passenger port of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, with quaysides, terminal buildings and the Santa Catalina wharf, catalogued by Canary Islands Film Commission's ports category.
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Santa Justa Station
Transport & infrastructure
Seville's main railway station, a large modern terminus with a vaulted departure hall serving high-speed AVE trains and regional services across Andalusia.
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Tenerife South Airport
Transport & infrastructure
Aena run holiday airport at Reina Sofia with a single runway, open air walkways between terminal and gates, arrivals hall, apron and car park decks.
Teruel Airport
Transport & infrastructure
Airport used for aircraft storage, maintenance and dismantling, with rows of parked airliners on a wide apron, a long runway and hangars in dry open country.
Tower of Hercules
Transport & infrastructure
A still-operating Roman lighthouse on a headland outside A Coruna, the oldest lighthouse in continuous use in the world, refaced in granite in the 18th century.
Valencia Airport
Transport & infrastructure
Aena run airport at Manises with a single passenger terminal, glazed departure hall, aprons, a cargo area and adjoining general aviation hangars.
Vizcaya Bridge
Transport & infrastructure
A working transporter bridge over the Ria de Bilbao between Portugalete and Las Arenas, carrying a suspended gondola across the estuary since 1893, with a walkway on top.
Rentable spaces include four open-air terraces above the estuary, the elevated walkway (Pasarela, 50 metres above the estuary), and the gondola...
Adolfo Suárez Madrid-Barajas Airport
Transport & infrastructure
Madrid's main international airport, operated by Aena, with passenger terminals and airside areas listed under transport locations in the Madrid Film Office catalogue.
Four operational terminals (T4 opened February 2006); electrical hookup and a loading dock with restricted loading hours; production offices, dressing...
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Anden 0 (Chamberi Ghost Station)
Transport & infrastructure
A disused 1919 Madrid Metro station preserved with its original tiled advertisements and platform furniture, opened to the public as a small museum called Anden 0.
Cesar Manrique Lanzarote Airport
Transport & infrastructure
Aena run island airport near Arrecife with two passenger terminals, a single runway across lava ground, baggage halls, boarding gates and apron stands.
Fuerteventura Airport
Transport & infrastructure
The island airport of Fuerteventura, operated by Aena, catalogued by Canary Islands Film Commission under its airport locations.
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Huelva Bus Station
Transport & infrastructure
City bus station in Huelva with a covered concourse, ticket desks, numbered bays and coach apron, a plain working transport interior listed for filming.
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Ibiza Airport
Transport & infrastructure
Aena run island airport at Es Codolar with a single terminal, arrivals and departures halls, boarding gates, apron stands and a runway beside the salt pans.
Port of Palma
Transport & infrastructure
Working port run by the Balearic port authority, with cruise berths, ferry ramps, container quays, fuel jetties and marina pontoons under the cathedral skyline.
Port of Santa Cruz de Tenerife
Transport & infrastructure
Commercial and cruise port run by Puertos de Tenerife, with container terminals, ferry ramps, fuel jetties, warehouses and long quays right against the city centre.
Seville Airport
Transport & infrastructure
Aena run airport at San Pablo with a Rafael Moneo terminal of blue arched halls, check in rows, boarding gates, apron stands and a single runway on flat farmland.
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Soller Railway
Transport & infrastructure
A narrow-gauge heritage railway on Mallorca linking Palma to Soller through the Serra de Tramuntana, still running vintage wooden carriages dating from 1912.
Túneles M-30
Transport & infrastructure
Underground service galleries and technical chambers within Madrid's M-30 ring road tunnels, reaching about 60 metres deep, made available by the road operator for corridor and underground scenes.
Seen in: Perverso, 30 Monedas, ¡García!, Intergalactic
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Offices, schools and public buildings in Spain 31
Offices, town halls, courtrooms, libraries, universities and schools: the interiors most contemporary drama actually needs. All 31 on their own page.
Ateneo Mercantil de Valencia
Office, school & public building
Private members' institution on Plaza del Ayuntamiento with a 1930s marble staircase, a domed ballroom, panelled meeting rooms, a library and a rooftop terrace.
Complutense University of Madrid
Office, school & public building
A large 1930s university campus, Ciudad Universitaria, west of central Madrid, with monumental faculty buildings, an observatory and open lawns.
Conde Duque
Office, school & public building
A former 18th-century army barracks in Madrid with a long baroque facade and large parade-ground courtyards, converted into a public cultural centre.
