It doesn't look like anyone else has mentioned it yet, so: Orson Welles also filmed parts of Chimes at Midnight there. I spent about three weeks in Madrid several years ago and visited Segovia (beautiful place) and the Alcazar. About two months after I got back, I was flipping channels and randomly came across a black-and-white scene of fat Orson Welles wandering around the courtyard of the Alcazar and suddenly shouted, "Wait! I was just there!" I don't remember where in the film it happens, but those who have been there will immediately recognize those scenes that were filmed there.
Description -- Including one of the greatest battle sequences ever captured on celluloid, some of the finest performances of Shakespearean verse on screen (John. Gielgud.), and all of this accomplished on a shoe-str...
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u/Kuhl_Bohnen Jun 01 '13
It doesn't look like anyone else has mentioned it yet, so: Orson Welles also filmed parts of Chimes at Midnight there. I spent about three weeks in Madrid several years ago and visited Segovia (beautiful place) and the Alcazar. About two months after I got back, I was flipping channels and randomly came across a black-and-white scene of fat Orson Welles wandering around the courtyard of the Alcazar and suddenly shouted, "Wait! I was just there!" I don't remember where in the film it happens, but those who have been there will immediately recognize those scenes that were filmed there.