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 Contreras, Burgos (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 Ramírez, and mercenary Angel Eyes.

Sad Hill Cemetery
Cementerio de Sad Hill
Interactive map of Sad Hill Cemetery
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