Rentable spaces include Sala de Bovedas 1 and 2 (basement), the Auditorio/Sala de Conciertos, Sala Polivalente/Cafeteria, Sala de Exposiciones 2,...
Es Baluard Museum
Office, school & public building
Modern art museum set inside the Renaissance sea wall of Palma, mixing stone bastions and a water filled moat with concrete galleries and a rooftop terrace over the bay.
Gabinete Literario
Office, school & public building
Nineteenth century cultural society building on Plaza de Cairasco in Las Palmas, with a modernist facade, a gilded golden hall, library rooms and a restaurant terrace, available for hire.
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Hospital Real, Granada
Office, school & public building
Sixteenth century royal hospital that now houses the rectorate of the University of Granada, with four cloistered patios, a coffered library hall and plateresque doorways.
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Instituto Cervantes Headquarters
Office, school & public building
A 1918 former bank headquarters on Calle Alcala known as the Edificio de las Cariatides, with a caryatid facade, a stained glass domed lobby, a vault-turned-exhibition room and a rooftop terrace.
Lobby, exhibition hall, original elevators, main staircase, assembly hall, vault room, rooftop terrace
La Térmica
Office, school & public building
A provincial council cultural centre in Málaga with halls, a courtyard and exhibition spaces used for screenings and events, available for external space bookings.
Museo ABC de Dibujo e Ilustracion
Office, school & public building
Former Mahou brewery building from 1891 near Plaza Espana, refurbished into a museum of illustration with six floors around an interior courtyard, exposed brick and a 200 square metre main exhibition hall.
Main exhibition hall, glass room, cube room, mains power, extra production space, suitable for direct sound
Museo Nacional de Artes Decorativas
Office, school & public building
Decorative arts museum from 1912 in a 19th century Madrid townhouse near the Retiro park, with four floors of period rooms including a Valencian 18th century tiled kitchen and an Imperial staircase.
Museum of Human Evolution
Office, school & public building
Juan Navarro Baldeweg museum of 2010 on the Arlanzon in Burgos, with a fully glazed facade, open floor plates, wide ramps and daylit exhibition levels.
Paraninfo of the University of Zaragoza
Office, school & public building
Nineteenth century university building in central Zaragoza, with a brick and stone facade, a ceremonial assembly hall, galleried courtyard and museum rooms.
Public University of Navarre
Office, school & public building
Modern campus on the edge of Pamplona, with brick faculty blocks, lecture theatres, laboratories, a library, sports halls and open landscaped grounds.
Residencia de Estudiantes
Office, school & public building
Student residence founded in 1910 in a Mudejar-style cluster of pavilions from 1915, once home to Garcia Lorca, Dali and Bunuel, with a historic assembly hall, twin residential wings and a historic garden.
Assembly hall, twin residential pavilions, garden, office wing, rooftop, own parking with access to the building
Roque de los Muchachos Observatory
Office, school & public building
Astronomical observatory at 2,400 metres run by the Instituto de Astrofisica de Canarias, with white telescope domes, control rooms, service corridors and a ridge road above the clouds.
Seville City Hall
Office, school & public building
City hall between Plaza Nueva and Plaza de San Francisco, joining a carved plateresque wing to a nineteenth century front, with council chamber, staircase and offices.
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University of La Rioja
Office, school & public building
Compact city campus in Logrono, with brick and glass faculty buildings, lecture theatres, laboratories, a library and a sports centre around open squares.
University of Navarra Museum
Office, school & public building
Rafael Moneo museum of 2015 on the university campus, with concrete and glass galleries, a theatre, wide ramps and daylit halls suited to interior work.
University of Oviedo Historic Building
Office, school & public building
Sixteenth century university building in central Oviedo, with an arcaded stone courtyard, a ceremonial hall, historic library rooms and lecture theatres.
University of Salamanca
Office, school & public building
Spain's oldest university, with a 16th-century plateresque facade, cloisters and historic lecture halls set around Salamanca's old town.
Colegio Aleman de Madrid
Office, school & public building
German international school built in 2015 on a 34,700 square metre campus in Fuencarral, with a courtyard, assembly hall, sports hall and football pitch, filmed only outside term time.
Courtyard, assembly hall, sports hall, football pitch, production offices, dressing rooms, catering area, own parking
Comillas Pontifical University Building
Office, school & public building
Nineteenth century seminary building above Comillas by Domenech i Montaner and Gaudi's circle, with a long stone facade, cloisters, chapel and lecture rooms.
