Was the last crusade filmed at Petra?

Several scenes from the legendary blockbuster Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade were filmed in Petra. In the film's climactic final scenes, actors Harrison Ford and Sean Connery burst forth from the Siq and walk deep into the labyrinths of the Treasury to find the Holy Grail.



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Filming took place in the Tabernas Desert in Spain's Almería province, Cabo de Gata-Níjar Natural Park as well as at Bürresheim Castle in West Germany and Elstree Studios in Borehamwood, England. The film was also shot at North Weald Airfield and Stowe School, Stowe, Buckinghamshire.

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The city of Venice was used as a filming location, including the city's library. Petra in Jordan was used for the temple at the end of the movie. Opening shots of the desert were filmed in the U.S. at Utah's Arches National Park.

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Several scenes from the legendary blockbuster Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade were filmed in Petra. In the film's climactic final scenes, actors Harrison Ford and Sean Connery burst forth from the Siq and walk deep into the labyrinths of the Treasury to find the Holy Grail.

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The seventh and final site was the ancient city of Petra in Jordan, unknown to much of the world before 1989. That year, the city's carved rose-red sandstone facades were featured in the blockbuster film Indiana Jones and The Last Crusade. In the film, Petra stood in for where Indiana Jones finds the Holy Grail.

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In The Last Crusade, Indiana Jones is after the Holy Grail, and what better place to house it than in a real-life place called The Treasury? That's the popular tourist attraction, the Al Khazneh, in Petra, Jordan, a giant, ornately carved sandstone temple facade, which dates back to the first century AD.

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Ford was 46 years old during the filming of the next film, Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989). Incidentally, James Bond famed actor Sean Connery played Ford's father in this film. Ford again made a cameo in Mystery of the Blues, Season 2, Episode 5 of The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles (1993).

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The Last Crusade, the third movie in the Indiana Jones series, was filmed in the ancient city of Petra which can be reached by horse or camel via the Siq, a narrow opening in the cliffs. Explore Al Khazneh temple, known in the film as the Canyon of the Crescent Moon where the Holy Grail was hidden.

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It remained unknown to the western world until 1812, when Swiss traveller Johann Ludwig Burckhardt rediscovered it. It has been a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 1985.

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