Film and TV locations in Croatia
73 places to shoot in Croatia: 14 theatres, arenas and venues, 13 transport and infrastructure locations, 11 offices, schools and public buildings and 35 more. 31 have a photo and 11 carry practical details the location publishes itself. Search and put three side by side in the locations search.
What Croatia pays back
Croatia runs the Filming in Croatia Production Incentive Programme, worth 25% (up to 30% in less-developed regions) as a cash rebate. Work out the net value on your own spend in the incentive comparison, and find a studio, service company or post house in the 10 companies we list in Croatia.
Regions
- Zagreb 48
- Zadar County 10
- Primorje-Gorski Kotar County 6
And single locations in 6 more regions, all of them in the list below.
Theatres, arenas and venues in Croatia 14
Auditoriums, concert halls, opera houses, cinemas, arenas and event spaces, with the backstage, foyers and dressing rooms that come with them. All 14 on their own page.
Arena Zagreb
Theatre, arena & venue
Large modern indoor arena in Zagreb's Lanište district, built for the 2009 World Men's Handball Championship, listed by the Zagreb Film Office as a sports hall filming location.
Croatian National Theatre in Split
Theatre, arena & venue
A neo-Renaissance national theatre building from 1893 in central Split, with a main stage, tiered auditorium and rehearsal rooms used for opera, drama and ballet.
Croatian National Theatre in Zagreb
Theatre, arena & venue
Neo-baroque opera and drama house on the Republic of Croatia Square in Zagreb, opened in 1895, with a gilded auditorium, foyer and working stage still in daily use.
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Croatian National Theatre Ivan pl. Zajc
Theatre, arena & venue
Opera house opened in 1885 in central Rijeka with a gilded horseshoe auditorium, main stage and rehearsal rooms, still in daily use for opera, ballet and drama.
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Dom Sportova
Theatre, arena & venue
Multi-hall indoor sports and events complex in Zagreb with three separate arenas, listed by the Zagreb Film Office as a sports hall filming location.
Dražen Petrović Basketball Hall
Theatre, arena & venue
Indoor arena at Zagreb's Cibona sports complex with seating for around 5,400, home court of KK Cibona and a regular venue for concerts and other events.
Capacity: 4640
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Kazalište Komedija
Theatre, arena & venue
A musical theatre on Kaptol in Zagreb's old town, staging operettas, musicals and cabaret in a roughly 500-seat auditorium, operating since 1950.
Pula Arena
Theatre, arena & venue
Roman stone amphitheatre in central Pula whose surviving outer wall and tiered seating host summer concerts, the Pula Film Festival and other large outdoor events.
Seen in: Pula Film Festival (host venue)
Stadion Maksimir
Theatre, arena & venue
Zagreb's largest football ground, home of GNK Dinamo Zagreb and the national team, with open bowl seating for more than 35,000 next to Maksimir Park.
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SD Trešnjevka
Theatre, arena & venue
Municipal sports hall in Zagreb's Trešnjevka district, listed by the Zagreb Film Office among the city's sports halls available for filming.
ŠSD Dubrava Sports Hall
Theatre, arena & venue
Multi-purpose school sports hall in Zagreb's Dubrava district, used for handball, basketball and other indoor sports, with bleacher seating and changing rooms.
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Svetice Sports and Recreation Centre
Theatre, arena & venue
A public swimming pool complex in eastern Zagreb with several basins, run by the city's sport and youth office and listed for filming by the Zagreb Film Office.
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Tenis Centar Maksimir
Theatre, arena & venue
A working tennis and squash club in the Maksimir neighbourhood of Zagreb, listed by the Zagreb Film Office under sport objects.
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Vatroslav Lisinski Concert Hall
Theatre, arena & venue
Zagreb's main concert hall on Trg Stjepana Radića, with a large auditorium and smaller performance space, listed by the Zagreb Film Office as an architectural filming location.
