# Film locations Places where Star Wars, James Bond, Gladiator, Indiana Jones or Narnia were filmed, and theme attractions based on those sagas, with what you see today and how to visit them. Fuente: https://www.geocalia.com/en/themes/film-locations · Revisado: 2026-11-13 Países: Spain, France, Italy, Greece, Croatia, Switzerland, Czechia ## Destinos de esta zona - [Cabo de Gata](https://www.geocalia.com/en/spain/andalusia/cabo-de-gata.md): Undeveloped beaches between lava flows, white fishing villages and the clearest sea in Andalucía, 40 minutes from Almería. - [Disneyland Paris](https://www.geocalia.com/en/france/ile-de-france/disneyland-paris.md): Disneyland Park and Disney Adventure World, with the new World of Frozen. 45 minutes from central Paris on the RER A. What to see, where to sleep. - [Lake Como](https://www.geocalia.com/en/italy/lombardy/lake-como.md): A glacial lake shaped like an inverted Y at the foot of the Alps, with villas and gardens on its shore. Here you travel by boat: the ferry links Bellagio, Varenna and Menaggio in a quarter of an hour. - [Matera](https://www.geocalia.com/en/italy/matera.md): Two districts of cave houses, rock-cut churches and cisterns dug into soft limestone, hanging above a ravine. People lived in them until the 1950s. - [Val d'Orcia](https://www.geocalia.com/en/italy/tuscany/val-d-orcia.md): A valley south of Siena of cultivated hills, cypresses and Renaissance villages, a World Heritage Site since 2004. Brunello di Montalcino and Pienza pecorino are produced here. - [Venice](https://www.geocalia.com/en/italy/veneto/venice.md): A city built on more than a hundred islands in an Adriatic lagoon, with no road traffic, which was the capital of a maritime republic until 1797. - [Meteora](https://www.geocalia.com/en/greece/thessaly/meteora.md): Towers of sandstone and conglomerate beside Kalambaka with six Orthodox monasteries on their summits, founded from the 14th century onwards. Almost each one closes on a different day: plan around that. A World Heritage Site since 1988. - [Dubrovnik](https://www.geocalia.com/en/croacia/dalmatia/dubrovnik.md): A walled city above the Adriatic, the old Republic of Ragusa and a World Heritage site since 1979. Almost two kilometres of walls, a nature-reserve island ten minutes away by boat and a pedestrian old town that fills up by mid-morning. - [Jungfrau Region](https://www.geocalia.com/en/switzerland/canton-of-bern/jungfrau-region.md): The Lauterbrunnen and Grindelwald valleys, in the Bernese Oberland, beneath the Eiger, Mönch and Jungfrau. A cogwheel train climbs to the Jungfraujoch, at 3,454 m the highest railway station in Europe. - [Bohemian Switzerland](https://www.geocalia.com/en/czechia/bohemian-switzerland.md): Sandstone towers and arches above the Elbe: the Pravčická brána, the Kamenice gorges by boat and Saxon Switzerland across the river, two hours from Prague. ## Shoots and sets: what you will find Here are, arranged by saga, the Geocalia places where scenes from the great film sagas were shot. A filming location is a real place that appeared in the film: a villa, a beach, a square, a monastery. There are no sets or signs; the fun is in recognising it. A theme attraction is the opposite: nothing was filmed there, but everything revolves around the saga. Of these only those at Disneyland Paris are included, and we say so in each case. Each place links to its page, with hours, prices and how to get there. ## Star Wars: a lake, a walled city and two attractions The saga filmed little in Geocalia's destinations, but what it filmed is easy to visit. On Lake Como, the Villa del Balbianello, in Lenno, is the lakeside retreat in Attack of the Clones, where Anakin and Padmé kiss for the first time. What you recognise is the terraced garden and the Durini loggia, open to the two arms of the lake. The villa belongs to the FAI, must always be booked and is reached by a boat of a few minutes from Lenno. Dubrovnik was Canto Bight, the dazzling city of The Last Jedi: the crew filmed there for seven days in March 2016. The rest of Star Wars on this map is not filming. At Disneyland Park, near Paris, Star Wars Hyperspace Mountain and Star Tours are attractions of the saga in Discoveryland: a roller coaster, from 1.20 m in height, and a flight simulator, from 1.02 m. ## James Bond: from a Swiss summit to a Thessaly rock Bond is the saga with the most locations on these pages. The most complete is the Schilthorn, in the Jungfrau region: the round building on the summit, the Piz Gloria, at 2,970 metres, appeared in On Her Majesty's Secret Service. Up there, the Walk of Fame remembers the cast and crew with 15 panels along the ridge, and the revolving restaurant still makes a full turn in 45 minutes. You go up in four cable-car stages from