From one of the first scenes, as Colonel Aureliano Buendía faces down a firing squad against a bloodied, white stucco wall on a clear day, viewers are transported into Macondo, an isolated ...

At the heart of this masterpiece is Macondo, a fictional town that becomes a character in its own right, encapsulating the trials and triumphs of the Buendía family. But how real is Macondo?

Early on in their accaimed TV series adaptation of Gabriel García Márquez's "One Hundred Years of Solitude" Netflix and ...

What we see here is a devoted relocation of Marquez's Macondo from page to screen, sometimes too crisp and precious, sometimes too bright and Like Water For Chocolate-y for a book full of ...

Walking through the 19th-century Macondo, I didn’t just think of the ... This wasn’t the Disney version of Colombia in the movie “Encanto.” It felt earthy and real. Another thing that ...

set in the fictional Colombian town of Macondo. He felt it would never fit into one movie or even two, and that any such project would need to be in Spanish. And so, when news broke in 2019 that ...

Key Scenes: Most scenes in Macondo show the small settlement situated along a vibrant riverbank; these were mostly shot in the La Guajira department right near Colombia’s stunning northern ...

as they establish the fictional town of Macondo in Colombia. A generations-spanning saga imbued with magical realism, political conflict, and family drama, it’s no wonder the Nobel Prize-winning ...