Whitewashed cave house fronts and white chimneys on a tan clay hillside, where the NBC series Emerald City shot Dorothy's stop on the road to Oz.
What Barrio de Cuevas looks like
The arcs around the town of Guadix, and its cave houses cover the slopes in whitewashed fronts. Each front differs from the next, and the houses sit along paths and up the hillside without a fixed plan. White chimneys stand up from the earth roofs, so a wide shot holds a whole hillside of them.
Chapels sit inside the caves too, and the is one of them. The is a cave-house museum listed among the town's visits.
The stands on the high ground above the town. From the barrio lookouts it sits above the white roofs of the cave houses, with chimneys in the foreground.
The roads are asphalt, and TV aerials stand among the chimneys. A blue and yellow tourist road train runs along some streets. It has to be kept out of frame. Tile ledges run along the fronts, and the tan hillside rises behind the rows.
Shot in Barrio de Cuevas
In the NBC series Emerald City, Dorothy stops at the cave houses of Guadix on her way to Oz. The sequence appears from the second episode.
Emerald City, 2017
The cave houses of Guadix
Played the Land of Oz
Dorothy stops at the cave houses on her journey to Oz. Tarsem Singh directed the series, which shows the stop from its second episode.
Sacromonte's cave houses are dug into a white hillface above the Darro, with wooden doors cut into the rock. Guadix's whitewashed cave houses sit on a tan hillside in the same way, so a camera gets a slope of cave houses from either town. A tighter frame on a doorway or a chimney holds the match better, since wide shots pick up the TV aerials and the asphalt. Try searching whitewashed cave houses hillside now.
Matmata in Tunisia
Matmata's troglodyte cave dwellings are dug down into pits with rooms cut around the edge, and the Hotel Sidi Idriss was used as a filming location in 1976 for the Lars home in Star Wars. A barrio doorway shot can hold that resemblance where a wide view will not. A wide shot of the pit layout or the open desert gives Matmata away at once, so keep the frame close to a doorway or a whitewashed wall. Try searching troglodyte cave dwellings now.
