Film and TV locations in Greece
65 places to shoot in Greece: 14 industrial and derelict locations, 13 offices, schools and public buildings, 11 transport and infrastructure locations and 27 more. 21 have a photo and 5 carry practical details the location publishes itself. Search and put three side by side in the locations search.
What Greece pays back
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Regions
- Attica 20
- South Aegean 5
- Crete 4
- Athens, Attica 4
- East Macedonia and Thrace 4
- Ionian Islands 3
- Central Macedonia 3
- Thessaloniki, Macedonia 3
And single locations in 16 more regions, all of them in the list below.
Industrial and derelict locations in Greece 14
Factories, warehouses, power stations, mines, depots and abandoned buildings: raw space, hard surfaces and the kind of decay that is impossible to build. All 14 on their own page.
Allatini Factory
Industrial & derelict
A 19th century flour mill and brewery complex in Thessaloniki with brick industrial buildings and tall chimneys, partly disused, used as an industrial period backdrop.
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Elefsina Industrial Heritage Sites
Industrial & derelict
Cluster of disused nineteenth and twentieth-century factory buildings, including a former soap works and oil mill, along the Elefsina waterfront, reused as venues since the town's 2023 European Capital of Culture year.
EMST, National Museum of Contemporary Art
Industrial & derelict
Athens contemporary art museum housed in the former Fix Brewery building on Kallirois Avenue, listed by the Hellenic Film Commission as a filming location.
Factory, Heraklion
Industrial & derelict
A working factory building on the outskirts of Heraklion in Crete, listed by the national film commission as an industrial location for interior and exterior filming.
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Fertilizer Factory, Drapetsona
Industrial & derelict
A derelict phosphate fertiliser plant on the Piraeus waterfront at Drapetsona, with rusted processing towers and silos used as a decayed industrial backdrop.
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Lavrio Technological and Cultural Park
Industrial & derelict
Former nineteenth and twentieth-century silver and lead mining and smelting works at Lavrio, with brick furnace buildings, workshops and ore-washing structures now reused as a research and cultural park.
Linoperamata Power Plant
Industrial & derelict
A public power station on the coast west of Heraklion, listed as an industrial landscape filming location by the Hellenic Film Commission.
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Megalo Livadi Mines, Serifos
Industrial & derelict
The disused iron ore loading and mining works at Megalo Livadi on Serifos, with rusted machinery, jetties and mine galleries left from the island's early 20th century mining industry.
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Milos Mines
Industrial & derelict
Disused open-cast sulphur and perlite mining area on the island of Milos, with cut rock faces, old loading structures and access roads near the port town of Adamas.
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Milos Mining Museum
Industrial & derelict
Museum at Adamas on Milos covering the island's sulphur, bentonite and perlite mining industry, with equipment and the surrounding quarried volcanic landscape.
Old Tobacco Warehouses, Xanthi
Industrial & derelict
A cluster of late 19th and early 20th century tobacco processing and storage warehouses in Xanthi's old town, with brick facades and large open floors used for industrial and period townscape scenes.
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Power Plant, Katerini
Industrial & derelict
An industrial power plant near Katerini in Central Macedonia, listed by the national film commission as a large-scale industrial filming location.
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Power Station of Lavrio
Industrial & derelict
A power station on the coast at Lavrio in southern Attica, part of the town's industrial mining and metallurgy heritage, used as a large-scale industrial backdrop.
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Venetian Shipyard, Corfu
Industrial & derelict
A former Venetian-era shipyard site near Corfu's Old Fortress, with stone quays and boat sheds from the island's maritime history, used for historic waterfront scenes.
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Offices, schools and public buildings in Greece 13
Offices, town halls, courtrooms, libraries, universities and schools: the interiors most contemporary drama actually needs. All 13 on their own page.
Academy of Athens
Office, school & public building
Neoclassical seat of Greece's national academy of sciences and letters on Panepistimiou Street in central Athens, with a colonnaded portico and tall columns topped by statues of Athena and Apollo.
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Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
Office, school & public building
Greece's largest university, its main campus built from the 1950s in central Thessaloniki with lecture halls, a library, faculty buildings and open campus grounds.
Athens City Hall
Office, school & public building
Seat of the Athens municipal council on Kotzia Square, a 19th-century building with a council chamber, offices and an inner courtyard used for civic scenes.
