Film and TV locations in Italy
127 places to shoot in Italy: 30 industrial and derelict locations, 19 transport and infrastructure locations, 14 theatres, arenas and venues and 64 more. 54 have a photo and 54 carry practical details the location publishes itself. Search and put three side by side in the locations search.
What Italy pays back
Italy runs the Tax credit for international productions, worth 40% as a tax credit. Work out the net value on your own spend in the incentive comparison, and find a studio, service company or post house in the 44 companies we list in Italy.
Regions
- Apulia 11
- Milan, Lombardy 8
- Lazio 8
- Emilia-Romagna 8
- Veneto 7
- Lombardy 6
- Piedmont 6
- Sicily 6
- Campania 6
- Trentino-Alto Adige 5
- Friuli-Venezia Giulia 5
- Rome, Lazio 4
- Marche 4
- Tuscany 4
- South Tyrol 3
- Umbria 3
- Sardinia 3
- Turin, Piedmont 3
- Calabria 3
And single locations in 19 more regions, all of them in the list below.
Industrial and derelict locations in Italy 30
Factories, warehouses, power stations, mines, depots and abandoned buildings: raw space, hard surfaces and the kind of decay that is impossible to build. All 30 on their own page.
Arsenale di Venezia
Industrial & derelict
The historic Venetian state shipyard, a walled complex of docks, cranes and covered building halls dating back to the twelfth century, partly used today for exhibitions.
Ex Manifattura Tabacchi, Rovereto
Industrial & derelict
A former Austro-Hungarian state tobacco factory in Rovereto's Borgo Sacco quarter, running from 1854 with over a thousand workers by the century's end and now an eco-innovation business incubator.
Water and mains power on site, paved road access for large vehicles
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Fabbrica del Vapore
Industrial & derelict
Former 19th-century tram and rail-carriage factory in Milan, now a municipal cultural centre with industrial brick halls and an outdoor yard used for exhibitions and events.
The spaces page lists: Spazio Cattedrale (three naves plus atrium), Sala Colonne (four internal pillars), Spazio Messina (two levels with lift...
Interporto di Padova
Industrial & derelict
A large freight and logistics hub south-east of Padua, with warehouses, container yards, rail sidings and road access built for intermodal cargo handling.
Manifattura Tabacchi
Industrial & derelict
Former state tobacco factory in Florence, redeveloped into a mixed district with courtyards, industrial-style halls and a dedicated events venue called Motel.
The Motel event space (Building B3, available from March 2026) has 3,000 sqm of usable area, offered in configurations of 500, 1,000 or 1,500 sqm.
OGR Torino
Industrial & derelict
Former 19th-century railway repair workshop in Turin, restored into a steel-and-glass exhibition and event hall with an attached production and rehearsal wing.
Capacity: 2750 · The corporate events page lists two main halls: one of 4,000 sqm (including stage and backstage) holding up to 2,750 people standing in an empty...
Porto Flavia, Iglesias
Industrial & derelict
An early 20th century mineral loading facility cut into a coastal cliff near Iglesias, part of an underground tunnel system that loaded ore directly onto ships, now inside a mining heritage park.
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Base Milano
Industrial & derelict
Former Ansaldo machine works in Milan's Tortona district, converted into a co-working and cultural hub whose large industrial halls host exhibitions, fashion events and shoots.
Capacity: 1000 · The venue's own venue fact sheet (2025) lists: Ground Hall 400 sqm, ceiling height 8.3 m, capacity 200 seated or 1,000 standing; Bistro 120 sqm, 80...
Cantiere Ernesto Riva, Laglio
Industrial & derelict
A boatyard on Lake Como founded in 1771 at Laglio, still building and restoring wooden rowing, sailing and motor boats, with a second workshop opened at Maslianico in 2010.
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Cava di Bauxite di Spinazzola
Industrial & derelict
A red bauxite quarry inside Alta Murgia National Park between Andria and Spinazzola, worked from 1950 to 1978, with unpaved tracks crossing bare eroded terrain.
Seen in: Pinocchio
No water or mains power on site, unpaved and off-road vehicle access
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Cava di Pusiano
Industrial & derelict
A disused stone quarry near Lake Pusiano, worked for decades and later used as an illegal dump before the municipality reclaimed it and reopened the site in 2004.
Mains power but no running water on site, car access
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Cave di Carrara
Industrial & derelict
Working marble quarries in the Apuan Alps about ten kilometres above Carrara, cut into the mountain since antiquity and still the source of stone used by Michelangelo and Canova.
