Sad Hill Cemetery

Sad Hill Cemetery (Spanish: Cementerio de Sad Hill; Italian: Cimitero di Sad Hill) is a tourism site and former film location in northern Spain, designed by Carlo Simi in 1966^[1] and built by the Spanish Army.^[2]

Sad Hill seen from an aerial point of view. The circle in the centre is the location for the epic Mexican standoff between bounty hunter Blondie, bandit Tuco Ramìrez, and mercenary Angel Eyes.

Sad Hill Cemetery
Cementerio de Sad Hill
Details
Established	1966
Abandoned	1966
Location	Santo Domingo de Silos, Burgos
Country	Spain
Coordinates	41.990429°N 3.408454°W / 41.990429; -3.408454 (Sad Hill)
Type	Movie set
Style	Western
Owned by	Asociación Cultural Sad Hill
No. of interments	0
No. of cremations	0
Website	http://www.acsadhill.es/

Significance

Sad Hill Cemetery is where the last sequence was filmed for the film The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1966).^[3] It was rebuilt in 2015.^[4] The reconstruction was recorded in the documentary Sad Hill Unearthed (2017) by Guillermo de Oliveira.^[5]

Status

In 2017, the Asociación Cultural Sad Hill (Sad Hill Cultural Association) planned to name Sad Hill Cemetery a Bien de Interés Cultural.^[6]

In 2024, the Sabinares del Arlanza Natural Park announced a plan to rebuild the Betterville prisoner camp at its filmed location about 6 km from Sad Hill. The stockade will be rebuilt using thousands of Juniperus thurifera that burned in 2022 in Santo Domingo de Silos.^[7]

See also

• Spaghetti Western
• Cinema of Italy

References

1. "Rescatan del olvido el cementerio de "El bueno, el feo y el malo"" [They rescue from oblivion the cemetery of "The Good, the Bad and the Ugly"]. Canal Patrimonio (in Spanish). 26 July 2016. Retrieved 7 July 2017.
2. Rodríguez Pontevedra, Silvia (19 October 2018). "Cuando el Ejército de Franco construyó el cementerio de 'El bueno, el feo y el malo'" [When Franco's Army built the cemetery of 'The Good, the Bad and the Ugly']. El País (in Spanish). Pontevedra. Retrieved 2 January 2019.
3. Alonso, J. F. (18 October 2018). "La verdadera historia del cementerio burgalés de "El bueno, el feo y el malo"" [The true story of the Burgos cemetery of "The Good, the Bad and the Ugly"]. ABC (in Spanish). Grupo Vocento. Retrieved 2 January 2019.
   - Kassam, Ashifa (29 November 2015). "The Good, The Bad and The Dilapidated: cemetery where Eastwood became a star gets revamp". The Guardian.
   - Jone, Sam (22 June 2017). "The Good, the Bad and the Ugly's graveyard comes back from the dead". The Guardian.
4. "Un documental recoge la recuperación del cementerio de 'El Bueno, El Feo y El Malo'" [A documentary collects the recovery of the cemetery of 'The Good, the Bad and the Ugly']. Europa Press (in Spanish). 18 June 2017. Retrieved 2 January 2019.
5. "'Sad Hill Unearthed', el documental sobre la reconstrucción del cementerio de 'El bueno, el feo y el malo'" ['Sad Hill Unearthed', the documentary on the reconstruction of the cemetery of 'The Good, the Bad and the Ugly']. Libertad Digital (in Spanish). 29 June 2016. Retrieved 2 January 2019.
   - Conde, Arturo Conde (February 26, 2019). "Why do spaghetti Western fans pilgrimage to Spain? The curious history, explained". NBC News.
6. Rodríguez Pontevedra, Silvia (14 June 2017). "Todos quieren su tumba en el cementerio burgalés de 'El bueno, el feo y el malo'" [Everyone wants their grave in the Burgos cemetery of 'The Good, the Bad and the Ugly]. El País (in Spanish). PRISA. Retrieved 2 January 2018.
   - Hedgecoe, Guy (2 August 2017). "The Good, the Bad and the Ugly location reborn in Spain". BBC News.
7. Camazón, Alba (22 January 2024). "Burgos recreará el campo de prisioneros de 'El bueno, el feo y el malo' con madera quemada en el incendio de 2022" [Burgos will recreate the prisoner camp of 'The Good, The Bad and the Ugly' with wood burnt in the 2022 fire]. elDiario.es (in Spanish). Retrieved 23 January 2024.

External links

• Official website
• Sad Hill Cemetery on Twitter