Lights! Camera! Action! http://www.paladarytomar.com/blog/sevilla-cinema-city/ Te invito a leer mi artículo publicado en el ‪Lifestyle‬ Magazine 'Paladar y tomar' sobre una Sevilla de ‪Cine‬. The camera seductress. A different perspective of the Roman Hispalis: "If you are planning a trip to the city of Seville‬, you have to remember that this corner of the South is filled with movie settings. Not only because of the places and memories throughout its long history, but also because it has been the stage where numerous films, that have walked cinema screens around the world, have been made". Full New: http://www.paladarytomar.com/blog/sevilla-cinema-city/

1. Photograph: David Sánchez
Lights! Camera! Action!
If you are planning a trip to Seville, you may be interested to know that this corner of the South is filled with
movie settings.
Not only because of all the fascinating historic buildings created throughout its long history, but also because
numerous films shown on cinema screens around the world have been shot in this stunning city.
Sevilla seduces the camera, and draws it to her magnificent monuments and buildings – a dream that becomes
reality.
In the Andalusian capital, many movies and TV series of all genres have been filmed; the most recent one was
the fifth season of Game of Thrones, shot in the Alcazar palace. So if you want to include in your traveling
schedule, a different perspective of the ancient Roman Hispalis, we have a cinema route which takes you
through its narrow streets, ancient monuments and landscapes, where you will see the best scenes. Join this
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2. expedition for movie lovers – Lights! Camera! Action!
Tom Cruise chose Andalusia to film the movie Knight and Day (2010). Cadiz and Seville were chosen in order to
recreate the festival of San Fermin in the Real Maestranza de Sevilla. This movie, starring Cruise and Cameron
Diaz, is filled with motorcycle action scenes. In Seville, Casa de Pilatos, the Cathedral, the Archbishop’s Palace in
Plaza Virgen de los Reyes, the Giralda, the Alcazar, Plaza San Francisco and Plaza Nueva were the locations that
served as the stage for this romantic action comedy.
Captain Alatriste (2006), whose protagonist was played by Viggo Mortensen, takes place in the cities of Úbeda
and Baeza (Province of Jaén), Cadiz and Seville. In the city of Seville, sequences recorded at the iconic Casa de la
Moneda (the Royal House of the Currency), where the famous actress Maria de Castro (Alatriste’s lover)
premiered a Quevedo work. The Monastery of St. Jerome in Santiponce, a few kilometers from the city center,
also served as a setting for the swordsman.
Photograph: David Sánchez
But perhaps among the highest-grossing films that have been shot in Seville, Star Wars. Episode II: Attack of the
Clones (2002), takes the top spot. For the film, Plaza de España became the set for the city of Theed, where
Anakin Skywalker and Princess Padme Amidala, played by Natalie Portman (who went under the name of
Sophie during her stay in Seville), are seen walking over the bridge and along the colonnade. This false identity
set the general tone for the filming crew during their time spent in the city, however the attempt to hide her
true identity from the general public was in vain. Inevitably, a crowd of journalists surrounded the set, and
anonymity was ultimately impossible.
Plaza de España, the crowning point in the career of its architect Aníbal González, was also key in the filming of
epic masterpiece Lawrence of Arabia (1962) directed by David Lean and featuring the legendary Peter O’Toole;
another location was Casa de Pilatos (House of Pilate).
Ridley Scott‘s film, Kingdom of Heaven (2005) was another movie that utilised the House of Pilate and the
Alcazar, monuments that had also appear in one of his earlier movies: 1492: Conquest of Paradise (1992) which
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3. was released to coincide with the fifth centenary of the Discovery of America – also the year of Expo 1992 in
Seville.
The passageways of Santa Cruz, the medieval quarter where Jews, Muslims and Christians lived, were featured in
the Spanish movie Nobody Knows Anybody (1999). Its protagonists roamed these passageways at gunpoint,
putting their lives at stake. The Church of The Saviour, the second-largest Catholic church in the city after the
Catedral, built on the ancient mosque of Ibn Abbas Caliphate, and the Expo ’92 site, are other locations in this
thriller, that sees the city brought to a halt by a role-playing gamers involved in a deadly battle.
One of the most international works, based on the figure of the Sevillian cigarette girl Carmen (2003), was
filmed at the University of Seville (the former tobacco factory), Patio de las Banderas (Courtyard of Flags), Juderia
and Agua streets, as well as other alleyways from the neighborhood of Santa Cruz (the Holy Cross).
Sevilla’s Provincial Towns Take A Supporting Role
The filming of the globally famous series Game of Thrones in the Osuna bullring, or of the thriller Marshland
shot in Puebla del Río, both show that Seville’s towns are also an object of desire for other film production
companies. Fanny Ardant gave life to the soprano Maria Callas in Callas Forever (2002) in the town of Osuna. In
Carmona, another town close to the capital, much of the movie Manolete (2008) was filmed; its Dutch-
American writer gave life to the Adrien Brody’s character as the renowned Spanish bullfighter. Here is one last
surprising fact: did you know that in the Sevillian town of Cazalla de la Sierra you can find the location for the
dressmaking factory of the Japanese dancer Yumiko Takeshima? This is where the spectacular custome worn by
Natalie Portman in the movie Black Swan (2010) was designed and produced.
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