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Another in a series of articles on places you might like to visit in the local area. Here, we feature the less touristic film set, Texas Hollywood.
About 25km north of Almeria you'll find Mini-Hollywood, now renamed Oasys for some reason. If you're looking for a tourist experience, this is it. If, however, you're looking for the real set where, amongst others, the Spaghetti Westerns were filmed, go a few km further on and turn down a dirt road. After another km or 2 you'll come to Texas Hollywood.
Texas Hollywood has a slightly neglected air, with the Mexican and American towns constructed next to each other faded, peeling and generally looking the worse for wear ­ which is actually somehow gratifying. You can enter the facades of homes, banks, shops and barbers’, but of course they're only façades. The saloon, however, is real and even has a restaurant out the back.