After taking us four years ago to the “most remote island in the Canary archipelago” in the series IronPepe and Jorge Coira returned home to place their new bet, Rapawhich this September closes with its third season filmed again in Galicia, but also in Segovia.
The Galician settings of ‘Rapa’
The creators of the series say that the germ of Rapa is in Vixía Herbeira, the top of the Capelada Mountains northeast of A Coruñathe cliffs with the highest elevation above sea level in continental Europe at more than 600 metres high.
And this setting is one of the most remembered of the series in its first season, along with its nearby towns, starting with Cedeirawhere the mayor is murdered, which brings Maite (Mónica López) and Tomás (Javier Cámara) together.
We are therefore at the heart of Ferrolterrathe humid, untamed and foggy landscape that characterizes Rapa from its first chapter, “an area that is especially beautiful but not very well known in Galicia or the coast,” according to its creators.
Dear and Ortigueirathe neighbors of Cedeira around Capelada They also appeared in the first chapters of the series that premiered on May 19, 2022 trying to exploit the success of Iron betting on the same typical aesthetics of thriller but much, much further north.
Ferrolof course, is another of the emblems of Rapaalso in this third season. If in the second the criminal investigation started in the Military Arsenal, for this new season the Coria take us to the shipyard, another very cinematic space as fans of The Wire.
And between Ferrol and the cliffs of the north, Valdoviñoanother privileged enclave on the Coruña coast where Maite and Tomás share a house at the end of the second season from where you can see Punta Frouxeira, which has a unique avant-garde lighthouse built in 1992.
Likewise, this third season also explores other maritime settings in Ferrolterra such as the Doñinos and San Jorge beaches where there is also usually no shortage of surfers as on many other beaches on the Galician coast.
The south of Ferrol is also represented in this third season of Rapain particular the town of Pontedeumewhich owes its name to the Eume river that marks its physiognomy.
The Coria brothers point out that, in fact, they filmed during the town’s festivities that take place at the beginning of September with the presence of the legendary Panorama orchestra, very popular throughout northern Spain.
And further south, we enter the Betanzos regionwhere we can visit other towns such as Paderne or Teixeiro, as well as Bergondo, very close to A Coruña or Abegondo, the most “southern” town in Galicia that has seen the filming set of Rapa.
And finally, without leaving Galicia yet, the series moves a little further west, outside the province of A Coruña, to reach Lugo where it was filmed in the town of XoveThe series creators found a mansion in Mariña Lucense that was ideal for representing that other wealthy Galicia of the Támago family, the pharmaceutical family.
‘Rapa’ in Segovia
But perhaps the most striking thing about the third season of Rapa For location hunters, the series leaves Galicia in several scenes, entering a territory that has little to do with it.
“We wanted a place that was completely different from the universe of the series,” Pepe Coira told Repsol Guideso “we wanted to make it palpable that there is a past in Tomás that has nothing to do with the Tomás we have known.”
And they found all this both in the city and in the province of Segovia. It was already a year ago when the set of Rapa He arrived in the provincial capital to shoot in the Plaza de Conde Cheste, the Plaza de Colmenares, the Plaza de Guevara, inside the Casa de las Cadenas, as well as in various spaces around the Main Squaresuch as the Alcázar Confectionery, the La Concepción Restaurant, or the façade of the Juan Bravo Theatre.
Finally, it should be noted that those responsible for Rapa They also include in their thanks, in addition to the Segovia Film Office of Tourism, the City Council of Pelayos del Arroyoa small town of just over 50 inhabitants half an hour northeast of the capital, whose main attraction is the church of San Vicente Mártir, an example of rural Segovian Romanesque: undoubtedly, a very different setting from the northern Ferrolterra.