Oficinas Room Mate
Office, school & public building
Former 18th century tapestry factory palace in central Madrid, restored in 2011 as offices for the Room Mate hotel chain, with a soundproofed 450 square metre event hall, a small cinema and a rooftop terrace.
Soundproofed main hall, small screening room, rooftop terrace, freight lift, production offices, dressing rooms, catering area, own parking
Palacio de Cibeles / CentroCentro
Office, school & public building
Madrid's ornate former post office building on Plaza de Cibeles, now the city hall, with a public exhibition centre, a rooftop viewpoint and a domed central hall.
Rentable rooms include the Galeria de Cristal, the Pasaje Galeria de Cristal, the Patio de Operaciones, the Auditorio Caja de Musica, the Mirador (7th...
Palau de Congressos de Valencia
Office, school & public building
1998 convention centre by architect Norman Foster in northern Valencia, with a marble-clad hall, a large auditorium and multiple meeting rooms available for hire.
Technical University of Cartagena
Office, school & public building
University spread through restored military and civic buildings in Cartagena, with an old artillery barracks campus, lecture halls, laboratories and stone courtyards.
University of Alcala
Office, school & public building
A 16th-century university campus in Alcala de Henares, centred on the Colegio de San Ildefonso with its plateresque facade and a historic assembly hall.
University of La Laguna
Office, school & public building
Public university spread over La Laguna with a 1960s rectorate block, faculty buildings, lecture halls, laboratories and campus greens beside the UNESCO listed old town.
University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria (Tafira Campus)
Office, school & public building
Hillside university campus above Las Palmas with faculty blocks, lecture theatres, laboratories, a library and open plazas, giving modern institutional interiors and exteriors.
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University of Santiago de Compostela
Office, school & public building
University founded in 1495, with a neoclassical faculty building and cloister in the old town plus 20th century campuses, lecture halls and libraries.
University of Seville (Rectorado)
Office, school & public building
Seville's university rectorate housed in the former Royal Tobacco Factory, an 18th-century industrial building with long stone facades, courtyards and vaulted halls.
Bars, restaurants and shops in Spain 18
Cafes, bars, restaurants, markets, shops and shopping streets, the everyday interiors a schedule eats through quickly. All 18 on their own page.
Calle Laurel
Bar, restaurant & shop
Narrow old town street in Logrono lined with about fifty small tapas bars, each with its own dish, giving dense night time frontage and interiors.
Mercado Central de Valencia
Bar, restaurant & shop
A 1928 Art Nouveau market hall in central Valencia with domed ceilings, stained glass and stalls trading under an iron and tile structure.
Mercado de Abastos de Santiago
Bar, restaurant & shop
Granite market of 1941 built as eight linked stone halls in the old town, with fish, meat and produce stalls, arcades and small bars between the buildings.
Mercado de Colón
Bar, restaurant & shop
A 1916 modernist market hall in Valencia's Eixample designed by Francisco Mora, its original iron and glass structure now housing cafes and restaurants.
Total surface area of 3,500 square metres across 8 available spaces; the venue hosts more than 500 events a year (own site).
Mercado de la Esperanza
Bar, restaurant & shop
Iron and glass market hall of 1904 behind Santander city hall, with a fish and shellfish floor, produce stalls upstairs and a glazed roof over the aisles.
Mercado de la Ribera
Bar, restaurant & shop
A large Art Deco covered market on the Nervión riverbank in Bilbao's old town, with several trading floors of food stalls.
Mercado de San Miguel
Bar, restaurant & shop
A restored early 1900s cast-iron and glass market hall next to Plaza Mayor in Madrid, now a covered food and tapas market.
Mercado de Triana
Bar, restaurant & shop
Covered market on the Triana bank of the Guadalquivir, built over the remains of the castle of San Jorge, with fish, produce and tapas stalls under an iron and glass roof.
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Mercado de Vegueta
Bar, restaurant & shop
The oldest covered market in Las Palmas, opened in 1858 in the Vegueta old town, with an iron roofed hall, fish, meat and produce stalls and narrow surrounding streets.
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Mercat de Sant Antoni
Bar, restaurant & shop
Restored 1882 iron and glass market hall on a cross shaped plan, with food and clothing stalls, a Sunday book market and a basement showing Roman remains.
Museo Chicote
Bar, restaurant & shop
Art Deco cocktail bar on the Gran Via opened in 1931, with its original 1930s wood and chrome interior by Luis Gutierrez Soto intact, plus an in-house sound and lighting rig.
