La bola negra: Granada, Castil de Carrias and Comillas

The film opens in Granada in 1932, where Carlos, a young man from a wealthy family, is refused membership of an exclusive club by a blackball vote. Granada was a main shooting base: the crew filmed at the Iglesia de Santa Ana, the Carmen de los Mártires and the Albaicín. The church stands on the Darro bank near Plaza Nueva, at the foot of the Alhambra.

Location precision: The film does not tie its Granada scenes to one address; the pin marks the Iglesia de Santa Ana, one of the listed filming sites.

Visitor guidance: The Iglesia de Santa Ana sits at the start of the Carrera del Darro, next to Plaza Nueva.

After the club is stormed, Carlos walks up a snowy mountain, where he meets a boy with a young woman, a group of skiers and the personified Snow. Sierra Nevada was one of the filming locations. The range holds Mulhacén, the highest point of continental Spain, and above Granada it hosts one of Europe's most southerly ski resorts.

Location precision: The film shows an unnamed snowy mountain; the pin marks the Sierra Nevada, listed among the filming locations.

Visitor guidance: The ski resort above Granada is the usual way into the range.

In 1937, during the Spanish Civil War, the trumpeter Sebastián survives an air attack on a village community; his mother is killed. Filming began in August 2025 in the abandoned village of Castil de Carrias, halfway between Belorado and Briviesca. It is a depopulated settlement in the municipality of Belorado, in the province of Burgos.

Location precision: The film's village is not named; the pin marks Castil de Carrias, the abandoned village where shooting began.

Nené Romero, a popular cupletista played by Penélope Cruz, entertains the troops and introduces Sebastián to queer role models. For her theatre the crew found a venue in Sigüenza that had been closed for fifty years; it was restored for the shoot. Sigüenza is a city in the province of Guadalajara, in Castile-La Mancha.

Location precision: The pin marks the town of Sigüenza; the source does not name the theatre's address.

As a last request, the prisoner Rafael asks Sebastián to recover Lorca's manuscript of La bola negra from an apartment at Alcalá 96. In 1939 Sebastián survives the war and retrieves it, dropping a few pages on the floor. Madrid was among the shooting locations.

Location precision: The pin is the street address given in the plot summary; the source does not say the scenes were shot at that building.

In 2017 the historian Alberto López Azcuna is in Athens, researching queer dissidence in the music of Rosa Eskenazi, when his estranged grandfather dies and leaves him an inheritance. Athens was one of the shooting locations, together with Madrid.

Location precision: The source names the city only; the pin marks the centre of Athens.

To claim his inheritance Alberto must meet a lawyer in Cantabria, and his share turns out to be the remaining manuscript of La bola negra. Shooting took place in Comillas, a small Cantabrian town where Gaudí and other renowned Catalan artists designed palaces and monuments.

Location precision: The film names only Cantabria; the pin marks Comillas, listed among the filming locations.

Visitor guidance: Walk the town to see the palaces and monuments designed by Catalan architects.