Seen in: Quantum of Solace, The Brutalist
Water and mains power on site, unpaved access road
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Cave Dipinte di Rubbio
Industrial & derelict
A group of former limestone quarries at 1,057 metres above Bassano del Grappa, their rock amphitheatres painted with murals by local artist Toni Zarpellon since the 1980s.
No water or mains power on site, reached by paved road, unpaved track or footpath
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Centrale Elettrica di Fies
Industrial & derelict
An early 20th century hydroelectric plant on the Sarca river near Dro, partly still in operation, since 2002 also run as Centrale Fies, a laboratory for theatre, cinema and performance.
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Centrale Idrodinamica e Sottostazione Elettrica, Trieste
Industrial & derelict
A restored 1887 to 1890 hydraulic power station in Trieste's Porto Vecchio that once pressurised water for the port's cranes and hoists, with accumulator towers, a boiler house and a tall chimney, now a museum building.
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Ex Base NATO di Calice Ligure
Industrial & derelict
A disused NATO military installation in the Ligurian Apennines above Calice Ligure, fenced and surrounded by forest with views over the coast, reached by provincial road.
No water or mains power on site, road access for large vehicles, off-road and by helicopter
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Ex Base USAF Troposcatter, Monte Limbara
Industrial & derelict
A fenced former US Air Force radio relay station at about 1,300 metres on Monte Limbara, operated from 1966 to 1993 and now owned by the Sardinian regional government.
Mains power but no running water on site, road access for large and off-road vehicles
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Ex Centrale Idroelettrica di Malnisio
Industrial & derelict
The Pitter hydroelectric plant near Pordenone, one of the first in Italy, built in 1895-96 on the Cellina river and preserved today as an industrial heritage museum in wooded foothill surroundings.
Water and mains power on site, paved road access
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Ex Reggiane, Reggio Emilia
Industrial & derelict
A derelict early-20th-century rail, munitions and aircraft factory beside Reggio Emilia's railway station, with about twenty halls and three office blocks now partly reclaimed by street art.
Seen in: Made in Italy
No water or mains power on site, paved road access for large vehicles
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Ex Stabilimento Elettrochimico di Papigno
Industrial & derelict
A 105,000 square-metre former calcium carbide and electrochemical works near Terni, built in 1901 and run until the mid-1980s, standing beside the Marmore Falls.
Water and mains power on site, road access on foot, not wheelchair accessible
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Ex Zuccherificio Eridania, Ceggia
Industrial & derelict
A disused sugar refinery in the countryside near Ceggia in the Veneto, first run as a distillery in 1936 and closed in 2001, with brick factory halls, storage buildings and water settling tanks.
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Fabbrica Borroni, Bollate
Industrial & derelict
An 1890 textile mill near Milan, family-run from 1925 to 2001, now an events space of three halls including one with cast-iron columns and another with 7.5-metre vaulted ceilings.
Water and mains power on site, paved road access
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Grande Miniera di Serbariu
Industrial & derelict
Former coal mine at Carbonia in Sardinia, its headframe, washery buildings and underground galleries preserved as a mining museum with period machinery and accessible tunnel sections.
Magazzino del Sale, Cervia
Industrial & derelict
A 1712 dockside salt warehouse in Cervia of about 4,000 square metres, once able to hold up to 100,000 quintals of salt loaded onto flat-bottomed boats via the town's canal port.
Water and mains power on site, road access for large vehicles and by boat
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Miniera di Raibl, Cave del Predil
Industrial & derelict
A former lead and zinc mine near Tarvisio with 120 kilometres of galleries, closed in 1990 and now a geo-mining park with a mining museum and an electric train tour through the tunnels.
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Miniera di Sale, Raffo
Industrial & derelict
One of Europe's largest rock-salt deposits in the hills near Petralia Soprana, with over 40 kilometres of tunnels reached 50 metres underground, mined industrially since 1972 and now partly a contemporary art museum.
Seen in: The End
Water and mains power on site, paved road access
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Miniera Montecatini, San Giovanni Rotondo
Industrial & derelict
A former bauxite mine in the Gargano hills near San Giovanni Rotondo, worked by the Montecatini company from 1937 to 1973, left as an industrial and quarrying landscape.