Storage area, catering area, dressing rooms, restrooms, vehicle access with restricted load/unload hours
Centro Comercial Arturo Soria Plaza
Bar, restaurant & shop
A 7,000 square metre shopping centre in Ciudad Lineal with two retail floors, renovated in 2019, listed on the Madrid Film Office catalogue with production offices and loading access.
Production offices, dressing rooms, catering space, storage, electric hookups, loading dock, parking
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Centro Comercial El Muelle
Bar, restaurant & shop
Shopping centre built over the Santa Catalina quay in Las Palmas, with glazed galleries, escalator atriums, chain stores, a cinema and rooftop views over the cruise berths.
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Chiringuito Serenade, Bolonia
Bar, restaurant & shop
Beach bar on Bolonia beach near Tarifa, a simple wood-built restaurant serving the dune-backed beach beside the Baelo Claudia Roman ruins.
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Mercado Central de Abastos, Cadiz
Bar, restaurant & shop
Neoclassical market of 1838 in the old town of Cadiz, a colonnaded square enclosing fish and produce stalls, with a modern food court along one side.
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Mercado de Anton Martin
Bar, restaurant & shop
Three-storey covered food market from the historic centre of Madrid, mixing traditional butcher, fishmonger and grocery stalls with newer restaurant units and a flamenco dance school on the top floor.
Freight lift, mains power, extra production space available, suitable for direct sound indoors
Mercado de Feria
Bar, restaurant & shop
Covered municipal market on Calle Feria in Seville's Macarena district, said to be the city's oldest, with iron-framed stalls selling fresh produce, fish and tapas bars.
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Mercado Municipal de Vallehermoso
Bar, restaurant & shop
A 1930 municipal market hall in Chamberí with a coloured corner facade, its stalls and storage areas offered for filming outside main trading hours.
Vehicle access, restricted loading hours, catering area, storage space, restrooms
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Film studios and backlots in Spain 14
Sound stages, backlots, water tanks and virtual production volumes you can hire, with the crew base and power that go with them. All 14 on their own page.
Ciudad de la Luz
Studio & backlot
Purpose-built studio complex beside the Mediterranean on the edge of Alicante, with large sound stages, exterior water tanks and production support buildings, reopened to shoots in 2022.
Seen in: Asterix at the Olympic Games (2008), The Impossible (2012)
Six sound stages from 1,620 to 2,340 m2 (Plato 3: 2,340 m2 and 2,000 kVA; Plato 4: 1,794 m2; Platos 1, 2, 5 and 6: 1,620 m2, 12.5 m high, 10 x 8 m...
Fort Bravo / Texas Hollywood
Studio & backlot
A permanent western style backlot in the Tabernas desert with a saloon, jail, church and ranch buildings, built for spaghetti westerns and still used for filming and photography.
Seen in: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, The Sisters Brothers, That Dirty Black Bag
Western town backlot with saloon, jail, church, ranch houses and stables; horse-drawn carriages and livestock on site; on-site restaurant/bar and...
297Studio
Studio & backlot
A column free 700 sqm sound stage in Leganes, south of Madrid, with a large cyclorama, dressing rooms and direct street level vehicle access for series, commercials and photo shoots.
Column-free main stage 21.8 x 30.6 m x 5.0 m high (about 700 sqm); cyclorama 11.55 m wide x 5.4 m deep x 3.9 m high; four dressing rooms with showers;...
A Punt Media Studios
Studio & backlot
Broadcast centre of the Valencian public media corporation at Burjassot, with television studios, news and drama sets, control galleries and technical support areas.
Banzai Studio
Studio & backlot
A 400 sqm soundproofed sound stage in an industrial estate in Badalona, near Barcelona, with two permanent cycloramas, used for commercials, music videos and virtual production.
Seen in: Gum, Alhambra, Celofan
400 sqm soundproofed, climate-controlled stage with 600 sqm of adjoining service areas; two permanent cycloramas in an L-infinity chroma-key...
CRTVG San Marcos Studios
Studio & backlot
Broadcast centre of the Galician public media company at San Marcos, Santiago, with television studios, news and drama sets, control rooms and technical areas.
Galaxia Studios
Studio & backlot
A studio complex in Paterna near Valencia with four sound stages from 200 to 1,000 square metres, production offices, dubbing studios and control rooms, beside the V-30 motorway.
Plato 1: 1,000 sq m, 28x40 m, 7 m to catwalks, 800 kW. Plato 2: 600 sq m, 17x34 m, 6.5 m, 500 kW. Plato 3: 400 sq m, 17x23 m, 6.5 m, 500 kW. Plato 4:...
