Film and TV locations in Slovenia
55 places to shoot in Slovenia: 9 industrial and derelict locations, 7 offices, schools and public buildings, 5 theatres, arenas and venues and 34 more. 44 have a photo and 2 carry practical details the location publishes itself. Search and put three side by side in the locations search.
What Slovenia pays back
Slovenia runs the Cash rebate for investment in audiovisual production, worth Up to 25% 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 8 companies we list in Slovenia.
Regions
- Ljubljana 23
- Gorenjska 8
- Obalno-kraska 6
- Savinjska 5
- Goriska 3
- Podravska 3
And single locations in 5 more regions, all of them in the list below.
Industrial and derelict locations in Slovenia 9
Factories, warehouses, power stations, mines, depots and abandoned buildings: raw space, hard surfaces and the kind of decay that is impossible to build. All 9 on their own page.
Anthony's Shaft, Idrija Mercury Mine
Industrial & derelict
Mine entrance in use since 1500 at Idrija, with a stone gatehouse, timbered galleries, water channels and hand cut drifts on a guided underground route.
Cukrarna
Industrial & derelict
Nineteenth century sugar refinery on the Ljubljanica rebuilt as a gallery, keeping the long brick shell around a tall open hall crossed by steel walkways and bridges.
Sostanj Thermal Power Plant
Industrial & derelict
Working lignite power station in the Salek valley with cooling towers, a chimney of 350 metres, coal handling yards and large boiler and turbine halls.
Stara Sava Ironworks Quarter, Jesenice
Industrial & derelict
Preserved ironworking quarter at Jesenice with a blast furnace chimney, the Kasarna workers block, a forge and the Ruard manor that houses the Upper Sava Valley Museum.
Steklarna Hrastnik Glassworks
Industrial & derelict
Glass factory working in the Zasavje coal valley since 1860, with furnace halls, hot end production lines, moulding shops and a works site pressed against wooded slopes.
Underground of Peca, Mezica Mine
Industrial & derelict
Disused lead and zinc mine inside Mount Peca with kilometres of rail served tunnels, ore chambers and flooded sections reached by mine train, bicycle or kayak.
Center Rog
Industrial & derelict
Former Rog bicycle factory beside Trubarjeva cesta, reopened in 2024 as a public production centre that keeps the concrete frame and adds workshops, studios and a yard.
Coal Mining Museum of Slovenia
Industrial & derelict
Former Skale pit at Velenje with a headframe, miners changing rooms, a cage descent to 160 metres and long galleries fitted with cutting machines and an underground railway.
Sitarjevec Mine, Litija
Industrial & derelict
Former lead, zinc and barite mine above Litija, with a narrow main adit, timbered side galleries and coloured limonite formations growing on the tunnel walls.
Offices, schools and public buildings in Slovenia 7
Offices, town halls, courtrooms, libraries, universities and schools: the interiors most contemporary drama actually needs. Offices, schools and public buildings across Europe.
Kromberk Castle, Goriska Museum
Office, school & public building
Seventeenth century square castle above Nova Gorica with corner towers, an arcaded courtyard and painted rooms, in use as the regional museum and its picture galleries.
Ljubljana Town Hall
Office, school & public building
Civic hall on Mestni trg rebuilt in Venetian Baroque style, with an arcaded inner courtyard, a stone staircase, a council chamber and a clock tower over the street.
Museum of Contemporary History, Cekin Mansion
Office, school & public building
Baroque mansion in Tivoli Park with a symmetrical front, stucco ceilings and period rooms, in use as the national museum of twentieth century history.
National and University Library of Slovenia
Office, school & public building
Library completed by Joze Plecnik in 1941, with a rough stone and brick facade, a dark marble entrance staircase and a top lit reading room lined in wood.
Slovene Ethnographic Museum
Office, school & public building
Museum in the Metelkova barracks quarter combining a restored nineteenth century block with a glazed new wing, holding open depots and large neutral exhibition floors.
Technical Museum of Slovenia, Bistra
Office, school & public building
Former Carthusian monastery at Bistra holding transport, forestry and printing collections, with vaulted halls, a water powered sawmill and courtyards beside the mill stream.
University of Ljubljana Main Building
Office, school & public building
Former provincial parliament of Carniola on Kongresni trg, now the university rectorate, with a stone staircase, a ceremonial hall and panelled offices.
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Theatres, arenas and venues in Slovenia 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.
Arena Stozice
Theatre, arena & venue
Indoor arena of 2010 sunk into a former landfill, with a shallow domed roof, tiered seating for basketball and concerts and a football stadium in the same park.