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Miniera Trabonella, Caltanissetta
Industrial & derelict
A former sulphur mine near Caltanissetta worked from around 1825 to 1950, one of Sicily's deepest at 270 metres, with surviving administration buildings, kilns and winding gear.
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Museo del Vetro di Piegaro
Industrial & derelict
A former nineteenth-century glass furnace in the hill town of Piegaro, converted into a museum that preserves the kilns and displays glassware made on site until the factory closed in 1968.
Real Fabbrica di San Leucio
Industrial & derelict
A royal silk-manufacturing complex built by the Bourbon court above Caserta, with weaving halls, workers' housing and machinery from its eighteenth-century silk mill, part of the Caserta Palace UNESCO site.
Transport and infrastructure in Italy 19
Stations, airports, ports, bridges, tunnels, metro lines and rolling stock, including disused stretches that can be closed off for a shoot. All 19 on their own page.
Aeroporto di Bolzano
Transport & infrastructure
South Tyrol's only airport with scheduled and charter flights, established in 1926 and modernised in the 1990s, with a runway just over 1,700 metres about six kilometres south of Bolzano.
Water and mains power on site, road access for large vehicles, off-road and on foot
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Comiso Airport
Transport & infrastructure
A regional airport in south-eastern Sicily built on a former NATO air base, with 1980s military hangars and runway infrastructure alongside its current civilian terminal.
Milano Centrale Railway Station
Transport & infrastructure
Monumental 1931 railway terminus in Milan with a vast steel-and-glass train shed, marble ticket halls and Art Deco and Assyrian-influenced decoration across several levels.
Porto Antico di Genova
Transport & infrastructure
Nineteenth-century harbour warehouses and docks in Genoa, redeveloped for Expo 1992 into a waterfront of piazzas, a marina, an aquarium and event spaces along the old quays.
Capacity: 1480 · The site lists 13 halls of varying capacity across the complex, 8,500 sqm gross of exhibition space in the Magazzini del Cotone modules, and a total...
Porto di Ancona
Transport & infrastructure
A natural harbour port in the Marche used since antiquity, today Italy's leading port for vehicle and passenger ferry traffic and among the busiest on the Adriatic for container freight.
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Porto di Brindisi
Transport & infrastructure
Brindisi's harbour beside the city's Roman-era terminal columns, in continuous use since antiquity and now handling ferry and commercial shipping.
Water and mains power on site, car access and on foot
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Porto di Cagliari
Transport & infrastructure
A multifunction commercial and passenger port in the Gulf of Angels at Cagliari, developed over centuries into today's terminal and still central to Sardinia's shipping trade.
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Porto di Gioia Tauro
Transport & infrastructure
Italy's largest container transshipment port on the Calabrian coast, with long quays, gantry cranes and stacked container yards handling international freight.
Porto di Napoli
Transport & infrastructure
A major container and passenger port on the Bay of Naples with shipyards, warehouses and the modernist Casa del Portuale building, among the city's most requested filming locations.
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Stazione di Porta Nuova, Torino
Transport & infrastructure
Turin's main railway station, opened in 1861 as the gateway to the new capital of a unified Italy, pairing a formal street facade with a wide iron and glass train shed.
Seen in: Così ridevano, Finale: Allegro, La meglio gioventù
Water and mains power on site, road access for large vehicles and by car
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Stazione di Porta Susa, Torino
Transport & infrastructure
A modern high speed rail hub in Turin with a 385 metre steel and glass concourse, built over a buried through line, used for contemporary station and transit scenes.
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Aeroporto Gianni Caproni, Trento
Transport & infrastructure
A small regional airport south of Trento in the Adige valley, handling private and tourist flights, with an aviation museum and a helicopter base on site.
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Aeroporto San Francesco d'Assisi, Perugia
Transport & infrastructure
Umbria's civil airport at Sant'Egidio between Perugia and Assisi, renovated in 2011 to a Gae Aulenti design of red concrete pavilions with green copper roofs and glazed views toward Assisi.
Water and mains power on site, wheelchair accessible, road and helicopter access
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Porto di Livorno
Transport & infrastructure
Central Italy's main seaport, with 11 kilometres of quays and 100 berths, including the historic Darsena Vecchia built under the Medici on Livorno's west bank.
Water and mains power on site, car access
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Porto di Taranto
Transport & infrastructure
A working commercial and industrial port on the Ionian coast in Apulia, among Italy's busiest for freight, with a separate marina in the old town offering berths and boat services.
