Industrial and derelict locations to film in Spain
43 of them, 26 with a photo and 4 with practical details the location publishes itself. Every entry links to the location or to the body that manages it.
Factories, warehouses, power stations, mines, depots and abandoned buildings: raw space, hard surfaces and the kind of decay that is impossible to build.
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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Industrial and derelict locations elsewhere in Europe
- Germany 48
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- Italy 30
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- Czech Republic 22
- Netherlands 15
- Greece 14
- Romania 13
- Portugal 11
- Hungary 10
- Serbia 10
Other kinds of location in Spain
- Theatres, arenas and venues 38
- Offices, schools and public buildings 31
- Transport and infrastructure 33
- Film studios and backlots 14
- Hospitals, prisons and institutions 12
- Houses and apartments 9
- Hotels and interiors 9
- Bars, restaurants and shops 18
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