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Hellenic Parliament
Office, school & public building
Former royal palace on Syntagma Square that now houses the Hellenic Parliament, with a long neoclassical facade overlooking the square and the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier.
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Thessaloniki City Hall
Office, school & public building
The seat of the Thessaloniki municipal government on Vasileos Georgiou Square, listed as a modern architecture filming location by the Hellenic Film Commission.
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Anargyrios and Korgialenios School of Spetses
Office, school & public building
Historic boarding school building on the island of Spetses, listed by the Hellenic Film Commission as a filming location among its historic sites.
Athens Conservatoire
Office, school & public building
Music conservatory building in central Athens, listed by the Hellenic Film Commission among its Modern Greece filming locations.
Benaki Museum, Piraeus Street building
Office, school & public building
One of the Benaki Museum's Athens buildings, on Pireos street in the Rouf district, used for exhibitions and events and listed as a modern Greece filming location by the Hellenic Film Commission.
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National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
Office, school & public building
The neoclassical main building of Greece's oldest university on Panepistimiou Street in central Athens, part of the 19th century Athens Trilogy, used for grand academic and civic interiors and facades.
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National Bank of Greece Headquarters
Office, school & public building
Head office building of Greece's National Bank in central Athens, listed by the Hellenic Film Commission among its Modern Greece filming locations.
National Historical Museum (Old Parliament House)
Office, school & public building
The former Greek Parliament building on Stadiou Street in Athens, now the National Historical Museum, with 19th century chambers and a grand facade used for period government scenes.
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National Library of Greece, old building
Office, school & public building
Neoclassical former home of the National Library of Greece on Panepistimiou Street, part of the Athens Trilogy with a domed reading room and a marble double staircase.
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Serifos City Hall
Office, school & public building
The town hall of the Cycladic island of Serifos, a small cubic municipal building in the hilltop settlement of Chora, used for island town and civic scenes.
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Transport and infrastructure in Greece 11
Stations, airports, ports, bridges, tunnels, metro lines and rolling stock, including disused stretches that can be closed off for a shoot. All 11 on their own page.
Fiskardo Port
Transport & infrastructure
A small working fishing harbour on the northern tip of Kefalonia lined with pastel Venetian-style buildings, used for coastal village and harbour scenes.
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Port of Piraeus
Transport & infrastructure
Greece's main passenger and container port beside Athens, with working quays, ferry terminals, a fishing harbour and the older Mikrolimano marina nearby.
Seen in: Never on Sunday (1960)
Port of Thessaloniki
Transport & infrastructure
Working container and passenger port on Thessaloniki's waterfront, with cargo piers, a passenger terminal and the early twentieth-century customs house pier 1 warehouses.
Chalki Port (Emporeio)
Transport & infrastructure
Small harbour of Emporeio, the main village of Chalki island in the Dodecanese, lined with restored neoclassical captains' houses and the working ferry and fishing quay.
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Diakofto-Kalavryta Rack Railway
Transport & infrastructure
Narrow-gauge rack-and-pinion heritage railway climbing the Vouraikos Gorge from the coast at Diakofto to the mountain town of Kalavryta, using original early twentieth-century rolling stock.
Nafpaktos Port
Transport & infrastructure
A small circular Venetian-era harbour in the town of Nafpaktos on the Gulf of Corinth, enclosed by old fortifications, used for historic port and townscape scenes.
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Nestos Railway
Transport & infrastructure
A stretch of the historic railway line between Xanthi and Kavala that follows the Nestos river gorge, with track, bridges and forested slopes for period rail scenes.
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Rethymno Venetian Harbour
Transport & infrastructure
Working Venetian-era harbour of Rethymno, Crete, with a stone lighthouse, quayside tavernas and fishing boats moored below the old town and the Fortezza fortress.
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Rio-Antirrio Bridge
Transport & infrastructure
Cable-stayed suspension bridge nearly three kilometres long crossing the Gulf of Corinth on four pylons, linking the Peloponnese at Rio to Antirrio on the mainland.
Symi Port (Gialos)
Transport & infrastructure
Working harbour of Symi town, Gialos, ringed by pastel-coloured neoclassical houses on the hillside, with fishing boats, cafes and the old customs house on the quay.