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Porto di Termoli
Transport & infrastructure
A 45,000 square-metre Adriatic harbour in Termoli with a tourist marina on one mole and shipyards on the other, used by fishing boats, ferries to the Tremiti Islands and the coast guard.
Water and mains power on site, road access for large and off-road vehicles
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Porto Vecchio di Trieste
Transport & infrastructure
Disused free port in Trieste with about seventy hectares of 19th-century warehouses, rail sidings and quays between the city centre and the sea, now under partial redevelopment.
Stazione Marittima di Salerno
Transport & infrastructure
A Zaha Hadid-designed ferry and cruise terminal on Salerno's Molo Manfredi, opened in 2016 with an oyster-shaped shell reaching toward the sea, also used for public events.
Seen in: Mare Fuori, Vincenzo Malinconico, avvocato d'insuccesso
Water and mains power on site, road access for large vehicles
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Toledo Metro Station
Transport & infrastructure
Underground metro station in central Naples built around 40 metres deep, with a mosaic-lined vaulted concourse known as the Crater de Luz, part of the city's art-station network.
Theatres, arenas and venues in Italy 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 di Verona
Theatre, arena & venue
1st-century Roman amphitheatre in central Verona, its arena floor and stone tiers used since 1913 for outdoor opera performances every summer.
Seen in: Letters to Juliet (2010)
PalaFlorio
Theatre, arena & venue
An indoor arena in Bari used for basketball, concerts and trade events, with tiered seating around a large flat floor.
The venue has 3 meeting/conference rooms (up to 50 people each) plus exhibition areas, 4 bar stations and a control booth. On-site services include...
Piscina delle Rose
Theatre, arena & venue
A 1950s open-air lido in Rome's EUR district, with a large rectangular pool, sunbathing terraces and Rationalist-style changing pavilions.
San Siro Stadium (Stadio Giuseppe Meazza)
Theatre, arena & venue
Multi-tiered football stadium in Milan shared by AC Milan and Inter, with a distinctive spiral-ramp exterior and seating for over 75,000.
The stadium's event page states it has 40 hospitality rooms totalling 3,160 sqm, with a combined event capacity of 2,154 people (1,264 for seated...
Stadio Olimpico
Theatre, arena & venue
Rome's main stadium in the Foro Italico complex, with tiered seating for over 70,000 used for football, athletics, concerts and other large events.
Teatro alla Scala
Theatre, arena & venue
1778 opera house in central Milan with a gilded horseshoe auditorium, tiered boxes, a museum wing and a stage house used for opera, ballet and concerts.
Teatro di San Carlo, Napoli
Theatre, arena & venue
An 18th century royal opera house beside Naples' Palazzo Reale, seating around 1,400 across five tiers of boxes, still in regular use for opera, ballet and concerts.
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Teatro Massimo
Theatre, arena & venue
Largest opera house in Italy, in central Palermo, with a neoclassical facade, a horseshoe auditorium seating around 1,300 and backstage and rehearsal spaces.
Seen in: The Godfather Part III (1990)
Teatro Massimo Bellini, Catania
Theatre, arena & venue
An 1890 opera house in Catania with an eclectic facade and a horseshoe auditorium of four tiers of boxes seating around 2,000, still used for opera and concerts.
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Teatro Petruzzelli
Theatre, arena & venue
Bari's late nineteenth-century opera house, one of Italy's largest theatres, rebuilt after a 1991 fire with its horseshoe auditorium and gilded boxes restored.
Teatro Verdi, Pisa
Theatre, arena & venue
A 19th century theatre in central Pisa with a neoclassical facade and portico, built 1865 to 1867, with one of the largest stages in Italy at 26 by 32 metres.
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Cinema Fulgor, Rimini
Theatre, arena & venue
A historic single screen cinema inside a rebuilt 18th century palazzo in central Rimini, associated with Federico Fellini's childhood and evoked in his films, restored in 2018 with sets by Dante Ferretti.
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Cineteca di Bologna (Cinema Lumiere)
Theatre, arena & venue
A film archive and cinema complex in Bologna's former Manifattura delle Arti tobacco factory, with two screening theatres and a laboratory that restores classic films.
Salone degli Incanti, Trieste
Theatre, arena & venue
Trieste's former central fish market of 1913, an eclectic-style hall shaped like a basilica on the waterfront, now used as an exhibition and events space.
