Where was King of Kings filmed?

1961 film of the life of Jesus Christ

King of Kings (1961) was filmed in Madrid and Almería — 2 recorded filming locations in Spain. Every one is a filming-location statement on Wikidata, not a guess.

See them on the map → Wikipedia Source data

Filming locations

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  🏙 Towns & cities

  Almería

  🇪🇸 Spain

  municipality and capital of the province of Almeria, Spain

  “In Almería, the Rambla de Lanujar used for the wilderness where Jesus was tempted.” Wikipedia

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  🏙 Towns & cities

  Madrid

  🇪🇸 Spain

  capital of Spain

Also per Wikipedia's Filming section

Wikipedia’s Filming section names 8 more places. A sentence in an article is weaker evidence than a Wikidata statement, so these are listed apart, never mixed into the statement list, and the claim links straight to where it came from.

Places whose own article says it was shot there

1 place whose own Wikipedia article names this film as something shot there, where Wikidata records nothing and this film’s own article does not say so either. The weakest evidence on this atlas: no pin on the map, and nothing in the downloads. Each sentence is quoted whole and linked to the article it came from, so it can be judged rather than taken on trust.

• Chinchón Spain

  “In 1961 a crowd of 7,000 local extras were recruited in Chinchón - and the neighbouring villages - for the Sermon on the Mount scene in Samuel Bronston's production of King of Kings, directed by Nicholas Ray, shot on the rocky hills around the Castilian town.” Wikipedia

Recorded only at country level

Wikidata also records this film as shot in Spain, without saying where. Those statements are true but unmappable — a pin in the middle of a country would claim something nobody wrote — so they are listed here instead of guessed at.

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Set in the same places

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More filmed in Spain

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