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Gran Canaria Platos
Studio & backlot
A publicly owned studio complex on Gran Canaria with two large sound stages, one built as a virtual production volume with a curved LED wall, plus two backlot plots.
Seen in: The Abyss, Deep Water, The Penguin Lessons, Die drei Fragezeichen
Stage 1 (Estudio Virtual XR): 1,220 sqm rodaje zone (48 x 25 m), 12 m to catwalk, noise floor under 20 dBA, 400-1,200 kW power; LED volume with a 40 x...
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Madrid Content City
Studio & backlot
A production complex in Tres Cantos, north of Madrid, with two large sound stages, twelve smaller warehouse units, production offices and crew facilities, built on the former Secuoya Studios site.
Two sound stages of 2,350-2,800 sqm built (1,500-2,000 sqm usable recording space each, independently operable), plus 12 warehouse units of about 800...
Mini Hollywood (Oasys Parque Tematico)
Studio & backlot
A preserved western film set in the Tabernas desert built for 1960s Spaghetti Westerns, with a saloon, jail and main street still used for stunt shows and shoots.
Seen in: A Fistful of Dollars (1964), For a Few Dollars More (1965)
Western town set with saloon, stables, an Indian encampment and a photo studio with period costumes; a zoo reserve with more than 800 animals, an...
Palma Pictures
Studio & backlot
A production services company in Marratxi near Palma with a 1,000 square metre sound stage, production offices and in-house camera, grip and lighting kit for hire on Mallorca.
1,000 sq m sound stage (partly solar powered), on-site production offices, in-house camera, grip, lighting and location support equipment
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Parc Audiovisual de Catalunya
Studio & backlot
A former hospital in Terrassa converted into a studio park with four sound stages from 400 to 1,260 sqm, offices and interior sets, run by the city council and the Catalan government.
Plato 1: 1,200 sqm (38 x 28 m, 9.75 m to catwalk, 400 kW, 50 dB soundproofing, silent climate control). Plato 2: 600 sqm (28 x 18 m, 7.75 m, 200 kW,...
Proima Zebra Astur
Studio & backlot
A television production complex in Oviedo with four stages (1,268, 492 and 350 square metres, plus a 150 square metre chroma stage), built for broadcaster RTPA and hired out for other productions.
Seen in: Siempre al Día, Conexión Asturias, Asturias.Report, Babel
Plato 1: 1,268 sq m. Plato 2: 492 sq m. Plato 3: 350 sq m. Chroma stage: 150 sq m
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Robolt Studio
Studio & backlot
A virtual production studio in Madrid's Tetuan district with four stages, including an 800 sqm LED volume stage with a robotic motion-control rig, used for commercials and music videos.
Seen in: Erborian, Nike, Mutua Madrilena, Benidorm Fest
Capacity: 60 · Studio XL: 800 sqm, 7.2 m ceiling (4.5 m at sides), 12.16 x 4.32 m LED wall (1.8 mm pitch) plus a 5 x 3 m ceiling LED screen, robotic motion-control...
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Hospitals, prisons and institutions in Spain 12
Working and disused hospitals, clinics, prisons, barracks and asylums: corridors, wards and cells that are close to impossible to fake convincingly. All 12 on their own page.
Biblioteca de Catalunya (former Hospital de la Santa Creu)
Hospital, prison & institution
Fifteenth century hospital wards in the Raval, now the national library: long Gothic naves with pointed stone arches, reading rooms, a courtyard and a chapel.
Citadel of Pamplona
Hospital, prison & institution
Sixteenth century star shaped military citadel with bastions, moats, a powder magazine, an arsenal and barracks buildings, now a public park and exhibition space.
Fortalesa de la Mola
Hospital, prison & institution
Nineteenth century Isabel II fortress guarding the mouth of Mahon harbour, with gun galleries, tunnels, barrack blocks, a military prison and open glacis above the sea.
Hospital 12 de Octubre
Hospital, prison & institution
Large public hospital complex opened in 1973 in Usera, with a 15-storey red brick inpatient tower, a semicircular maternity building and a newer glass outpatient block around wide gardens and its own helipad.
Hospital de Sant Pau
Hospital, prison & institution
A former working hospital in Barcelona built as a campus of Art Nouveau pavilions with domes, mosaics and underground connecting tunnels, now a monument and event venue.
