Sweetwater now reaches the Desert of Tabernas, Almería Spain, the only desert in Europe. It is the location of Sergio Leone films, with Clint Eastwood spaghetti westerns. Presently there are three sites that are operated independently, that are open for visitors, the Oasys Theme Park, Fort Bravo and Western Leone. All of them offer a variety of the American Wild West attractions. some of them are still being used as film locations.

The Oasys Theme Park is a Western set that represented the town of El Paso (Texas) in  "For A Few Dollars More" and it also appeared in "The Good the Bad and the Ugly". Oasys is near the town of Tabernas in the province of Almería, Andalusia. Originally known as Yucca City, the set was designed by Carlo Simi and built for Sergio Leone's For a Few Dollars More in 1965.It was also used as a set for other films, such as The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1966).

Fort Bravo is a Western town which was expressly built for the shooting "The Good, The Bad and The Ugly" as additional decorations to the already existing Oasys Theme Park settings. Today one will find Fort Bravo almost in its original condition. It is a Must See for all Western buffs. It has a saloon, jail, shops, bank and stables. It also boasts a Mexican area with a square, church, peasant homes and homesteads.

Western Leone is restored, where the town of "Sweetwater" as it appeared in "Once Upon A Time in the West" in 1968. This little Western town, named after Leone, is still being used for film shoots.

Leone was the inventor of the so-called “spaghetti western.” Westerns had been made intermittently in Italy since 1913, when Italy had been producing badly dubbed westerns for a few years before Leone was struck by inspiration. The nature of that inspiration eventually produced A Fistful of Dollars. It forever altered the landscape of western film until, making it what would become a popular genre. In his mind, Leone saw a film that would restore to this once-mighty form the 34-year-old filmmaker adored, and especially the westerns of John Ford,  its grit, epic grandeur and irresistible danger. Leone felt that the American western had lost its way of late, and that the film he’d make might point the way back. Sweetwater echoes that very same sentiment. She went on to write these style of revisionist western scripts, these lesbian westerns that have made her popular with the masses. Sweetwater is banking, like Leone, that Hollywood glamour goes a long way in international sales. Sweetwater, grateful to be an American writer with American characters is well-schooled on Leone’s stranger that would only be made truly magnificent by being American.

Clint Eastwood was then 33-years-old, and his career was on hold. Eastwood was a contract-player during the 1950s. He had enjoyed some success on Rawhide, one of a slew of TV westerns that dominated American prime-time TV in the early sixties. But now, in concert with the decline of the western on the big screen, TV westerns were on the wane and Eastwood had nothing on the horizon. Besides, his CBS contract forbade him from making any movies in America while on the series. For a bargain-basement $12,000, Eastwood agreed to fly to Europe, including the Desert of Tabernas, Almeria Spain, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tabernas_Desert for six weeks and make the movie. Before leaving, he scooped up some of his Rawhide wardrobe, and went out and bought a new hat and black jeans. He also claimed to have provided the beat-up poncho that would complete the Man With No Name’s iconic wardrobe. You might see that same replica poncho in a scene in Sweetwater's Jett Durango trilogy, inspired by Eastwood's Dollar Trilogy http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dollars_Trilogy

Dollar Trilogy
A Fistful of Dollars
For a Few Dollars More
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly

Sage Sweetwater, writer of the Jett Durango trilogy
Jett Durango
Jett Durango: The Resurrection
Jett Durango: My Heroes Have Always Been Outlaws