You Don’t Need To Go to Tatooine To Visit the Star Wars Slave Quarters

By Brian Ashcraft Published September 13, 2012 |

You do need to go to Tunisia, which doubled as Tatooine spaceport Mos Espa. It was what Anakin Skywalker called home and the locale for the podrace in Star Wars: Episode I. Real people now live on the abandoned set, but not all of Mos Espa was created by Hollywood.

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Ksar Hadada in Tunisia served as the slave quarters where young Anakin lived with his mother. The buildings, however, were made out of a fortified granary that was hundreds of years old. There is apparently a hotel, too, but the place seems deserted, save for the odd shop or potted plant.

スターウォーズの舞台になったアナキンの住む奴隷居住区に行ってみた [ロケットニュース]

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