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Transport and infrastructure in Croatia 13
Stations, airports, ports, bridges, tunnels, metro lines and rolling stock, including disused stretches that can be closed off for a shoot. All 13 on their own page.
Grič Tunnel
Transport & infrastructure
Pedestrian tunnel cut through Zagreb's Grič hill in the 1940s, linking the Ilica and Mesnička areas of the Upper Town, with bare concrete walls and arched side chambers.
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Port of Rijeka
Transport & infrastructure
Working deep-sea cargo port on the Kvarner Gulf with container terminals, cranes, warehouses and the older Delta basin quaysides close to the city centre.
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Veli Rat Lighthouse
Transport & infrastructure
Working stone lighthouse of 1849 at the northern tip of Dugi Otok, one of the tallest on the Adriatic, reached by a track through pine forest above a rocky cove.
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Zagreb Bus Station
Transport & infrastructure
The city's main long-distance bus terminal on Avenija Marina Držića, a working transit hub catalogued by the Zagreb Film Office for traffic-connection scenes.
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Domovinski Most (Homeland Bridge)
Transport & infrastructure
A cable-stayed road bridge over the Sava on Zagreb's eastern bypass, listed by the Zagreb Film Office as a traffic-connection location.
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Franjo Tuđman Airport
Transport & infrastructure
Croatia's main international airport south of Zagreb, with a passenger terminal built in 2017, an aircraft apron, control tower and cargo facilities.
Hendrix Bridge, Zagreb
Transport & infrastructure
A pedestrian and cycling bridge over the Sava in the Kajzerica district, catalogued by the Zagreb Film Office among the city's bridges.
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Jankomir Bridge
Transport & infrastructure
Road bridge carrying the Zagreb bypass over the Sava river on the city's western edge, a steel and concrete structure used for traffic and industrial-area shots.
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Oštri Rat Lighthouse, Zadar
Transport & infrastructure
A working lighthouse with a spiral staircase and keeper's house on the Puntamika coast at Zadar, listed by the Zadar Film Commission.
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Sljeme Tunnel
Transport & infrastructure
A road tunnel through the Medvednica hills north of Zagreb, listed by the Zagreb Film Office under traffic-connection locations.
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West Railway Station, Zagreb
Transport & infrastructure
A smaller working railway station in the Črnomerec district of Zagreb, listed in the Zagreb Film Office catalogue alongside the nearby Hendrix and Youth bridges.
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Zadar Airport
Transport & infrastructure
An international airport at Zemunik Donji outside Zadar, with two runways and a modern terminal, listed by the Zadar Film Commission for filming.
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Zagreb Main Railway Station
Transport & infrastructure
Zagreb's principal railway station, an 1892 Austro-Hungarian building on Tomislav Square with a domed main hall and platforms facing the city's museum quarter.
Offices, schools and public buildings in Croatia 11
Offices, town halls, courtrooms, libraries, universities and schools: the interiors most contemporary drama actually needs. All 11 on their own page.
Academy of Music, University of Zagreb
Office, school & public building
The University of Zagreb's music academy building on Gundulićeva ulica in the city centre, listed by the Zagreb Film Office among schools and universities.
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Art Pavilion Zagreb
Office, school & public building
Steel-framed exhibition hall on Zagreb's Zrinjevac park, originally built for the 1896 Budapest exhibition and re-erected in the city, now an art gallery with a domed central hall.
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Mimara Museum
Office, school & public building
Neo-Renaissance former school building on Roosevelt Square in Zagreb, now home to the Mimara Museum's collection of European paintings, sculpture and applied art.
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Museum of Arts and Crafts, Zagreb
Office, school & public building
A decorative-arts museum on Trg Republike Hrvatske in central Zagreb, its historicist building and galleries listed by the Zagreb Film Office as a filming location.
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National and University Library in Zagreb
Office, school & public building
Croatia's national library, a large modernist building from 1995 with reading rooms, book stacks and a central atrium, serving as the country's main research library.