Seen in: The Godfather Part II, The Invisible Boy
Water and mains power on site, paved road access
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Offices, schools and public buildings in Italy 13
Offices, town halls, courtrooms, libraries, universities and schools: the interiors most contemporary drama actually needs. All 13 on their own page.
Bocconi University
Office, school & public building
Milan business university campus that includes the Grafton Architects-designed SDA building, with lecture halls, a library, courtyards and contemporary architecture around Via Sarfatti.
Città della Scienza
Office, school & public building
Science museum and congress centre on the former Bagnoli industrial waterfront in Naples, with interactive exhibition halls, an auditorium and modular event spaces for hire.
Domus Mercatorum, Verona
Office, school & public building
A medieval merchants' guild hall on Piazza Erbe in Verona, built under the Scaligeri lords with a brick portico, mullioned windows and Ghibelline battlements.
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Mole Antonelliana - National Cinema Museum
Office, school & public building
Nineteenth-century domed landmark in Turin housing the National Cinema Museum, with a spiral ramp, a central exhibition hall beneath the dome and a glass panoramic lift to the top.
Universita degli Studi Mediterranea, Reggio Calabria
Office, school & public building
Calabria's first university, founded in 1968, with a hillside 1990s campus at Feo di Vito focused on architecture, engineering and agricultural sciences.
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Aula Magna, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano
Office, school & public building
The main auditorium of the Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, a modern lecture hall with simultaneous interpretation booths, full AV equipment and wifi.
Capacity: 480 · Water and mains power on site, paved road access for large vehicles
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Biblioteca Regionale Bruno Salvadori, Aosta
Office, school & public building
A 1996 glass-fronted regional library in Aosta built against a 17th-century noble residence and the ruins of a medieval charity hospice, over a Roman-era gate.
Water and mains power on site, road access for large vehicles
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Biblioteca Universitaria Alessandrina, Roma
Office, school & public building
A university library founded in 1667, moved in 1935 to Rome's Citta Universitaria campus behind the rectorate, now run by the Italian ministry of culture.
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Caserma Villarey, Ancona
Office, school & public building
An 1865-67 military barracks in Ancona built to hold over 1,200 soldiers, now home to the economics faculty of the Marche Polytechnic University.
Water and mains power on site, road access for large vehicles and on foot
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Palazzo dei Congressi, EUR
Office, school & public building
Rationalist congress hall in Rome's EUR district, built for a cancelled 1942 world's fair, with a marble facade, a colonnaded portico and a large domed hall, managed by EUR SpA.
Seen in: L'Eclisse (1962), La Grande Bellezza (2013)
Capacity: 5000 · The venue's own page states: 30,000 sqm total surface, Salone della Cultura 1,450 sqm with 27 m ceiling height, Auditorium Capitalis 792 seats,...
Scuola Grande di San Giovanni Evangelista, Venezia
Office, school & public building
A 13th century confraternity building in Venice with a Gothic hall, a Renaissance staircase by Mauro Codussi and a baroque chapter hall, now run as a museum and event venue.
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Universita degli Studi di Napoli Federico II
Office, school & public building
The neo-baroque main building of one of the world's oldest universities on Corso Umberto I in Naples, built 1897 to 1908 with a grand staircase and a former Jesuit cloister behind it.
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Università della Calabria, Arcavacata
Office, school & public building
A 1968 university campus on over 200 hectares of hillside at Rende, designed by Vittorio Gregotti around a 2-kilometre elevated walkway spanning the Crati valley.
Water and mains power on site, road access for large vehicles
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Film studios and backlots in Italy 12
Sound stages, backlots, water tanks and virtual production volumes you can hire, with the crew base and power that go with them. All 12 on their own page.
Cinecittà
Studio & backlot
Historic Rome studio complex founded in 1937, with sound stages including the vast Teatro 5 and permanent backlot sets such as ancient Rome.
Seen in: Ben-Hur (1959), La Dolce Vita (1960), Rome (2005-2007, HBO/BBC)
22 soundstages (24 planned) from 380 to 3,500 m2, the largest Stage 22 (3,500 m2) and Stage 5 (2,880 m2), each with dressing rooms, offices, makeup...
Y-40 The Deep Joy
Studio & backlot
An underwater filming tank inside the Hotel Terme Millepini in Montegrotto Terme, with thermal water down to 42 metres, used for underwater photo and video shoots and advertising campaigns.
