Cortijo del Fraile, Almeria Province
The Cortijo del Fraile became the setting for events that were to be picked up by Federico Garçia Lorca in his chilling play ‘Blood Wedding’.
The tenant farmer who lived here in 1928 angered his elder, married daughter by offering a larger dowry for his second, plainer child. A conspiracy was promptly hatched: the brother-in-law would offer marriage and split the dowry with the elder sister and her husband. But on the wedding day, the bride ran away with her cousin, planning to return after the consummation and claim the dowry. As the pair set out at night, they met with the sister and her husband. The cousin was shot twice in the head, the bride left half-strangled.
More recently, in 1966, film director Sergio Leone used the Cortijo del Fraile for a scene in his classic western, ‘The Good, The Bad & The Ugly’. It also featured in ‘For a Few Dollars More’
The tenant farmer who lived here in 1928 angered his elder, married daughter by offering a larger dowry for his second, plainer child. A conspiracy was promptly hatched: the brother-in-law would offer marriage and split the dowry with the elder sister and her husband. But on the wedding day, the bride ran away with her cousin, planning to return after the consummation and claim the dowry. As the pair set out at night, they met with the sister and her husband. The cousin was shot twice in the head, the bride left half-strangled.
More recently, in 1966, film director Sergio Leone used the Cortijo del Fraile for a scene in his classic western, ‘The Good, The Bad & The Ugly’. It also featured in ‘For a Few Dollars More’
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