Filming locations
Where was The Devil's Backbone (2001) filmed?
2 locations on the HorrorMeet Atlas.
- El Cubillo de Uceda, Guadalajara
Del Toro built the Santa Lucia orphanage and its courtyard with the bomb in it on open country near this Guadalajara village. The village is a small farming settlement north of Madrid and the set has since been removed.
- Talamanca de Jarama, Madrid
Further exteriors for the orphanage story were shot around this old walled town on the Jarama river. Talamanca has a medieval bridge and Romanesque church and is open to walk around.
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