Pool of 21 m x 18 m holding 4,300 cubic metres of thermal water at 32-34 degrees C. Platforms at -1.3 m (18 x 5 m), -5 m, -6 m and -8 m (5 x 4 m...
10 Watt Location
Studio & backlot
A multi-studio complex in Milan's Navigli district with several naturally lit photo and video studios for advertising and events, listed by Lombardy's film commission since 2004.
Seen in: Trivago, Kinley, Banca Mediolanum
Six spaces with published specifications: Spazio Light 200 mq, ceiling up to 6.10 m, 30 kW three-phase and single-phase power; Spazio Color 245 mq...
Arca Studios
Studio & backlot
A production facility in the Docks Dora industrial complex in Turin, with two soundproofed recording studios and around 400 square metres of flexible set and event space for small and medium productions.
Two soundproofed studios for dubbing, sound recording and Foley; two multi-purpose halls (Sala Rossa and Sala Bianca); about 400 sqm of rentable space...
Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia - Sicilia
Studio & backlot
The Sicilian branch of Italy's national film school, housed in the Cantieri Culturali alla Zisa cultural complex in Palermo, with a 250 square metre sound stage and audio and color grading suites.
Capacity: 100 · Housed in pavilion 6 of the Cantieri culturali alla Zisa in Palermo, with 1,800 square metres of covered space: an events area with a 100-seat...
Cineporto dell'Emilia-Romagna
Studio & backlot
A privately built production studio near Modena with a column free sound stage, offices and post-production suites, designed for film, advertising and photo shoots with easy truck access.
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Cineporto di Bari
Studio & backlot
A production support centre for Apulia Film Commission inside the Fiera del Levante exhibition grounds in Bari, with production offices, casting and costume facilities and a small in-house cinema.
About 1,200 sqm total: equipped production offices, casting rooms, hair and make-up rooms, costume storage, a set-design workshop, and an HD screening...
Distretto Campano dell'Audiovisivo
Studio & backlot
A production hub for Film Commission Regione Campania in a former NATO Southern Europe base at Bagnoli, Naples, with offices, workshops and a screening and color grading room across 10,000 square metres.
10,000 sqm across 4 levels in the former San Laise Park education/NATO complex: casting rooms, wardrobe/props/set-decoration workrooms and storerooms,...
Manifatture Digitali Cinema - MDC Prato
Studio & backlot
A production support centre run by Toscana Film Commission in Prato, offering infrastructure for audiovisual productions alongside a tailoring workshop and a theatre nearby in the same district.
Capacity: 90 · Cineporto with three furnished temporary production offices with fast internet, a casting room with waiting area, a make-up and hairdressing room and...
On Air Milano
Studio & backlot
A virtual production studio in Milan built around an LED-wall stage for commercials and television, running since 1991 with in-house post-production alongside the shooting stage.
Seen in: Zero, 23, Grimaldi Lines, UPower Lifestyle
An LED-wall virtual production stage plus 12 post-production workstations on site.
Teatro Tre
Studio & backlot
A production studio in Milan offering sound-stage space for advertising, fashion and television shoots alongside its own set-design, scenography and costume workshops, operating since 1984.
Seen in: Lavazza, Prada, Maserati, Vodafone
Three stages: Teatro Grande 646,35 mq, Teatro Medio 240,75 mq and Teatro Piccolo 110 mq, with floor plans published as PDF and DWG. On site: canteen,...
Videoporto Genova
Studio & backlot
A production support centre run by Genova-Liguria Film Commission inside Villa Durazzo Bombrini in Cornigliano, Genoa, with a sound stage, guest accommodation and workshop space for visiting productions.
Sound stage with a perimeter cyclorama rail at 5 m, fixed and mobile overhead rails with pantographs for lighting at 7 m, a green screen limbo 5 m...
Bars, restaurants and shops in Italy 8
Cafes, bars, restaurants, markets, shops and shopping streets, the everyday interiors a schedule eats through quickly. All 8 on their own page.
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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Hospitals, prisons and institutions in Italy 8
Working and disused hospitals, clinics, prisons, barracks and asylums: corridors, wards and cells that are close to impossible to fake convincingly. All 8 on their own page.
Ex Carcere Le Nuove, Torino
Hospital, prison & institution
A former Turin prison built from 1857 for solitary confinement, used to hold political prisoners under fascism and the Nazi occupation, closed in the 1980s and now housing court offices, a museum and an air raid bunker.
