Western Leone spaghetti westerns. In 1970, a fortress was built a short distance from Western Leone. This structure was used as a set for "El Condor" and later films. The fortress fell into disrepair by 1986. Western Leone Western Leone is a Western-style theme park in the province of Almeria, Andalusia (Spain). Located at the 378.9 km mark on the A-92 motorway, it is the smallest of three such theme parks in the Tabernas Desert; the other two are Mini Hollywood and Texas Hollywood. Western Leone was originally built to film Sergio Leone's "Once Upon a Time in the West" (1968); the
SS Almeria Lykes (1940) SS Almeria Lykes (1940) Almeria Lykes was a Type C3 cargo ship that was built in 1940 by Federal Shipbuilding and Drydock Company, Kearny, New Jersey for the Lykes Brother Steamship Co. She was transferred to the Ministry of War Transport (MoWT) and renamed Empire Condor. In 1942, she was transferred to the United States Maritime Commission (USMC) and renamed "Almeria Lykes". She was torpedoed and sunk by Axis motor torpedo boats on 13 August 1942. The ship was built in 1940 by Federal Shipbuilding and Drydock Company, Kearney, New Jersey. The ship was long, with a beam of a