Film tourism
An unbeatable setting for filming movies and TV series
The monumental wealth of Nuevo Baztán and its attractive, peaceful Historic Complex have long provided an ideal backdrop for the film and television industry.
Between 1950 and 1980, more than a dozen productions—many of them belonging to the Spaghetti Western genre—were recorded and filmed in the square and in the corners of Nuevo Baztán, transforming it into any imaginary village or city.
In recent years it has also become a setting and filming location for well-known series such as Los Serrano, Un paso adelante, Los hombres de Paco, Sin identidad, and Las Chicas del Cable. It is common to find extras, cameras, props… turning the Historic Complex into a genuine film set.
The Community of Madrid’s Film Office, “Film Madrid”, includes Nuevo Baztán among the towns selected to encourage and promote filming within the Community of Madrid. This office, created with the aim of supporting the audiovisual industry by collaborating with Spanish and foreign audiovisual producers, as well as with professionals across the sector, developed a location database for shoots that includes urban and natural spaces of incalculable heritage and landscape value.
Far West Territory
The Community of Madrid has created its own film route featuring the main Western-related film sets, covering more than 30 municipalities. Of the four routes organised by the region, the Eastern Route includes Torremocha de Jarama, Talamanca de Jarama, Algete, Daganzo de Arriba, Alcalá de Henares and Nuevo Baztán.
Ennio Morricone, Sergio Leone and Terence Hill (El Genio, 1975), or Alain Delon (El Zorro, 1975) are some of the faces that could be seen in Nuevo Baztán in the 1970s. Other Spaghetti Westerns filmed here include “The Return of the Magnificent Seven” (1966, directed by Burt Kennedy), “Sugar Colt” (1966, directed by Franco Giraldi), “The Mercenary” (1968, by Sergio Corbucci), “The Crazy Bunch” (1975, Enzo G. Castellari) or “The Three Musketeers” (Richard Lester, 1973)
Most of them showcased Plaza de Fiestas, the Palace, or some corners of the historic centre, whose intact appearance turned it into an international-level cinematic attraction.
Fantastic Madrid
In addition, Nuevo Baztán is also part of the locations that served as settings for fantasy and horror films from the 1960s to the 1980s. This genre required unique spaces and locations, gloomy areas, and castles or distinctive buildings.
To this end, the Community of Madrid produced a guide in which Nuevo Baztán appears on the Eastern Route thanks to the filming of the movie Ceremonia Sangrienta, directed by filmmaker Jorge Grau in 1973, an emblematic title of Spanish “fantaterror”. In it, the Juan de Goyeneche Palace served as the residence of the evil countess, played by Lucía Bosé.