Botanical Garden of the University of Zagreb
Office, school & public building
University-run botanical garden next to Zagreb's main railway station, with greenhouses, ponds and around 5,000 plant species laid out as an English-style landscape park.
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Governor's Palace, Rijeka
Office, school & public building
A late 19th-century palace on Rijeka's waterfront built for the Hungarian-appointed governor, now housing the Maritime and History Museum of the Croatian Littoral.
Museum of Ancient Glass, Zadar
Office, school & public building
A museum in central Zadar holding Roman-era glass, with a glassblowing workshop, souvenir shop and exhibition halls, listed by the Zadar Film Commission.
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Zadar County Office Building
Office, school & public building
The seat of the Zadar County administration on the Zadar peninsula, a walled building by the sea, listed by the Zadar Film Commission.
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Zagreb Faculty of Law
Office, school & public building
Main building of the University of Zagreb's Faculty of Law, listed by the Zagreb Film Office among the city's school and university buildings available for filming.
Zagreb Fair
Office, school & public building
Mid-twentieth-century trade fair ground south of the Sava with modernist exhibition pavilions, large halls and an open showground used for trade events year round.
132,000 sq m of pavilion space and 6,000 sq m of open-air space; the Technology Park occupies pavilion 12, at 5,000 sq m.
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Hotels and interiors in Croatia 7
Hotels, spas and their lobbies, ballrooms, bars and corridors, including closed or seasonal properties that can take over a whole unit. Hotels and interiors across Europe.
Esplanade Zagreb Hotel
Hotel & interiors
Art Deco hotel opened in 1925 next to Zagreb's main station to serve Orient Express passengers, with a marble lobby, period ballroom and historic guest rooms.
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The Westin Zagreb
Hotel & interiors
High-rise hotel in central Zagreb with a casino, indoor pool and spa, conference and banqueting rooms, and a restaurant and bars used for hospitality shoots.
340 rooms and suites, 13 multifunctional congress and banqueting rooms, indoor swimming pool, spa and casino
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Hotel International Zagreb
Hotel & interiors
Business hotel in Zagreb with 207 rooms, six multifunctional meeting rooms, a casino and a lobby bar with terrace, listed by the Zagreb Film Office as a filming location.
Capacity: 207 · 207 rooms, restaurant, lobby bar with terrace, fitness room, casino, six meeting rooms
Hotel Jadran, Zagreb
Hotel & interiors
A bed-and-breakfast hotel on Vlaška ulica between Zagreb's Upper and Lower Town, with 49 rooms and a restaurant, listed by the Zagreb Film Office.
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Hotel Kvarner (Grand Hotel Kvarner)
Hotel & interiors
The first purpose-built hotel on the eastern Adriatic coast, opened in 1884 on Opatija's seafront, with a Belle Epoque facade, period function rooms and a sea-facing terrace.
Hotel Panorama Zagreb
Hotel & interiors
Business hotel near Zagreb's fairground with conference rooms, a restaurant, lobby bar and fitness studio, used for corporate and hospitality scenes.
280 rooms and suites, 9 multifunctional meeting rooms, restaurant, lobby bar with terrace, fitness studio and sauna
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Sheraton Zagreb Hotel
Hotel & interiors
A 306-room hotel on Ulica kneza Borne in central Zagreb with two restaurants, a piano bar, casino and indoor pool, listed by the Zagreb Film Office.
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Industrial and derelict locations in Croatia 6
Factories, warehouses, power stations, mines, depots and abandoned buildings: raw space, hard surfaces and the kind of decay that is impossible to build. Industrial and derelict locations across Europe.
Lauba
Industrial & derelict
Former Zagreb textile and later arms factory converted into an open art house, with a large column-free exhibition hall, glass additions and a sculpture garden.
Capacity: 2000 · 1,350 sq m of exhibition space; the venue states it can host groups of 20 to 2,000 guests, for dinners, concerts, conferences, weddings, workshops,...
