<P> Most of the film was shot in Cinecittà studios , Rome . The brick arch where Bronson 's character flashbacks to his youth and the original lynching incident was built near a small airport fifteen miles north of Monument Valley , in Utah and two miles from U.S. Route 163 ( which links Gouldings Lodge and Mexican Hat ) . The opening sequence with the three gunmen meeting the train was one of the sequences filmed in Spain . Shooting for scenes at Cattle Corner Station , as the location was called in the story , was scheduled for four days and was filmed at the ' ghost ' train station in the municipality of La Calahorra , county of Gaudix , near Guadix , in the Province of Granada , Spain , as were the scenes of Flagstone , and shooting for the scenes in the middle of the railway were filmed along the Guadix - Hernan Valle railway line . </P>
<P> Most of the film was shot in Cinecittà studios , Rome . The brick arch where Bronson 's character flashbacks to his youth and the original lynching incident was built near a small airport fifteen miles north of Monument Valley , in Utah and two miles from U.S. Route 163 ( which links Gouldings Lodge and Mexican Hat ) . The opening sequence with the three gunmen meeting the train was one of the sequences filmed in Spain . Shooting for scenes at Cattle Corner Station , as the location was called in the story , was scheduled for four days and was filmed at the ' ghost ' train station in the municipality of La Calahorra , county of Gaudix , near Guadix , in the Province of Granada , Spain , as were the scenes of Flagstone , and shooting for the scenes in the middle of the railway were filmed along the Guadix - Hernan Valle railway line . </P>
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Cinecittà studios , Rome a small airport fifteen miles north of Monument Valley , in Utah La Calahorra , county of Gaudix , near Guadix , in the Province of Granada , Spain
Cinecittà studios , Rome a small airport fifteen miles north of Monument Valley , in Utah La Calahorra , county of Gaudix , near Guadix , in the Province of Granada , Spain