A film whose sets were built to be taken down · Spain · 2006
Chalk the door
8 places, 8 chalk doors. Draw one to see what the film made there and what is left.
0 of 8 doors drawn · 0 open to visit
Pick a door, then draw it.
A bare slate door.
Draw Belchite old town to open it.
Belchite, Zaragoza
Daytime historical visits and a Friday and Saturday night legend visit to the ruined old town, bought online. The page lists no price. Pictured: the ruined church of San Agustín, 2017.
See visitsLos Ángeles de San Rafael, El Espinar
A 150-room mountain hotel in the Ángeles de San Rafael complex in El Espinar, with two restaurants and an indoor pool. Its page gives no distance to the meadow. Pictured: San Rafael, 2025.
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The dry summer
A record dry spell meant no real fire was allowed. The climax’s explosions used dirt, cork and lights on dimmers.
Switch each one from what you see to how it was made.
Me gusta el turismo says the crew built the mill as a full building with four walls, and that the mill and labyrinth were taken down after filming.
American Cinematographer says the crew wanted open ground ringed by forest. A site in Navarre was dropped when its owner asked for about half the budget, so they chose a place near Segovia, an hour from Madrid.
Go and look
Belchite’s ruins and the church of San Agustín are open by guided visit. San Rafael and El Espinar are ordinary mountain towns. The meadow, the pine woods and the sound stages are named here but not pinned: the sources do not give an exact spot for them.
The meadow is open ground and the woods are public, but no source gives a point on a map for either. The studios are private, and the sources disagree on which town they are in.
5 places you can pin in Spain, plus the meadow, the woods and the stages.
Pins mark public places; private homes are named but not pinned.
Area reference · Public access · Not an exact scene or camera position; not a visitor route. A mountain village on the AP-6 with a train halt and a bus station. Local cafés display photographs from the shoot.
Area reference · Public access · Not an exact scene or camera position; not a visitor route. A town on the road up to the Guadarrama passes. San Rafael, the village nearest the shoot, is part of it.
Segovia and the Guadarrama · San Rafael, El Espinar municipality, Segovia
Spanish Wikipedia says San Rafael is part of El Espinar municipality, at about 1,230 metres, with 2,559 residents in 2025.
A mountain village on the AP-6 with a train halt and a bus station. Local cafés display photographs from the shoot.
Segovia and the Guadarrama · El Espinar, Segovia
Filmaps lists El Espinar, in the Sierra de Guadarrama north-west of Madrid, as the film’s location. It gives no scene notes.
A town on the road up to the Guadarrama passes. San Rafael, the village nearest the shoot, is part of it.
Stay
A mountain hotel in the complex above San Rafael.
Los Ángeles de San Rafael, El Espinar
A 150-room mountain hotel in the Ángeles de San Rafael complex in El Espinar, with two restaurants and an indoor pool. Its page gives no distance to the meadow. Pictured: San Rafael, 2025.
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Belchite’s guided visits, and live results for tours in Aragon and Segovia.
Belchite, Zaragoza
Daytime historical visits and a Friday and Saturday night legend visit to the ruined old town, bought online. The page lists no price. Pictured: the ruined church of San Agustín, 2017.
See visitsBelchite, Zaragoza
Live marketplace results for tours that include the old town of Belchite. Check each itinerary for what it covers.
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Compare toursSegovia
Live marketplace results for day trips to Segovia, a short drive from the Guadarrama pines. None is a film tour unless its page says so.
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Dates, prices, rooms and stock change: confirm with the provider before you travel or buy. A stay or tour is described as a filming location only where the card says so.
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8 of 8 places · 11 of 11 stories
Prado de Juan Llanos meadow, San Rafael, El Espinar, Segovia; exact footprint not mapped
The house, barracks and mill are built on an open meadow, and taken down again before the premiere.
A drought leaves the ground dry, so painted green sawdust stands in for moss and the ground is sprayed green.
A Navarre site is dropped when its owner asks for about half the budget; the crew chooses ground near Segovia.
Scots pine woods near San Rafael, Segovia; exact stands not mapped
The Maquis scenes are shot in the Scots pine woods of the Guadarrama.
A record dry spell bans real fire, so the climax’s explosions are made with dirt, cork and dimmed lights.
San Rafael, El Espinar municipality, Segovia
Guillermo del Toro opens San Rafael’s patron-saint festivities in the year of the shoot.
El Espinar, Segovia
Pueblo Viejo de Belchite, Belchite, Zaragoza
The ruined town of the opening scene is filmed in the old town of Belchite.
The old town, destroyed in the 1937 battle, is kept unrestored as a memorial.
Iglesia del Convento de San Agustín, Plaza del Convento, Belchite old town
The roofless church of San Agustín supplies the opening and closing images.
Roman bridge, Talamanca de Jarama, Madrid
A travel guide lists the village for rural and historical exteriors of the 1944 scenes.
A studio in the Madrid area; the town is disputed and not mapped
The well and the Pale Man’s corridor and dining room are built on a Madrid sound stage.
Every place in Pan’s Labyrinth leads somewhere else.