Slovene National Opera and Ballet Theatre Ljubljana
Theatre, arena & venue
Neo-Renaissance opera house of 1892 with a horseshoe auditorium, tiered boxes and a painted ceiling, joined to a modern backstage block with rehearsal rooms.
Slovene National Theatre Maribor
Theatre, arena & venue
Theatre complex in central Maribor joining a nineteenth century auditorium to a glazed 1990s extension, holding drama, opera and ballet stages with workshops behind.
Cankarjev dom
Theatre, arena & venue
National congress and culture centre under Republic Square, with a large main hall, several smaller halls, wide marble foyers and an underground car park.
Krizanke Summer Theatre
Theatre, arena & venue
Former Teutonic Order monastery reworked by Plecnik into an open air theatre, with an arcaded courtyard, cloister galleries and a movable roof over the stage.
Transport and infrastructure in Slovenia 5
Stations, airports, ports, bridges, tunnels, metro lines and rolling stock, including disused stretches that can be closed off for a shoot. Transport and infrastructure across Europe.
Ljubljana Railway Station
Transport & infrastructure
Main station of the Slovenian network north of the old town, with a long low concourse building, through platforms under canopies and the bus station on the same square.
Maribor Edvard Rusjan Airport
Transport & infrastructure
Quiet regional airport at Orehova vas with a runway of about 2,500 metres, a small terminal, hangars and wide apron space used for cargo, training and general aviation.
Port of Koper
Transport & infrastructure
Slovenia's cargo port on the Bay of Koper, with container, car and bulk terminals, gantry cranes, rail sidings, warehouses and open quays.
Slovenian Railway Museum
Transport & infrastructure
Working roundhouse at Parmova ulica with a locomotive turntable, halls of preserved steam engines and carriages, and exhibition buildings on signalling and track.
Ljubljana Joze Pucnik Airport
Transport & infrastructure
Slovenia's main airport at Brnik, with a 1960s modernist terminal beside a newer passenger building, open aprons, a cargo area and one runway in flat farmland.
Hotels and interiors in Slovenia 4
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.
Grand Hotel Union
Hotel & interiors
Secession hotel of 1905 on Miklosiceva cesta, with a domed corner, a mirrored Grand Hall used for balls and congresses and long period corridors and staircases.
Kempinski Palace Portoroz
Hotel & interiors
Restored 1910 seaside palace hotel above Portoroz bay, with a marble lobby, a ballroom, a colonnaded garden terrace and a modern wing holding pools and a spa.
Rimske Terme
Hotel & interiors
Nineteenth century spa resort in a wooded valley near Lasko, with historic bath houses, a colonnaded hall, thermal pools and a park of villas along the valley road.
Vila Bled
Hotel & interiors
Former Yugoslav state residence on the shore of Lake Bled, with 1950s interiors, a mural covered reception hall, wide terraces and a private park down to a boathouse.
Houses and apartments in Slovenia 3
Private houses, villas, apartments and period interiors available for filming, from workers' housing to architect-designed homes. Houses and apartments across Europe.
Brdo Estate
House & apartment
State protocol estate near Kranj with a Renaissance manor, halls used for state visits, a hotel, a golf course, lakes and several hundred hectares of managed parkland.
Plecnik House
House & apartment
The architect Joze Plecnik's own house in Trnovo, left as he used it, with a round glazed extension, a study, a workshop and a walled garden of columns and planting.
Rogatec Open-Air Museum
House & apartment
Reconstructed Stajerska village of thatched farmhouses, granaries, a smithy, a toll house and beehives, laid out around farmyards with no modern buildings in shot.
Castles and estates in Slovenia 3
Castles, fortresses, manor houses and country estates, usually with grounds, outbuildings and period interiors in one place. Castles and estates across Europe.
Celje Old Castle
Castle & estate
Largest castle ruin in Slovenia on a ridge above Celje, with curtain walls, a keep known as Friderikov stolp, open courtyards and views over the Savinja valley.
Lipica Stud Farm
Castle & estate
Stud farm founded in 1580 on the Karst plateau, with white stable ranges, a riding hall, a chapel, avenues of oaks and open pasture grazed by Lipizzaner horses.
Predjama Castle
Castle & estate
Castle built into a cave mouth in a 123 metre cliff, with a vertical front of windows, small vaulted rooms, a drawbridge and passages into the rock behind.
Hospitals, prisons and institutions in Slovenia 3
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.
Hostel Celica
Hospital, prison & institution
Austro-Hungarian military prison in the Metelkova barracks turned into a hostel, where twenty cells keep barred doors and thick walls along vaulted corridors.
Metelkova Mesto
Hospital, prison & institution
Former Yugoslav army barracks in central Ljubljana, squatted since 1993 as an autonomous cultural centre with painted facades, small clubs, studios and a sculpture yard.