Capacity: 300 · Event spaces in the Administration Pavilion: the Lluis Domenech i Montaner Room (170 m2), Sala Pau Gil (245 m2), Francesc Cambo room (245 m2), the...
Hospital de Tavera
Hospital, prison & institution
Sixteenth century hospital outside the walls of Toledo, with a double marble patio, a church nave, a period pharmacy, a hospital ward and panelled palace rooms.
Antigua Carcel Provincial de Huelva
Hospital, prison & institution
Disused provincial prison in Huelva with cell wings, barred galleries, exercise yards and a gatehouse, held in the Andalusia Film Commission catalogue as a prison location.
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Casa Cuartel de la Guardia Civil, Aracena
Hospital, prison & institution
Civil Guard barracks in Aracena in the Sierra de Huelva, listed by the regional film commission under its heritage-architecture and prison-building category.
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Former Hospital de San Juan de Dios, Jaén
Hospital, prison & institution
Former hospital building in the historic centre of Jaén, listed by the regional film commission under historic centres and hospitals; coordinates mark the town centre.
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Institute of Legal Medicine and Forensic Sciences, Huelva
Hospital, prison & institution
Working forensic institute in Huelva with laboratories, examination rooms, corridors and an institutional entrance, offered through the Andalusia Film Commission catalogue.
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Jaen Air Raid Shelter
Hospital, prison & institution
Civil war air raid shelter under the centre of Jaen, a long brick vaulted tunnel system with benches, latrines and narrow stair entrances, open as a museum.
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La Model
Hospital, prison & institution
Barcelona's former Model prison in the Eixample, closed in 2017 after 113 years, now a memorial space with courtyard tours ahead of redevelopment into public facilities and housing.
Houses and apartments in Spain 9
Private houses, villas, apartments and period interiors available for filming, from workers' housing to architect-designed homes. All 9 on their own page.
Barrio Reina Victoria
House & apartment
Company housing estate built by the Rio Tinto Company from 1916 in Huelva, rows of low English style cottages with gables, porches, hedges and quiet planted streets.
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Casa Botines
House & apartment
Gaudi building of 1892 in central Leon, in grey stone with corner turrets and a moat, holding a restored warehouse floor, offices and period apartments.
Casa Vicens
House & apartment
Gaudi's first house, built 1883 to 1885 in Gracia, with tiled facades, stencilled and painted period rooms, a small garden and a roof terrace, open for hire.
Cesar Manrique Foundation (Taro de Tahiche)
House & apartment
The artist's former home at Tahiche, built over five volcanic bubbles, with white modernist rooms above and lava caves, a pool and a palm courtyard below ground.
Ciudad Pegaso
House & apartment
A 1955 workers housing estate in San Blas-Canillejas with low rise apartment blocks, single family homes, a parish church and shared sports ground, catalogued by Madrid Film Office.
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Palau Guell
House & apartment
Gaudi town mansion off La Rambla, with stone stables in the basement, a parabolic central hall, dark panelled reception rooms and a roof of tiled chimneys.
Villa Winter
House & apartment
Isolated 1940s house with a round tower on the Cofete plain under the Jandia massif, reached by a dirt track, with bare rooms, a walled garden and no near neighbours.
Hacienda La Buzona
House & apartment
Andalusian farmstead near Carmona built round a walled courtyard, with an olive press range, tower, stables and whitewashed living quarters in open countryside.
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Poblado Dirigido de San Cristóbal de los Ángeles
House & apartment
A 1959 social housing scheme in Villaverde built as open superblocks around courtyards, with two 12 and 14 storey towers and a surviving brick factory chimney, listed by Madrid Film Office.
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Hotels and interiors in Spain 9
Hotels, spas and their lobbies, ballrooms, bars and corridors, including closed or seasonal properties that can take over a whole unit. All 9 on their own page.
Hotel Alfonso XIII
Hotel & interiors
A 1928 regionalista hotel built for the Ibero-American Exposition in Seville, with mudejar and baroque details, columned courtyards and a tower, listed in Andalucía Film Commission's network of singular venues.
Seen in: The Crown, Berlin, Lawrence of Arabia
Standard electrical grid, production offices, limited technical parking, adjacent gardens
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Hotel Carlton
Hotel & interiors
Grand hotel of 1926 on Plaza Moyua, seat of the Basque government during the Civil War, with a stained glass rotunda, marble lobby and period bedrooms.
Hotel Maria Cristina
Hotel & interiors
Belle epoque hotel of 1912 on the Urumea in San Sebastian, with a marble lobby, ballroom, panelled bar and river facing suites, used during the film festival.
