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September 17-24, 2015Costa del Sol News

Cardona: A Hollywoodhotel: From 007 to 700Writer Bob Yareham presents his fascinating newbook: 'A Set Jetters Guide to Spain: 101 Locations'

A MERE 50 years after OrsonWelles walked through the pala-tial splendour of Cardona castleto film his Shakespearian clas-sic 'Chimes at Midnight', theworld of the cinema returns to

Cardona for an event in whichthree experts on Spanish cin-ema history and the popularnew kind of tourism, 'set-jet-ting', or movie tourism if youprefer, will present the fruits oftheir research in the same

Press release place, which is now the ParadorNacional de Cardona, one ofmany historical buildingswhich operate as state-run ho-tels in Spain.

Many Paradors have beenused for films, such as the oneat Sigüenza, where Ridley Scottshot '1492', or Oropesa in theprovince of Toledo, whereFrank Sinatra stirred up guer-illa trouble during 'Pride andPassion', Hondarribia, whereDustin Hoffman and SteveMcQueen were marched intoexile in 'Papillon', or Chinchón,where John Wayne set up hisbig top in 'Circus World'; butCardona was the first, whereWelles turned the 9th centurycastle into Windsor, and whereHenry IV and his son, the fu-ture Henry V argued aboutkingship.

Valencia-based teacher andwriter Bob Yareham was theinitiator of this project, havingalready presented his new bookat the Parador at Oropesa in thesummer of 2015.

He will present his latestbook: 'A Set Jetters Guide toSpain: 101 Locations', and willreview the history of some ofthe 700 English language films

shot in Spain and discuss howSpain can harness and benefitfrom cinema tourism.

Jaime Palaufrom Lleida is anexpert on the lo-cations of JamesBond films, andhas travelled allover the world re-cording the placeswhere 007 did whathe does so well, asurprisingly largenumber of the lo-cations being inSpain.

Jaume is nowdeveloping anumber of movietourism ini-tiatives.

Marga Araya isfrom Barcelonaand has dedicated

many years to researchingthe visits of Sir LaurenceOlivier to Spain, and hasjust published a bookabout the great actorand his wife, the ac-tress Vivien Leigh.The event will take

place in the Parador on Satur-day 17th October 2015 at 7 pm, andadmission is of course free. A fol-lowing presentation will takeplace in Javea, on 14th November.

The book is available at allgood book shops and on Ama-zon.es

Jaume Palau at La Caleta, Cadiz, scenefrom one of the Bond movies

Bob Yareham - captivated by the cinema

Marga Araya