Bars, restaurants and shops to film in Italy
8 of them, 4 with a photo. 1 have a documented shooting history. Every entry links to the location or to the body that manages it.
Cafes, bars, restaurants, markets, shops and shopping streets, the everyday interiors a schedule eats through quickly.
Shooting in Italy pays back through the Tax credit for international productions (40%): work out the net value on your own spend in the incentive comparison.
Antico Caffè Greco
Bar, restaurant & shop
Coffee house on Via Condotti in Rome open since 1760, with a chain of small salons hung with paintings and 19th-century furnishings, among the city's oldest surviving interiors.
Caffè Florian
Bar, restaurant & shop
Coffee house on Saint Mark's Square in Venice open since 1720, with a sequence of small decorated rooms, mirrors and painted panels largely unchanged since the 19th century.
Seen in: Casino Royale (2006), The Tourist (2010)
Mercato Centrale Firenze
Bar, restaurant & shop
Nineteenth-century iron-and-glass covered market near San Lorenzo in Florence, with a ground-floor produce market and an upper-floor food hall of stalls and communal tables.
Mercato Coperto, Trieste
Bar, restaurant & shop
A 1936 covered market in Trieste with a rationalist facade, wide glazed windows and a spiral ramp linking two trading floors of food, clothing and footwear stalls.
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Caffe Meletti
Bar, restaurant & shop
A Liberty-style historic cafe on the main square of Ascoli Piceno, with marble tables, mirrored walls and an upstairs anisette museum, open to the public since 1907.
Mercato della Vucciria, Palermo
Bar, restaurant & shop
A historic market quarter in central Palermo once devoted to the meat and fish trade, today a reduced but atmospheric warren of stalls, street food stands and nightlife.
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Mercato delle Erbe, Bologna
Bar, restaurant & shop
A covered food market in central Bologna built in 1910 with an iron and glass roof on a Greek cross plan, rebuilt after wartime bomb damage and now combining market stalls with bars and restaurants.
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Mercato Ittico di Ancona
Bar, restaurant & shop
A fish market and cold storage warehouse by Ancona's docks, designed by Gaetano Minnucci, where wholesale auctions for trawled and blue fish are still held on weekday mornings.
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Bars, restaurants and shops elsewhere in Europe
Other kinds of location in Italy
- Theatres, arenas and venues 14
- Industrial and derelict locations 30
- Offices, schools and public buildings 13
- Transport and infrastructure 19
- Film studios and backlots 12
- Hospitals, prisons and institutions 8
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