What Albergue is this?

[keoghy]

Help identify this Albergue/Refugio

• keoghy
• Jan 13, 2016
• 3

Screenshot from "The Way" movie

Help identify this Albergue/Refugio

• keoghy
• Jan 13, 2016
• 9

Screenshot from "The Way" movie

So in anticipation of an upcoming Camino Frances I was re-watching "The way". There is an Albergue that Martin Sheen's character stays in with Joost and Sarah around the 50min mark.

It looks to be in the old monastery/church. There are bunk beds placed outside under a portico and there is a well just beyond the portico in the middle of a courtyard. I looks very much like a refugio.

I'd really like to stay here and would not like to miss it. I've included a couple of screenshots to help.

Of course it might not be on the Frances or any other route and it could very well be just a set they mocked up on a location for the film.

Any help would be gratefully appreciated.

 

[jsalt]

Hi, it’s the monastery at Irache.
See http://www.silver-screen-spain.com/index.php/film-index/item/664-the-way-2010

 

[SYates]

Yes, but it ii is really a pilgrims albergue or just something set up for the movie? I am really familiar with the camino and it really doesn't ring any bell, SY

 

[mspath]

Hi, it’s the monastery at Irache.
See http://www.silver-screen-spain.com/index.php/film-index/item/664-the-way-2010

During the past 10 years I have visited the interior of the Irache monastery which is open to visitors but not usually from November through mid January. See more in this web http://www.turismo.navarra.es/eng/organice-viaje/recurso.aspx?o=3150.
There was also casual ad hoc camping in the fields behind the monastery; the same fields also provide a splendid view of the early Romanesque church which is not visible from the main facade.

 

[LesBrass]

I had a wander around the monastery and cloisters in April and it dawned on me as I wandered that it was the Albergue from the film. I would love to stay in a place like this too.

The first time I walked I thought it had been the cloisters at Los Arcos (second photo).

 

[GreatDane]

This webpage said the cloisters were used only for the The Way film. http://www.silver-screen-spain.com/index.php/film-index/item/664-the-way-2010

 

[keoghy]

Thanks everybody for the helpful info

 

[Devon Mike]

Yes it was just used as a film set, not a genuine Albergue.

There are lots of anomalies in The Way. The bridge where Tom drops his pack in the river is not on the Camino. Also there is a scene of Tom sitting outside at Orisson eating a sandwich and drinking a glass of wine. That scene is cut in to the film after he had walked from Roncesvalles!!

 

[GreatDane]

...There are lots of anomalies in The Way...

Like they didn't think we'd all notice. I laughed out loud when I got to the top of Alto de Perdon and noted how they'd edited the view back towards Pamplona so it looks like you're in the middle of no where. (and the new movie "The Revenant"? The actual location of the bear maul scene looks absolutely nothing like in the movie.)

 

[Saint Mike II]

Yes it was just used as a film set, not a genuine Albergue.

There are lots of anomalies in The Way. The bridge where Tom drops his pack in the river is not on the Camino. Also there is a scene of Tom sitting outside at Orisson eating a sandwich and drinking a glass of wine. That scene is cut in to the film after he had walked through Pamplona!!

Thanks Mike - this "error" (Orisson west of Pamplona) was only discovered when the movie was finished and had its first full screening, by which time it was too late to make the correction. I first saw the movie in a cinema, unaware of the error, when I saw it with a number of "Camino Experts" they all made the appropriate comments. Cheers