If you are a huge fan of TV series, surely you know about GoT. What's more, you may even know that the upcoming fifth season is curently being shot in Spain.
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Film
crews on Friday began shooting part of the fifth season of popular US
fantasy television series "Game of Thrones" in the southern Spanish city
of Seville, delighting local authorities who expect a tourism boost.
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| Alcazar Palace in old Seville. Photo: AFP |
Onlookers held
up umbrellas to protect themselves against driving rain as they tried to
look over a pastel coloured synthetic canvas set up around the gardens
of the Real Alcazar palace. The barrier was set up to keep plot details
of the Home Box Office series secret.
The palace, a masterpiece
of Islamic architecture in old Seville packed with columned courtyards
and elaborately tiled halls, said on its website that it will undergo
"partial closures" until the end of October during the filming of the
series.
Producers have reportedly obtained special permission
to tint the waters of the pools of the palace's courtyard gardens dark
blue for one scene of the fifth season of the series, which started
filming in Northern Ireland earlier this year. They will use an
eco-friendly product that evaporates several days after being used in
the water, according to daily newspaper ABC.
Seville, with its picturesque alleys,
hidden plazas and flower-decked patios, already draws about two million
tourists a year and local officials are optimistic that the series will
bring even more visitors. The Real Alcazar
is one of Seville's top tourist attractions. It draws over 3,000
visitors a day. The oldest parts of the sprawling complex date back
to the 10th century.
"We will have to endure some
inconvenience, taking into account the possible generation of jobs and
the impact on tourism that this will have," Seville mayor Juan Ignacio
Zoido told reporters earlier this week.
The Croatian city of
Dubrovnik, where three seasons of the popular show were filmed starting
in 2011, reported a jump in visitor numbers after the episodes aired and
special "Game of Thrones" location tours sprung up.
Season
four of the series, a tale of battles and betrayal mixed with a generous
helping of sex and bloodshed, averaged 18 million weekly viewers in the
United States, making it one of the most watched series on television.
After filming wraps up in Seville, the crew will later this month move
on to Osuna, a small hilltop town surrounded by olive groves located
about 80 kilometres (50 miles) away which will reportedly serve as the
backdrop for a battle scene.
Osuna city hall says visitor
numbers to the town are already up by around 15 percent since producers
of the series announced at the start of July that it would film part of
the fifth season there.
Hotels in the town of around 18,000
residents are fully booked during the second half of October when
filming is expected to take place, while a tapas bar in the town has
introduced a special menu with dishes named after "Game of Thrones"
characters.
As Spain grapples with an unemployment rate of 24.5
percent, the second-highest in the European Union after Greece,
producers did not struggle to find extras seeking a few days work on the
set.
Producer Fresco Film services based in Malaga said it received over 86,000 applications to audition for extra roles.The company selected 4,000 people to come to auditions and will hire
550 people to work as extras per day over 17 days of filming, said the
company's executive producer Peter Welter.
Police in July
detained two men in Ibiza who ran a fake website that instructed people
interested in work as extras to call a premium telephone line operated
by the pair that put callers on hold for several minutes. Police suspect they earned as much as €100,000 ($127,000) in a week with the scam.
by AFP
Published: 11 October 2014
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Time to work! Find in the text the hidden synonyms for these words or expressions:
1. Increase (noun)
2. Observers
3. Supposedly
4. Ecological
5. Suffer
6. Treason
7. With no vacancies
8. Requests
9. Employ
10. Fraud
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KEY
1. Boost
2. Onlookers
3. Reportedly
4. Eco-friendly
5. Endure
6. Betrayal
7. Fully booked
8. Applications
9. Hire
10. Scam
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