Villa Ciscarejo Country house between orange groves in Gádor (Almería)

In the early 1950s, the city of Almería became the setting for the province's first films. The exterior shots of the Spanish film The Call of Africa ​​were filmed in the port of Almería, and several scenes of the French film An Eye for an Eye were filmed in the Plaza de la Vieja. These films evidently drew the attention of major directors to Almería's landscape, and so-called superproductions were shot in the 1960s. Anthony Mann's El Cid was the first of a series of major films, followed by a series of world-renowned productions such as Lawrence of Arabia, some of which was filmed in Parque Nicolás Salmerón, Cleopatra, starring Liz Taylor, and The Battle of the Lost, which filmed the entry of troops into Plaza Vieja, Michael Caine's Never Say Never Again, as well as the more recent James Bond films Indiana Jones and The Last Crusade, in which the art school was transformed into a sultan's palace.