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Carcere Borbonico di Santo Stefano
Hospital, prison & institution
A disused 1795 island prison off Ventotene built on a Panopticon plan, used to hold political prisoners into the 20th century and closed in 1965, now inside a state nature reserve.
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Carcere di Accadia
Hospital, prison & institution
A prison building completed in 1993 in the Apulian hill town of Accadia with capacity for 90 inmates, never used as a jail and now owned by the municipality as a storage depot.
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Carcere di Volturara Appula
Hospital, prison & institution
A former small-town prison building in the hill village of Volturara Appula, in the Daunian Mountains, listed in Italy's national locations database as a disused institutional building.
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Ex Carcere di Trento
Hospital, prison & institution
A late-19th-century Habsburg-era prison in Trento built from local red stone, with its original vestibule entrance and balustraded balcony intact, closed as a jail since 2010.
No water or mains power on site, paved road access for large vehicles
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Ex Ospedale Carlo Forlanini, Roma
Hospital, prison & institution
A closed 1930s tuberculosis sanatorium in Rome, built as a self-contained horseshoe-shaped campus with wards, laboratories, a theatre and a cinema, vacated in 2015.
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Ex Ospedale Psichiatrico dell'Osservanza, Imola
Hospital, prison & institution
A 19th-century psychiatric hospital near Imola covering about 12 hectares of symmetrical two-storey pavilions and gardens, closed under Italy's 1978 Basaglia law and vacant since 1996.
Water and mains power on site, paved road access for large vehicles
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Ospedale Molinette, Torino
Hospital, prison & institution
A large active university hospital in Turin opened in 1935, built as a self-contained health campus of dozens of pavilions linked by covered walkways and underground tunnels.
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Hotels and interiors in Italy 5
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.
Belmond Hotel Cipriani
Hotel & interiors
Hotel on Giudecca island in Venice with gardens, an outdoor pool and lagoon-facing rooms in a converted 16th-century building, reached from Saint Mark's Square by private launch.
Event venues accommodate 10 to 300 people. The hotel has 55 rooms, 20 suites and 4 signature suites available for guests during events.
Grand Hotel et de Milan
Hotel & interiors
1863 hotel in central Milan near La Scala, with period salons, an internal courtyard and rooms including the suite where composer Giuseppe Verdi lived and died.
Grand Hotel Rimini
Hotel & interiors
A Belle Epoque seafront hotel from 1908 with formal gardens, a domed reception hall and period guest rooms facing the Adriatic, long associated with Rimini's own Federico Fellini.
Grand Hotel Villa Serbelloni
Hotel & interiors
Nineteenth-century lakeside hotel on the Bellagio promontory overlooking Lake Como, with period public rooms, terraced gardens and views over both branches of the lake.
Hotel Stammer, Chiusa
Hotel & interiors
An early 20th century mountain hotel in the Val di Funes near Chiusa in South Tyrol, extended through the mid-century, now standing empty with period interiors and alpine surroundings.
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Modern architecture in Italy 5
Contemporary buildings with a strong shape: museums, concert halls, campuses, glass towers and brutalist concrete. Modern architecture across Europe.
Corviale
Modern architecture
A single kilometre-long social housing block on Rome's southwest edge, built in 1972 to a rationalist design with a repeating concrete facade and long open access corridors.
Seen in: Christian, Lovely Boy, Siccità, The Iris Affair
Water and mains power on site, paved road access for large vehicles, cable-car access
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Lingotto Rooftop Track and Pinacoteca Agnelli
Modern architecture
Former Fiat car factory in Turin with a rooftop test track encircling the building, now containing exhibition halls, a hotel and the Pinacoteca Agnelli art gallery beneath a glass pavilion.
Seen in: The Italian Job (1969)
MAXXI - National Museum of 21st Century Arts
Modern architecture
Zaha Hadid's 2010 museum building in Rome, built on the site of a former army barracks, with curving concrete galleries, a black steel staircase and large open exhibition halls.
MUSE - Science Museum of Trento
Modern architecture
Renzo Piano's 2013 science museum in Trento, a stepped glass and steel structure across several floors of exhibition space, part of the redeveloped Le Albere riverside district.
Quartiere EUR
Modern architecture
A 1930s planned district built for a cancelled world's fair, laid out in wide rationalist boulevards around the square-arched Palazzo della Civiltà Italiana and an artificial lake.
