Albaricoques
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Los Albaricoques is a working village that doubled as Agua Caliente for Sergio Leone's Dollars Trilogy in the 1960s, with a young Clint Eastwood among the cast who worked its streets. Locals appeared as extras, and the village later renamed streets after the actors and marked the film locations with plaques.
The village's name honors an early settler nicknamed 'el albaricoque' rather than the apricot fruit itself. Its economy ran on esparto grass, small-plot farming and herding until the 1960s, when much of the workforce shifted to the gold mine at nearby Rodalquilar. The mine closed for good in 1967, and many residents left the village afterward. That same decade brought the film crews: more than twenty spaghetti westerns were shot here, including Day of Anger alongside the Dollars trilogy entries. Today the village counts barely 250 residents.
What you see
Low whitewashed houses line straight dirt-edged streets, the classic look of Almería's White Towns.
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