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Tichero Railway Station
Transport & infrastructure
A small railway station in the village of Tichero in the Evros region of northeastern Greece, on a rural line used for period and rural transport scenes.
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Historic towns and streets in Greece 7
Old towns, squares and streets that can double for a period without dressing out a modern skyline. Historic towns and streets across Europe.
Chalkida
Historic town & street
The main town of Evia on the narrow Evripos Strait, linked to the mainland by a sliding bridge, with a working waterfront used for town and bridge scenes.
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Karystos
Historic town & street
A harbour town on the southern coast of Evia below Mount Ochi, documented as a filming location in the Hellenic Film Commission's catalogue.
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Kavala
Historic town & street
A port city on Greece's northern coast with a Byzantine aqueduct, a hilltop old town and a working harbour, used for historic townscape and waterfront scenes.
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Nafplio
Historic town & street
Former first capital of modern Greece on the Argolic Gulf, with a Venetian old town, two hilltop fortresses and a small fort standing on an islet in the harbour.
Ano Poli (Thessaloniki Old Town)
Historic town & street
Hillside old quarter of Thessaloniki above the Byzantine walls, with narrow lanes, Ottoman-era houses and views down over the modern city and the Thermaic Gulf.
Chania Old Town
Historic town & street
Venetian harbour town on Crete with a stone lighthouse, waterfront arsenali warehouses, a former mosque and a maze of Venetian and Ottoman-era lanes behind the quay.
Corfu Old Town
Historic town & street
Fortified Ionian old town shaped by Venetian, French and British rule, with two citadels, a cricket ground on the Spianada and narrow Venetian-style lanes known as kantounia.
Theatres, arenas and venues in Greece 5
Auditoriums, concert halls, opera houses, cinemas, arenas and event spaces, with the backstage, foyers and dressing rooms that come with them. Theatres, arenas and venues across Europe.
Ancient Theatre of Epidaurus
Theatre, arena & venue
Fourth-century BC stone amphitheatre seating around thirteen thousand, renowned for its acoustics and still used each summer for live theatre performances.
Zappeion Hall
Theatre, arena & venue
A 19th century exhibition and conference hall next to the National Garden in Athens, with a colonnaded courtyard and grand halls used for formal indoor and exterior scenes.
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Megaron, The Athens Concert Hall
Theatre, arena & venue
Marble-clad concert hall complex in central Athens with several auditoriums, the largest seating around two thousand, plus rehearsal and conference spaces.
Capacity: 1960 · Christos Lambrakis Hall: fixed theatre-style seating for 1,960 (1,100 stalls, 860 circle) with 2,500 m2 of foyer space and 24 stage fly bars....
OAKA Athens Olympic Sports Complex
Theatre, arena & venue
Olympic athletics stadium and sports complex in Athens with a Santiago Calatrava glass and steel roof, an indoor arena, velodrome and swimming pools on the same grounds.
Capacity: 69618 · Central Olympic Stadium seats 69,618, with a football pitch of 105m x 68m and a 400m athletics track with 9 lanes. Includes 14 official suites, 480...
Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Centre
Theatre, arena & venue
Cultural complex on the Faliro waterfront in Athens housing the Greek National Opera and National Library, listed by the Hellenic Film Commission as a filming location.
Churches and monasteries in Greece 3
Cathedrals, churches, chapels, monasteries and cloisters, plus the crypts and refectories behind them. Churches and monasteries across Europe.
Aslan Pasha Mosque
Church & monastery
An 18th century Ottoman mosque inside Ioannina Castle, now housing the municipal ethnographic museum, with a domed prayer hall and minaret used for period Ottoman-era scenes.
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Meteora
Church & monastery
Byzantine monasteries perched on sheer sandstone rock pillars rising above the Thessalian plain.
Seen in: For Your Eyes Only (1981)
Toplou Monastery
Church & monastery
A fortified Orthodox monastery in eastern Crete with thick defensive walls, a bell tower and an inner courtyard, still an active working monastery with its own wine and olive oil estate.
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Film studios and backlots in Greece 3
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.
Kapa Studios
Studio & backlot
A 70,000 sqm studio complex in Spata, Attica, with twelve sound stages from 400 to 2,100 sqm, plus a 20,000 sqm backlot with standing sets including a 1960s Greek village and a reality-TV house.