Museum of Hostages, Begunje
Hospital, prison & institution
Wing of the Katzenstein mansion at Begunje used as a Gestapo prison from 1941 to 1945, with preserved cells, prisoner inscriptions on the plaster and a memorial park behind.
Historic towns and streets in Slovenia 3
Old towns, squares and streets that can double for a period without dressing out a modern skyline. Historic towns and streets across Europe.
Ptuj Old Town
Historic town & street
Oldest town in Slovenia, with a Roman and medieval street plan, a monastery, a city tower and low painted houses climbing from the Drava to the castle hill.
Skofja Loka Old Town
Historic town & street
Walled medieval town square with pastel merchant houses, a plague column, a stone bridge over the Selscica and the bishops castle on the slope above.
Tartini Square, Piran
Historic town & street
Oval paved square on the site of the filled inner harbour of Piran, ringed by Venetian and neoclassical fronts, with narrow lanes running to the sea walls.
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Film studios and backlots in Slovenia 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.
RTV Slovenija Television Centre
Studio & backlot
Headquarters of the national public broadcaster on Kolodvorska ulica, holding multi camera television studios, control rooms, radio recording rooms and scenery workshops.
Studio 303
Studio & backlot
Shared production space at Cesta 24. junija in the Crnuce district, built as one open multi purpose room with an infinity wall for video, photo and audio work by small crews.
Infinity wall shooting set, sound design and voice recording room, video editing and colour grading, camera and lighting rental.
Viba Film Studio
Studio & backlot
State run national film base in the Stegne industrial zone of Ljubljana, with two sound stages of about 665 and 476 square metres plus set building, wardrobe and prop departments.
Two stages of 665 m2 and 476 m2, set construction and paint shops, wardrobe and prop stores, four audio suites, video mixing room, 45 seat screening...
Forests and lakes in Slovenia 2
Woodland, forests, lakes and rivers, with the access tracks and permits that shooting in them needs. Forests and lakes across Europe.
Lake Bled
Forest & lake
Glacial lake with a wooded island and church, a castle on a cliff above the north shore, a lakeside promenade, rowing course and the Julian Alps behind.
Lake Bohinj
Forest & lake
Alpine lake inside Triglav National Park, with a stone bridge and church at Ribcev Laz, forested shores, a gravel beach and mountain walls closing the valley.
Bars, restaurants and shops in Slovenia 2
Cafes, bars, restaurants, markets, shops and shopping streets, the everyday interiors a schedule eats through quickly. Bars, restaurants and shops across Europe.
Ljubljana Central Market
Bar, restaurant & shop
Plecnik's riverside market colonnade between the Triple Bridge and the Dragon Bridge, with open stalls on Pogacarjev trg, a covered arcade and a fish market below.
Neboticnik
Bar, restaurant & shop
Thirteen storey tower of 1933 with a spiral staircase, a period lift lobby and a top floor cafe and open terrace looking across the rooftops of central Ljubljana.
Mountains and wilderness in Slovenia 2
Mountains, moors, volcanic ground, glaciers and empty terrain, where access and weather decide the schedule. Mountains and wilderness across Europe.
Postojna Cave
Mountains & wilderness
Karst cave system with more than twenty kilometres of passages, an electric cave railway, large chambers with stalactite growth and a concert hall sized hall.
Skocjan Caves
Mountains & wilderness
UNESCO listed cave park where the Reka river runs through a canyon up to 140 metres high, crossed by a footbridge, with collapse dolines and karst villages above.
Cities and skylines in Slovenia 2
Skylines, rooftops, viewpoints and city panoramas for establishing shots. Cities and skylines across Europe.
Triple Bridge and Presernov trg
City & skyline
Plecnik's three part river crossing joining Presernov trg to the old town, with balustrades, stairs down to the embankment and the pink Franciscan church behind.
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Titov trg, Velenje
City & skyline
Planned 1950s town centre built for the coal basin, with a wide axial square, arcaded blocks, a modernist cultural centre and a large statue of Tito.
Coast and beaches in Slovenia 1
Beaches, cliffs, harbours and coastline, including stretches that can be closed off in the off season. Coast and beaches across Europe.
Secovlje Salina Nature Park
Coast & beach
Working salt pans at the Croatian border, with a grid of shallow basins, earth embankments, wooden sluices, salt workers houses and wide flat horizons.
Villages and countryside in Slovenia 1
Villages, farmland, meadows and rural roads: open country with somewhere to put a unit base. Villages and countryside across Europe.
Soca Valley at Bovec
Village & countryside
Upper Soca valley around Bovec, with a turquoise river in gravel beds and gorges, hay meadows, scattered stone villages and the Julian Alps on both sides.
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