In the late 1960s, Italian filmmaker Sergio Leone arrived in the province of Almería to shoot the film Once Upon a Time in the West. He was blown away by the landscape, but the desert alone wasn’t enough: his production team built a set designed by Carlo Simi that included several buildings and a railroad. It was christened Rancho Leone and has since hosted many other shoots for the legendary Spaghetti Westerns, as well as TV series, music videos, and advertising campaigns. Pedro Almodóvar also stopped by in 2023 to shoot Strange Way of Life with Ethan Hawke and Pedro Pascal. Today, this set, which has fallen into disrepair due to lack of maintenance, is on the market for €1.6 million ($1.84 million). “We’re getting older, and we’re tired. It had a really great run, but we just can’t handle all this anymore,” says Genara Rubio, the manager and owner of the site, at the entrance to the facilities.

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Nacho Valle is a restless figure, a distinctive entrepreneur. When he was young he ran a hangout with a friend in the old El Carmen neighborhood that became a benchmark of Valencia’s alternative music and rock and roll scene, Túrmix. After his father’s death he took over the Valle Ortí art gallery. He learned the trade, toured the world visiting fairs, introduced contemporary art into his program and managed to get into the ARCO selection in Madrid. Then the 2012 economic crisis hit, coinciding with his own personal crisis and a certain weariness with a city whose collectors are few in number and mostly prefer to buy abroad. So he left. He needed a change.

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