Rioja, escenario de spaghetti western Curiosity · Rioja, Comarca Metropolitana de Almería, Almería Image of Rioja, not of the place itself. Since the 1960s, the area around Rioja has been used as a filming location for spaghetti westerns, making the most of its semi-desert landscape in the Andarax valley. Photo: Ismael Olea (CC BY-SA 2.0) What to see and do in Rioja