Real Casino de Murcia
Hotel & interiors
Nineteenth century members' club on Calle Traperia with a Moorish patio, a mirrored ballroom, a domed ladies' powder room, a library and billiard rooms, open to visitors.
Hacienda del Buen Suceso
Hotel & interiors
Nineteenth century manor house turned rural hotel outside Arucas, set in a working banana plantation, with courtyards, period rooms, gardens and volcanic stone facades.
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Hotel Oromana
Hotel & interiors
Hotel set among pinewoods above Alcalá de Guadaíra near Seville, a low-rise building with gardens and a pool used for period and contemporary hospitality scenes.
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Hotel Palacio Marques de la Gomera
Hotel & interiors
Eighteenth century baroque palace in Osuna working as a hotel, with a carved stone portal, arcaded patio, chapel, panelled salons and period bedrooms.
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Las Arenas Balneario Resort
Hotel & interiors
Seafront hotel on Malvarrosa beach built around a 1930s neoclassical bathing pavilion, with colonnades, a large pool terrace, ballrooms and sea view suites.
Santa Catalina, a Royal Hideaway Hotel
Hotel & interiors
Colonial style grand hotel of 1890 in Doramas Park, Las Palmas, with wooden balconies, a marble lobby, ballroom, period suites and a garden pool terrace.
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Historic towns and streets in Spain 5
Old towns, squares and streets that can double for a period without dressing out a modern skyline. Historic towns and streets across Europe.
Albarracin
Historic town & street
Walled hill town of pink plastered houses, wooden balconies and stepped lanes above a river gorge, with a castle, cathedral and long stretch of town wall.
Belchite (old town)
Historic town & street
The ruined shell of a town destroyed in the 1937 Battle of Belchite, left standing as a memorial with intact facades, a bell tower and rubble-filled streets open to visitors.
Seen in: The Adventures of Baron Munchausen (1988), Pan's Labyrinth (2006)
Garachico
Historic town & street
Small port town on the north coast rebuilt after the 1706 eruption, with cobbled colonial streets, balconied houses, convents, a sea castle and lava rock pools.
Poble Espanyol
Historic town & street
Open-air architecture museum on Montjuic built for the 1929 exhibition, recreating streets and squares from across Spain with more than 100 full-scale building facades, workshops and courtyards.
Casco Histórico y Mercado de Villa de Vallecas
Historic town & street
The old quarter of Villa de Vallecas in southeast Madrid, with its historic square and adjoining municipal market, catalogued by Madrid Film Office for street and market scenes.
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Mountains and wilderness in Spain 5
Mountains, moors, volcanic ground, glaciers and empty terrain, where access and weather decide the schedule. Mountains and wilderness across Europe.
Bardenas Reales
Mountains & wilderness
A semi-desert badlands landscape in southern Navarre with eroded clay buttes, plateaus and canyons, crossed by marked tracks inside a managed nature reserve.
Ciudad Encantada
Mountains & wilderness
A karst rock park near Cuenca where erosion has carved limestone into towers and shapes along a signed walking route through pine forest.
Tabernas Desert
Mountains & wilderness
Europe's only true desert, with eroded badlands, dry riverbeds and surviving western town sets from the spaghetti-western era.
Seen in: Lawrence of Arabia (1962), The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1966), Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989)
Teide National Park
Mountains & wilderness
High volcanic caldera around the Teide summit at over 2,000 metres, with lava fields, ochre rock towers, cinder plains and long empty access roads used as off world terrain.
Seen in: One Million Years B.C., Clash of the Titans, Wrath of the Titans, Fast & Furious 6
Timanfaya National Park
Mountains & wilderness
A national park on Lanzarote covering volcanic terrain formed by 18th-century eruptions, with lava fields, craters and a visitor route by coach.
Modern architecture in Spain 5
Contemporary buildings with a strong shape: museums, concert halls, campuses, glass towers and brutalist concrete. Modern architecture across Europe.
Centro Botin
Modern architecture
Renzo Piano arts centre of 2017 raised on columns over Santander bay, with two curved ceramic clad volumes, glazed walkways, an auditorium and gallery floors.
City of Culture of Galicia
Modern architecture
A hilltop complex of curved stone and glass buildings by Peter Eisenman above Santiago de Compostela, combining library, museum and archive functions on wide open plazas.
Capacity: 800 · Nine main rentable spaces: the Fontan Auditorium (836 m2, 694 seats, dividable), CINC's Auditorium 1 (177 seats), Auditorium 2 (106 seats) and...
