Variety breaks down over 40 top locations across Spain, and just a few, often recent, major shoots in their region, city or area: The only populated island off Alicante’s coast, a 25-minute ferry ride from Alicante, on Spain’s Mediterranean coast, with a near perfectly preserved 1950s style Spanish village, embattlement walls, big sunsets, a marine reserve.
Alicante, a bustling port-resort, also houses the reopened Ciudad de la Luz film studios. Shoots: “La ley del mar” (Alberto Ruiz Rojo), “Route to Bethlehem,” and “Sharks” (Xavier Gens), the Netflix series which used the Ciudad’s water tank.
Find prime Moorish architecture in Granada, site of the stunning Alhambra and nearby Sierra Nevada, where J.A. Bayona’s “Society of the Snow” shot snow scenes.
Pictured the Puerta Monaita, built in the 11th century and one of the oldest still-standing gateways into Granada’s once Moorish old quarter.
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