Alicante is Hollywood, Spain ?

July 16, 2007 on 5:23 pm | In Costa Blanca Holidays, Benidorm Apartments | No Comments

If you go on holiday to the USA you can visit Universal Studios. Would it be possible soon to visit the “Ciudad de la Luz”?

Today is the last day of the so famous Alfaz del Pi filmfestival, a festival with many new and old movies to enjoy, even on a big screen at the beach. Every year the festival draws thousands of people to Alfaz del Pi and her “Albir” beach.

On the Albir beach, more film history is to be seen at the “boulevard de los Estrellas” or Boulevard of stars, where the famous stars of the Spanish domestic film industry have their own star in the marvel pavement of the boulevard. Now, this combined with moviescreen at the beach and the yearly handcraft market the atmosphere is really nice!!

In Alicante for a few years now, they have constructed the “Ciudad de la Luz” or the city of light, a very large complex functioning as film studios.

Antonio Banderas has had his shootings for “el camino de los Ingleses” in 2006 and now they have “Asterix and the Olympic Games”, a French-Spanish production with a budget of almost 57 million pounds, toped by the massive Roman Polanski production “Pompeii”, said to be the most expensive European production costing a little over 90 million pounds sterling.

Before the old master can do his magic with exploding volcanoes and streaming hot earth our friend from the Caribbean Johnny Depp will shoot his newest movie “Shantaram” in October this year.

So you see, Costa Blanca has it all!

That´s all Folks !!

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