Fort Bravo, Campground in Tabernas Desert, Spain
Fort Bravo is a campground located in the Tabernas Desert in southern Spain, offering lodging units with air conditioning and outdoor facilities including a pool and showers. The site sits within a dry, rocky valley surrounded by film sets left over from Western movie productions.
The land around Fort Bravo was first used as a filming location in the 1960s, when directors found that the Tabernas Desert looked convincingly like the American Southwest. Over time, the site shifted from a working film location to a place where visitors could come to see and stay among the old sets.
Fort Bravo sits on land that was once used as a backdrop for dozens of Western films, and some of those original sets are still standing today. Visitors can walk through streets built to look like the American frontier, complete with saloons and sheriff offices.
The campground is in a remote area and a car is the most practical way to get there. Days in the desert can be very hot and nights considerably cooler, so packing layers and sun protection makes the stay more comfortable.
Although the site now operates as a campground, it still hosts live Western shows performed among the original sets, so guests can watch staged gunfights in the same spots where film scenes were once shot. Some of the buildings on the property were never meant to be permanent but have outlasted the productions that built them.
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