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Abandoned Bus Station, Gračac
Industrial & derelict
A disused bus terminal in the inland town of Gračac, next to the main road, listed by the Zadar Film Commission as a derelict-places location.
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Abandoned Military Airfield, Šepurine
Industrial & derelict
A disused military runway with deteriorated hangars near the village of Šepurine by Nin, set between the sea and Velebit mountain, listed by the Zadar Film Commission.
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Pag Salt Pans
Industrial & derelict
Working saltworks on Pag island with roots in Roman times, laid out as shallow evaporation basins and canals, with a visitor centre run by the salt company Solana Pag.
Seen in: Following the Salt (documentary, per Zadar Film Commission)
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Rikard Benčić Complex
Industrial & derelict
Former sugar refinery and later Rikard Benčić machine factory in central Rijeka, restored as an industrial heritage complex now housing the Rijeka City Museum.
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Tvornica Kulture
Industrial & derelict
Former factory building in Zagreb converted into a concert and events venue, with a large and a small performance hall and an on-site bar, hired out for concerts, conferences and corporate events.
Veliki pogon (large hall) and Mali pogon (small hall) performance spaces, on-site bar
Bars, restaurants and shops in Croatia 5
Cafes, bars, restaurants, markets, shops and shopping streets, the everyday interiors a schedule eats through quickly. Bars, restaurants and shops across Europe.
Dolac Market
Bar, restaurant & shop
Zagreb's main open-air produce market on a raised square above the central square, with rows of red umbrellas, fruit and vegetable stalls and an indoor hall, run by the city market company.
Arena Centar, Zagreb
Bar, restaurant & shop
A large shopping centre in Novi Zagreb next to the Arena Zagreb hall, listed by the Zagreb Film Office as an architectural filming location.
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Britanski Square Market
Bar, restaurant & shop
Small neighbourhood square and daily market in Zagreb's Britanski trg area, with market stalls and street-level cafes catalogued by the Zagreb Film Office as a shooting location.
Opatovina
Bar, restaurant & shop
Pedestrian street and square in Zagreb's Upper Town lined with restaurants and bars, listed by the Zagreb Film Office as a filming location for street scenes.
Zadar City Market
Bar, restaurant & shop
An open-air produce market with green and white awnings in the centre of Zadar's old town, listed by the Zadar Film Commission.
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Forests and lakes in Croatia 5
Woodland, forests, lakes and rivers, with the access tracks and permits that shooting in them needs. Forests and lakes across Europe.
Bundek Park
Forest & lake
Lakeside park in Novi Zagreb with two lakes, a bathing area, barbecue spots, playgrounds and a cycling and skating track around the water.
545,000 m2 park with 470,000 m2 of green area, 50,000 m2 of lakes, 10,000 m2 of paths, 10 free barbecue areas and a 1,650 metre cycling and skating...
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Krka National Park
Forest & lake
Karst river canyon with a chain of travertine waterfalls, lakes and old watermills, plus the island monastery of Visovac reached only by boat.
Plitvice Lakes National Park
Forest & lake
Chain of sixteen terraced turquoise lakes linked by waterfalls in a forested karst canyon.
Seen in: Treasure of the Silver Lake (1962), Karl May Winnetou westerns (1962-1968)
Kopački Rit Nature Park
Forest & lake
A wetland nature park at the confluence of the Drava and Danube rivers, with flooded forest, reed beds, an observation tower and boat routes through the marshland.
Lake Jarun
Forest & lake
Recreational lake and park complex in western Zagreb built for the 1987 World Student Games, with rowing lanes, beaches, cafes and cycling paths around the water.
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Palaces and landmarks in Croatia 2
Palaces, state rooms and recognisable landmarks, the places an establishing shot is built around. Palaces and landmarks across Europe.
Diocletian's Palace
Palace & landmark
Fourth-century Roman imperial palace whose walls, basement halls and peristyle form the living core of Split's old town, mixing ancient masonry with shops and homes.