Guggenheim Museum Bilbao
Modern architecture
Frank Gehry's titanium clad museum of 1997 on the Nervion, with a tall atrium, curved galleries, a 130 metre long hall and riverside terraces.
Seen in: The World Is Not Enough
City of Arts and Sciences
Modern architecture
A cluster of white concrete and glass structures by Santiago Calatrava and Felix Candela beside the old Turia riverbed, including a planetarium dome, an opera house, a science museum and an oceanarium.
Six buildings (Palau de les Arts Reina Sofia, Hemisferic, Museu de les Ciencies, Umbracle, Agora and Oceanografic) across a 350,000 m2 site along a...
Laboral Ciudad de la Cultura
Modern architecture
Former 1950s vocational university complex in Gijon, one of Spain's largest buildings, with a tall tower, a domed theatre and courtyard, now a cultural centre offering spaces for hire and its own filming rental process.
Palaces and landmarks in Spain 4
Palaces, state rooms and recognisable landmarks, the places an establishing shot is built around. Palaces and landmarks across Europe.
Palacio de la Magdalena
Palace & landmark
Early 20th century royal summer residence on its own peninsula park in Santander, English and Montanes-style architecture, now a summer university campus that also hosts conferences and weddings.
Real Alcázar of Seville
Palace & landmark
Mudéjar royal palace complex in central Seville with tiled courtyards, arched ceremonial halls and lush formal gardens.
Seen in: Lawrence of Arabia (1962), Kingdom of Heaven (2005), Game of Thrones (season 5, Dorne)
Palacio de la Aljaferia
Palace & landmark
Fortified 11th century Moorish palace in Zaragoza, with horseshoe arches and a courtyard garden, later remodelled by the Catholic Monarchs and now home to the Aragonese regional parliament.
Palacio Domecq
Palace & landmark
A historic sherry house palace in Jerez de la Frontera, listed in Andalucía Film Commission's network of singular private venues.
Standard electrical network on site; production offices not available (own site).
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Castles and estates in Spain 3
Castles, fortresses, manor houses and country estates, usually with grounds, outbuildings and period interiors in one place. Castles and estates across Europe.
Castillo de Almodóvar del Río
Castle & estate
A restored medieval hilltop castle above the Guadalquivir in Almodóvar del Río, listed in Andalucía Film Commission's network of singular private venues.
Industrial-grade power supply and production offices available on site (own site).
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Peniscola Castle and Old Town
Castle & estate
Templar sea castle on a rock joined to the shore by a sand bar, with vaulted halls, ramparts and a walled white town of narrow streets below.
Seen in: Game of Thrones, El Cid, Calabuch
Castell de Bellver
Castle & estate
Gothic circular hilltop castle overlooking Palma, built in the early 14th century as a royal residence, later used as a military prison, now a history museum with spaces the city council makes available for hire.
Coast and beaches in Spain 3
Beaches, cliffs, harbours and coastline, including stretches that can be closed off in the off season. Coast and beaches across Europe.
Itzurun Beach and Basque Coast Geopark Flysch
Coast & beach
Beach at Zumaia backed by vertical flysch rock layers, part of a protected geopark, with wave cut platforms, cliffs and a hermitage on the headland.
Seen in: Game of Thrones
Playa de las Catedrales
Coast & beach
A tidal beach at Ribadeo shaped by sea arches and cliffs up to 30 metres high, fully walkable only at low tide and reached with a free timed permit in summer.
Corralejo Dunes Natural Park
Coast & beach
A protected dune field and beach on the north coast of Fuerteventura, with shifting white sand hills managed by the island council.
Cities and skylines in Spain 1
Skylines, rooftops, viewpoints and city panoramas for establishing shots. Cities and skylines across Europe.
Benidorm Levante Seafront
City & skyline
Dense high rise seafront on Levante beach, with towers, a curved promenade, bar and hotel frontage and a skyline used to stand in for larger resort cities.
Churches and monasteries in Spain 1
Cathedrals, churches, chapels, monasteries and cloisters, plus the crypts and refectories behind them. Churches and monasteries across Europe.
Fundacion Carlos de Amberes
Church & monastery
Private cultural foundation in a former 1584 church in the Salamanca district, protected as a site of cultural interest, with its chapel, two exhibition rooms and an auditorium with a dressing room and translation booth.
Chapel, two exhibition rooms, auditorium with dressing room and translation booth, terrace access