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Seeing these unique landscapes of the Segrià region in La Vanguardia’s Readers’ Photos, we imagine Clint Eastwood pursued by the Ugly and the Bad, under the master baton of Sergio Leone and with the immortal soundtrack of Ennio Morricone.
These hard and beautiful lands are located a short distance from the fertile fruit fields of Aitona, Seròs, Alcarràs and other nearby towns.
It is a landscape that reminds us of scenes from the Far West movies or, rather, the spaghetti western if we continue with the simile of the films of Sergio Leone and Clint Eastwood.
Most spaghetti western films were filmed in Cinecittà (Italy) and in Spain. For example, some famous films of this subgenre were set in the steppe lands of Fraga (Huesca), not far from the lands of Lleida.
And many other films, such as Il buono, il brutto, il cattivo, were filmed in the towns of Hoyo de Manzanares (on the outskirts of Madrid), the province of Burgos, La Calahorra, near Guadix (Granada) and the desert of Taverns (Almería).