Stechelberg, via Mürren. In Meteora, the Holy Trinity Monastery is the St Cyril's of For Your Eyes Only. The monks did not allow filming inside, so what appears is the rock tower and the monastery on top; today you climb by a staircase carved in the rock and it is closed on Thursdays. Matera was the great Italian location of No Time to Die. The motorbike jump is in Piazza del Duomo, above the Civita, and the car that spins in a circle, in Piazza San Giovanni; everything can be seen free and independently, on a walk through the locations that adds to the one through the Sassi. And back on Lake Como, the same Villa del Balbianello is where Bond recovers with Vesper in Casino Royale, with their kiss under the loggia. In Cabo de Gata, Spain's tourist board places scenes from Never Say Never Again, with Sean Connery, at Los Escullos and El Palmer; the stretch of coast is covered on the route from Los Escullos to La Isleta del Moro. ## Gladiator: the wheat of Pienza The Elysian Fields of Gladiator, the wheat field crossed by a dirt track, are in the Val d'Orcia, at the foot of Pienza. The track leaves the Corsignano parish church and goes towards the Terrapille farm stay: you walk it, free, among working crops. Maximus's house is another estate, Poggio Manzuoli, between San Quirico d'Orcia and Pienza: private, seen only from the gate, with its double row of cypresses. In Pienza itself The English Patient was also filmed, in Piazza Pio II. The season matters more than at any other location on this list. The wheat is green in spring and golden at the start of summer; after the harvest what is left is bare earth, which also makes a photo, but is no longer the one from the film. ## Indiana Jones: a beach in Almería and a façade in Venice In Cabo de Gata, Mónsul beach is the one in Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, with Harrison Ford and Sean Connery: the dune, the lava flows and the Peineta rock are still the same. In San José, Casa Miguel has a dining room full of mementoes of the films shot in the province. In the same film, the Venetian library where Indiana finds the clue to the Grail is the façade of the church of San Barnaba, in Venice. The interiors were shot in a studio, so a visit to Campo San Barnaba is a twenty-minute stop in Dorsoduro. At Disneyland Paris, Indiana Jones and the Temple of Peril is a roller coaster in Adventureland, from 1.40 m: a theme attraction, not a filming location. ## Narnia and the other sagas In Bohemian Switzerland, the great sandstone arch of the Pravčická brána was part of the set of The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, the first Narnia film, shot there in 2004. You can no longer walk on the arch; it is seen from the terraces of the site. Harry Potter and Game of Thrones have pages of their own, because each makes a whole trip: the Harry Potter locations, with the studio on the outskirts of London, and the Game of Thrones locations, from Dubrovnik to northern Spain. ## How to combine several in one trip The locations are spread across half of Europe and do not form a route. The practical thing is to choose one as your reason and link it to what is already nearby. Lake Como is an hour from Milan by train, and Venice is the other great gateway to northern Italy: Balbianello and San Barnaba fit into the same trip. The Val d'Orcia can be done from Rome in a long day by car; Matera, from Bari. Meteora needs at least a night in Kalambaka. ## Un consejo más ### The Schilthorn ticket, on the same day At the summit everything depends on the sky: with clouds there is no view or photo of the Piz Gloria. Check the webcam in the morning and buy the ticket then, not in advance. ## Cuándo no ir ### Looking for Maximus's house at Poggio Manzuoli It is a private, closed estate. From the SP146 gate you see the cypresses, and nothing more. ## Preguntas frecuentes ### Where was Star Wars filmed in Italy? At the Villa del Balbianello, on Lake Como, for Attack of the Clones. It is visited with an FAI reservation. ### Which James Bond locations can be visited? Piz Gloria on the summit of the Schilthorn, in Switzerland; the Holy Trinity Monastery at Meteora; the Sassi of Matera; and the Villa del Balbianello on Lake Como. ### Where are the wheat fields of Gladiator? In the Val d'Orcia, on the outskirts of Pienza, on the track that goes from the Corsignano parish church to the Terrapille farm stay. ### Are the Disneyland Paris attractions filming locations? No. Star Wars Hyperspace Mountain, Star Tours and Indiana Jones and the Temple of Peril are theme attractions. ### Which can be visited free? Mónsul beach, the Sassi of Matera, the Pienza track and Campo San Barnaba are free. The Villa del Balbianello, the Meteora monastery and the Schilthorn cable car are paid.