Where was Once Upon a Time in the West filmed?
1968 film by Sergio Leone
Once Upon a Time in the West (1968) was filmed at 3 places in Spain and Italy: Almería, La Calahorra and Cinecittà. Every place comes from Wikidata.
Part of the America trilogy
Filming locations
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Towns & cities
Almería
Spain
Municipality and capital of the province of Almeria, Spain
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Studios & sets
Cinecittà
Italy
Film studio in Rome, Italy
“Interiors for the film were shot in Cinecittà studios, Rome.” Wikipedia
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Towns & cities
La Calahorra
Spain
Municipality of Spain
“Shooting for scenes at Cattle Corner Station, as the location was called in the story, was scheduled for four days and was filmed at the "ghost" railway station in the municipality of La Calahorra, near Guadix, in the Province of Granada, Spain, as were the scenes of Flagstone.” Wikipedia
Also per Wikipedia's article
The Wikipedia article names 10 more places. Each links to the sentence that says so.
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Landscapes & nature
Monument Valley
United States
Basin of the Colorado Plateau on the Arizona–Utah border in the western United States
“The brick arch, where Bronson's character flashes back to his youth and the original lynching incident, was built near a small airport 15 miles (24 km) north of Monument Valley, in Utah, and two miles from U.S. Route 163 (which links Gouldings Lodge and Mexican Hat).” Wikipedia
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Towns & cities
Rome
Italy
Capital and largest city of Italy
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Landscapes & nature
Tabernas Desert
Spain
Desert in Spain
“Scenes at the Sweetwater Ranch were filmed in the Tabernas Desert, Spain; the ranch is still located at what is now called Western Leone.” Wikipedia
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Towns & cities
Tabernas
Spain
Municipality of the province of Almería, in Spain
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Towns & cities
Guadix
Spain
Municipality in Granada, Spain
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Towns & cities
Granada
Spain
Municipality and capital of the province of Granada, Spain
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Towns & cities
Moab
United States
City in and county seat of Grand County, Utah, United States
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Landscapes & nature
Western Leone
Spain
Spain theme park
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Landscapes & nature Sierra de Baza
Spain
Mountain range near to and named after Baza, Granada
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Landscapes & nature Sierra de los Filabres
Spain
Mountain
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Places whose own article says it was shot there
1 place says on its own Wikipedia page that this film was shot there. Not on the map: the quote is linked so you can check it.
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Landscapes & nature
Monument Valley
United States
Basin of the Colorado Plateau on the Arizona–Utah border in the western United States
“Many more recent movies, with other directors, were also filmed in Monument Valley, including Sergio Leone's Once Upon a Time in the West (1968), the first Spaghetti Western to be filmed (in 1967) outside Europe, and Gore Verbinski's The Lone Ranger (2013).” Wikipedia
Recorded only at country level
Also filmed in Arizona, Utah, but the exact places are not known, so they are not on the map.
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