The town of’ ‘Aqaba’ was built at a beach called Playa del Algarrobico near Carboneras, close to Almeria in southern Spain. The attack on the train filmed at Genovese Beach, San Jose on Cabo de Gata (Cape of the Cat) nearby.
For many of the ‘Middle Eastern’ settings, Lean used the heavily Moorish city of Seville, particularly the vast complex of buildings in the Parque de Maria Luisa, Avenida de Isabel la Catolica, built for the disastrous 1929 Spanish-American exhibition.
In Seville you can find the ‘Cairo’ officers' club, where Lawrence’s companion is refused a drink after the desert crossing, which is the, currently empty and rather dilapidated, Palaçio Español, a semi-circular arcaded building in the Plaza de España. |