Seen in: Boccaccio '70, Christian, Diavoli, Era ora
Water and mains power on site, accessible by large vehicles, by car and on foot
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Historic towns and streets in Italy 5
Old towns, squares and streets that can double for a period without dressing out a modern skyline. Historic towns and streets across Europe.
Ortigia
Historic town & street
Historic island core of Syracuse in Sicily, with a baroque cathedral built into the columns of a Greek temple, narrow lanes, a waterfront promenade and a Norman castle at its tip.
Porticoes of Bologna
Historic town & street
Covered walkways lining central Bologna's streets, including the roughly 3.8 km arcade climbing to the Sanctuary of San Luca, a UNESCO World Heritage arrangement of porticoes.
Sassi di Matera
Historic town & street
Ancient cave-dwelling districts carved into a limestone ravine, frequently standing in for biblical-era Jerusalem.
Seen in: The Passion of the Christ (2004), Wonder Woman (2017), No Time to Die (2021)
Tropea
Historic town & street
Clifftop town on Calabria's Tyrrhenian coast, with a historic centre of stone lanes and balconies overlooking the beach and the offshore Santa Maria dell'Isola sanctuary.
Quartiere Garbatella
Historic town & street
A 1920s garden-city district of Rome built around communal courtyards, with low three-storey villini in varied styles rather than uniform apartment blocks.
Seen in: Caro Diario, Esterno Notte, Gli anni più belli, I Cesaroni
Water and mains power on site, wheelchair accessible, paved road access for large vehicles
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Houses and apartments in Italy 4
Private houses, villas, apartments and period interiors available for filming, from workers' housing to architect-designed homes. Houses and apartments across Europe.
Villa Necchi Campiglio
House & apartment
1930s rationalist villa in central Milan designed by Piero Portaluppi, with period interiors, a garden, swimming pool and tennis court, run as a house museum by FAI.
Seen in: I Am Love (2009)
The venue's own page lists: Sale Pomara Scibetta (basement), 3 adjoining multipurpose rooms totalling 200 sqm; Sala da Pranzo, 43 sqm on the piano...
Masseria Marinella
House & apartment
A working fortified farmhouse estate on the plateau outside Altamura, with whitewashed courtyard buildings, olive groves and grazing land typical of the Murgia countryside.
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Masseria Tagliente, Martina Franca
House & apartment
A mid-19th century fortified farmhouse estate in the Murge hills near Martina Franca, with a manor house, chapel and around twenty trulli, still run as a working agricultural and livestock estate.
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Quartiere Falchera, Torino
House & apartment
A postwar workers' housing district on Turin's northern edge, designed by architect Giovanni Astengo and built 1952-54 as a self-contained neighbourhood of low apartment blocks around courtyards.
Water and mains power on site, paved road access for large vehicles
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Castles and estates in Italy 2
Castles, fortresses, manor houses and country estates, usually with grounds, outbuildings and period interiors in one place. Castles and estates across Europe.
Forte di Bard
Castle & estate
A nineteenth-century Savoy fortress rebuilt on a rock outcrop above the village of Bard, now housing museum galleries and event spaces within its stone ramparts over the Dora Baltea valley.
Villa del Balbianello
Castle & estate
Eighteenth-century villa on a wooded promontory of Lake Como with terraced gardens and open lake panoramas, now a FAI heritage property.
Seen in: Star Wars: Episode II Attack of the Clones (2002), Casino Royale (2006)
Capacity: 130 · The venue's own page gives room-by-room figures: La Loggia Durini 60 sqm (ceremony 80-100 people, max 60 seated), Terrazzo a Lago 240 sqm (dinners up...
Mountains and wilderness in Italy 1
Mountains, moors, volcanic ground, glaciers and empty terrain, where access and weather decide the schedule. Mountains and wilderness across Europe.
Campo Imperatore, Gran Sasso
Mountains & wilderness
High plateau beneath the Gran Sasso massif in Abruzzo, known locally as Italy's Little Tibet, with wide alpine grassland and a former ski hotel where Mussolini was briefly held in 1943.
Villages and countryside in Italy 1
Villages, farmland, meadows and rural roads: open country with somewhere to put a unit base. Villages and countryside across Europe.
Craco
Village & countryside
Abandoned hilltop town in Basilicata, evacuated after a 1963 landslide, with medieval stone houses, a tower and a church left standing on the exposed ridge.
Seen in: The Passion of the Christ (2004), Quantum of Solace (2008), Wonder Woman (2017)