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Clint Eastwood and spaghetti western near Burgos.

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Many years ago after I fininished my camino my husband and I drove down to visit Santo Domingo de Silos and stopped at Sad Hill for a while. The landscape was gorgeous.

For more on this forum re Sad Hill Cemetery see this earlier thread Blondie, Angel Eyes And Tuco.

Enjoy the landscape and the memories.
 
Hello. We are starting from Almeria in less than two weeks and the first stage has a recommended stop where their is a Spaghetti western museum. We also will walk where many Sergio Leone westerns were filmed and other shows/ movies like Game of Thrones and Conan the barbarian. I've taken the train from Granada to Almeria earlier this year and from the landscape vowed to go back for the hike so here we go. As we looked out the train window that day we were half expecting to see a lone rider on a hilltop gazing out over yonder plain ever reminding us of those childhood westerns. Thanks for you post
 
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We visited Sad hill cemetery a couple of years ago while doing a driving tour of Northern Spain.

So worth a visit and very difficult to remember that it’s not a real cemetery.
 
The other option would be to walk the Camino de la Lana from Alicante and you would pass by Santo Domingo de Silos directly.
Still a quite, less trodden Camino.
 
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I stayed at the monastery at Santo Domingo de Silos last year and walked out to Sad Hill. There had been a lot of wildfires in the area and much of the vegetation was destroyed.
 
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I stayed at the monastery at Santo Domingo de Silos last year and walked out to Sad Hill. There had been a lot of wildfires in the area and much of the vegetation was destroyed.
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Google Maps has some photos taken a day ago and an aerial view from a couple of weeks ago. My opinion is that the place looks like it is still worth a visit by fans.

Sad hill cemetery · Contreras, Burgos

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From Santo Domingo de Silos (on the Lana) there is a well-marked local path to the Sad Hill Cemetery. Unfortunately, I told @C clearly we should follow my wikiloc tracks, which involved crawling through a barbed wire fence. But we made it! Next time, I will stay on the local trail.

From Sad Hill, we took another detour, to the monastery of San Pedro de Arlanza, also an important Good Bad Ugly site. The monastery has undergone many years of restoration and is very atmospheric to visit. And from the monastery we took local trails into Covarrubias, back onto the Lana.


If you are walking the Lana, and if you have time, going from Santo Domingo to Covarrubias via those two sites turns 17 km into 28 or 29, but it was really worth it. And staying a night in Covarrubias was really very pleasant, too. It’s a very prettified town with charm and not too many tourists when we were there.
 
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This morning YouTube presented me with a recent video discussing the music in the background of the Sad Hill Cemetery scene. Someone added a comment on the YouTube page that Leone actually was playing the music while filming the scene.

YouTube video id: 64Izw09Z8hM
 
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