Pedro Almodóvar and his team celebrate the end of filming ‘Amarga Navidad’ with a dinner at Palacio Ico (Lanzarote)
The filmmaker also used the hotel as a working support for the sessions filmed in Teguise
The production company El Deseo, owned by Pedro and Agustín Almodóvar, chose Palacio Ico (Villa de Teguise, Lanzarote) to celebrate the completion of filming their latest movie, ‘Amarga Navidad’, which was shot between the island and Madrid, and will premiere next year in 2026.
The filming team enjoyed a dinner at the Palacio Ico restaurant, in addition to having used the hotel as support for the shooting of scenes set in Teguise.
In the photo, among others, are Pedro Almodóvar (2 Oscars + 3 nominations, 11 Goya + 21 nominations), Alberto Iglesias, composer (4 Oscar nominations, 12 Goya), Teresa Font, renowned editor in Spanish cinema (2 Goya + 9 nominations), Bárbara Lennie (1 Goya + 5 nominations), Milena Smit (1 Goya), and part of the Palacio Ico team (Iván Monreal, Sonsoles López, and Zeneida Cerreño).
About the gastronomic hotel Palacio Ico
Built around 1690, and included by the great artist César Manrique in his book “Lanzarote, unpublished architecture”, it is a bright example of Canarian noble architecture. Inside, the large wooden coffered ceilings of approximately 5 metres high, the original floors, both in mulberry wood and 18th-century tea, the stone walls over half a metre thick, and as a major highlight, the typically Canarian interior courtyard, to which the rooms and restaurant overlook, are dreamily suggestive.
A gastronomic hotel related to art since its beginnings until today, with its current owners, Sonsoles López and Eduardo Riestra.
In the restaurant and rooms, paintings by the world-renowned Heidi Bucher, who lived and created here, by artist Ildefonso Aguilar, and images of César Manrique taken by Swiss photographer Linus G. Jauslin in the 70s are displayed.
A large part of the items used at Palacio Ico come from artists and craftsmen of Lanzarote (ceramics, tableware, sculptures by Jesús Bonilla, paintings, photographs, lamps…).
There are only nine rooms, (five suites and four doubles), each unique, with some reaching up to 70 square metres, designed rationally and minimally with natural elements. Spacious bathrooms in microcement and volcanic pieces aimed at providing a sense of freshness, tranquillity, and a feeling of serene melancholy inspired by Wabi Sabi (a Japanese aesthetic concept based on “the beauty of imperfection”). Breakfast, whether in the dining room, central patio, or room, is served at the table.
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