Seen in: Game of Thrones (Meereen, seasons 4 to 6)
Brijuni National Park
Palace & landmark
An archipelago of fourteen islands off Fažana, the former summer residence of Josip Broz Tito, with parkland, a safari zone, Roman and Byzantine ruins and a residence complex.
Churches and monasteries in Croatia 2
Cathedrals, churches, chapels, monasteries and cloisters, plus the crypts and refectories behind them. Churches and monasteries across Europe.
Church of St Mark, Zagreb
Church & monastery
A medieval parish church on St Mark's Square in Zagreb's Upper Town, known for its tiled roof, listed by the Zagreb Film Office as an Old Town location.
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Church of St. Donatus
Church & monastery
Circular ninth-century pre-Romanesque church built partly from recycled Roman stone on Zadar's ancient forum, now used as a concert venue for its acoustics.
Seen in: Through the Centuries (per Zadar Film Commission)
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Historic towns and streets in Croatia 2
Old towns, squares and streets that can double for a period without dressing out a modern skyline. Historic towns and streets across Europe.
Dubrovnik Old Town
Historic town & street
Walled seaside old town with intact medieval ramparts, baroque stone streets and fortresses rising straight from the Adriatic.
Seen in: Game of Thrones (King's Landing, from season 2), Star Wars: The Last Jedi (2017), Robin Hood (2018)
Oktogon Passage
Historic town & street
A covered shopping arcade with a vaulted glass roof linking Ilica and Trg Petra Preradovića in central Zagreb, catalogued by the Zagreb Film Office as an architectural location.
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Castles and estates in Croatia 2
Castles, fortresses, manor houses and country estates, usually with grounds, outbuildings and period interiors in one place. Castles and estates across Europe.
St. Nicholas Fortress
Castle & estate
Triangular sixteenth-century sea fortress guarding the entrance to Šibenik's channel, a UNESCO World Heritage site reachable only by boat.
Seen in: Game of Thrones (Astapor scenes, season 3)
Dvorac Podolje (Hamor Castle)
Castle & estate
A small noble manor house in the Hamor part of Samobor, near Zagreb, listed by the Zagreb Film Office as a castle-and-manor location.
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Film studios and backlots in Croatia 2
Sound stages, backlots, water tanks and virtual production volumes you can hire, with the crew base and power that go with them. Film studios and backlots across Europe.
Jadran Film
Studio & backlot
Film studio founded in 1946 with stages and backlot grounds in Zagreb's Dubrava district, host to well over a hundred international co-productions.
Seen in: Winnetou series (1962-1968), The Tin Drum (1979), Sophie's Choice (1982)
Nine stages totalling 8,000 m2; the largest are Studio 2 (1,200 m2, 47 x 23 m, over 10 m high) and Studio 4 (1,200 m2, 60 x 20 m, 8 m working height),...
Zagreb Film
Studio & backlot
Croatia's veteran animation studio, producing shorts and features since 1953 across three Zagreb premises with artist studios, shooting equipment and a small theatre.
Seen in: Surogat, Professor Balthazar
Stop-animation studio at Savska cesta 9-11 in central Zagreb with 452 m2 of working space for building sets, puppets and props, plus a separate...
Mountains and wilderness in Croatia 1
Mountains, moors, volcanic ground, glaciers and empty terrain, where access and weather decide the schedule. Mountains and wilderness across Europe.
Medvednica Nature Park
Mountains & wilderness
The forested mountain range above Zagreb, with the ruined medieval Medvedgrad fortress, a former ore mine open to visitors, hiking trails and the Sljeme peak and ski area.
Coast and beaches in Croatia 1
Beaches, cliffs, harbours and coastline, including stretches that can be closed off in the off season. Coast and beaches across Europe.
Opatija
Coast & beach
Belle-epoque resort town on the Kvarner riviera with a twelve-kilometre coastal promenade, villa gardens and grand hotels dating from the Austro-Hungarian era.
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