Seen in: House of David, Tehran, The Witch, Sasmos
12 sound stages (Spata and Markopoulo sites) from 400 sqm/7.3m height to 2,100 sqm/18m height, HD-equipped control rooms, generators and climate...
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Nu Boyana Hellenic Film Studios
Studio & backlot
Purpose-built studio complex near Thessaloniki airport with eight sound stages totalling about 15,000 square metres and a 25,000 square metre backlot.
Seen in: Expend4bles (2023)
10 sound stages from 290 m2 to 1,764 m2. Largest are Stage 6 at 1,764 m2 (49m x 36m, 12m height), Stage 5 at 1,500 m2 (60m x 25m, 11.95m height) and...
Studio Karamanos
Studio & backlot
Television and event studio in Ilion, Athens, combined with a camera and lighting equipment rental house, used for entertainment shows and commercials.
Seen in: MasterChef, Who Wants to Be a Millionaire
Site describes it as the largest TV studio in Greece and one of the largest in the Balkans; camera equipment (Arri film and digital cameras, lenses,...
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Cities and skylines in Greece 2
Skylines, rooftops, viewpoints and city panoramas for establishing shots. Cities and skylines across Europe.
Kotzia Square
City & skyline
Central Athens square in front of the City Hall, with an excavated ancient road visible under glass, arcaded 19th-century buildings and the National Bank headquarters nearby.
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National Garden of Athens
City & skyline
19th-century public park behind the Greek Parliament in central Athens, with shaded paths, ponds, ancient fragments and a small zoo, bordering the Zappeion grounds.
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Palaces and landmarks in Greece 1
Palaces, state rooms and recognisable landmarks, the places an establishing shot is built around. Palaces and landmarks across Europe.
Achilleion Palace
Palace & landmark
Neoclassical summer palace built for Empress Elisabeth of Austria above Gastouri, Corfu, with a garden of statues, a colonnaded terrace and sea views, run today as a museum.
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Bars, restaurants and shops in Greece 1
Cafes, bars, restaurants, markets, shops and shopping streets, the everyday interiors a schedule eats through quickly. Bars, restaurants and shops across Europe.
City Link
Bar, restaurant & shop
A shopping, dining and entertainment complex in central Athens near Panepistimiou street, listed as a modern Greece filming location by the Hellenic Film Commission.
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Hotels and interiors in Greece 1
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.
Hotel Grande Bretagne
Hotel & interiors
Nineteenth-century grand hotel on Athens' Syntagma Square, with a marble lobby, ballrooms, a rooftop restaurant facing the Acropolis and a long history as the city's diplomatic hotel.
Villages and countryside in Greece 1
Villages, farmland, meadows and rural roads: open country with somewhere to put a unit base. Villages and countryside across Europe.
Phaistos Rural Fields
Village & countryside
Open farmland and olive groves on the Phaistos plain in south-central Crete, with the Minoan palace ruins nearby and views over the Messara valley to the Psiloritis range.
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Coast and beaches in Greece 1
Beaches, cliffs, harbours and coastline, including stretches that can be closed off in the off season. Coast and beaches across Europe.
Skopelos
Coast & beach
Pine-fringed Aegean island with pebble coves, a whitewashed harbour town and the clifftop chapel of Agios Ioannis.
Seen in: Mamma Mia! (2008)
Hospitals, prisons and institutions in Greece 1
Working and disused hospitals, clinics, prisons, barracks and asylums: corridors, wards and cells that are close to impossible to fake convincingly. Hospitals, prisons and institutions across Europe.
Spinalonga
Hospital, prison & institution
A fortified islet off Elounda that served as a leper colony from 1904 to 1957 after centuries as a Venetian and Ottoman stronghold, now an uninhabited archaeological site reached by boat.
Seen in: To Nisi (2010 TV series based on Victoria Hislop's The Island)
Mountains and wilderness in Greece 1
Mountains, moors, volcanic ground, glaciers and empty terrain, where access and weather decide the schedule. Mountains and wilderness across Europe.
Vikos Gorge
Mountains & wilderness
Deep limestone gorge in the Zagori region of the Pindus mountains, with sheer cliff walls, a hiking trail along the riverbed and stone-built villages on its rim.