{"id":52088,"date":"2023-06-18T23:34:52","date_gmt":"2023-06-18T21:34:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/?p=52088"},"modified":"2025-06-18T00:06:25","modified_gmt":"2025-06-17T22:06:25","slug":"an-abandoned-spanish-airfield-that-was-used-as-the-base-for-an-indiana-jones-movie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2023\/06\/18\/an-abandoned-spanish-airfield-that-was-used-as-the-base-for-an-indiana-jones-movie\/","title":{"rendered":"An abandoned Spanish airfield that was used as the base for an Indiana Jones movie"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In Spain there are abandoned sites that have a curious relationship with the film industry, as we saw a few days ago.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><rel><a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2023\/06\/14\/the-spanish-tunnel-now-in-ruins-made-famous-by-an-indiana-jones-movie\/\">The Spanish tunnel, now in ruins, made famous by an Indiana Jones movie<\/a><\/rel><br \/>\n<rel><a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2022\/08\/20\/a-tour-of-the-calamocha-airfield-a-former-ju-87-stukas-base-in-spain\/\">A tour of the Calamocha airfield, a former Ju-87 Stukas base in Spain<\/a><\/rel><\/p>\n<p>On Wednesday we saw <a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2023\/06\/14\/the-spanish-tunnel-now-in-ruins-made-famous-by-an-indiana-jones-movie\/\">a tunnel used in a famous Indiana Jones movie<\/a>, thanks to an interesting video posted by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@AventurasEntresierras\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Aventuras Entresierras<\/a>, the best Spanish Youtube channel on urban exploration. Today, that same channel has published a new video showing us <strong>the Cortijo Grane aerodrome<\/strong>, in Turre (Almer\u00eda).<\/p>\n<p>As reported by Javier Ortega Figueiral in the blog <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.lavanguardia.com\/las-gafas-del-viajero\/2020\/07\/23\/indiana-jones-y-cortijo-grande-13482\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Las Gafas del Viajero<\/a> in July 2020, <strong>this airfield was built by two Americans, the brothers Ric and Paul Polansky<\/strong>, who came to Spain to avoid being sent to the Vietnam War. In the 1970s they made this airfield and a golf course. <strong>Steven Spielberg used the airfield in his films \"Empire of the Sun\" (1987) and \"Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade\" (1989)<\/strong>, as the base of operations for the tunnel scene into which referred to the previous video of Aventuras Entresierras.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Today the airfield is abandoned and in ruins.<\/strong> You can see its exterior and interior, including the control tower, in the new video from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/ @AventurasEntresierras\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Aventuras Entresierras<\/a>. Before that, the video begins with a visit to some abandoned houses with spectacular views (the video is in Spanish, you can activate the automatic subtitles in English in the bottom bar of the player):<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Vivac en Aer\u00f3dromo FANTASMA de Indiana Jones. Exploramos casas abandonadas.\" width=\"665\" height=\"374\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/lIvdGdfesrc?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Below you can see a few screenshots of the video as a preview. <strong>Here we see the exterior of the aerodrome, with its small control tower.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/52984529648_4fd2f12c7e_b.jpg\" style=\"width:100%; height:auto; margin:10px 0 10px 0; border:0px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>An aerial view of the aerodrome<\/strong>, recorded from a drone.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/52983468872_008b92763e_b.jpg\" style=\"width:100%; height:auto; margin:10px 0 10px 0; border:0px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>The old hangars of the aerodrome <\/strong>, large enough to accommodate a small plane in each one.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/52984216259_1f892af72d_b.jpg\" style=\"width:100%; height:auto; margin:10px 0 10px 0; border:0px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>The old airfield runway<\/strong>, increasingly invaded by vegetation.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/52984529638_376d0f2624_b.jpg\" style=\"width:100%; height:auto; margin:10px 0 10px 0; border:0px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Spain there are abandoned sites that have a curious relationship with the film industry, as we saw a few days ago.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[19536,16877],"tags":[2499,16673,19488,502,11462,2493,19487],"class_list":["post-52088","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-we-said-yesterday","category-ruins","tag-almeria","tag-andalusia","tag-cortijo-grande-aerodrome","tag-indiana-jones","tag-spain","tag-steven-spielberg","tag-turre"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-08-12 07:07:19","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52088","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52088"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52088\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52088"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52088"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52088"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}