Why do spaghetti Western fans pilgrimage to Spain? The curious history, explained.

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At least 180 foreign films dating to 1916 have been filmed in Spain. Since then, movie sets like the Sad Hill Cemetery have become quasi-religious sites for devoted fans all over the world.

“This news blew my mind,” he told NBC News. “Not only did a set that I thought had been lost 50 years ago still exist, but on top of everything else a group of people wanted to resurrect it.”

On camera, fans and critics can see how “The Good, the Bad and the Ugly” looks and feels like Spain, Italy or Mexico. Viewers will note Eastwood’s poncho and vest, the sound of a Spanish guitar and a mariachi trumpet playing before the climactic duel. Even the circular design of the cemetery resembles a bullfighting arena in Spain or a Roman coliseum.

Director Guillermo de Oliveira at Betterville Concentration Camp, one of the locations for "Sad Hill Unearthed."Fernández told NBC News that language can sometimes reveal layers of history that cannot be easily recovered in an archaeological dig.

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