Hospitals, prisons and institutions to film in
150 of them in 29 European countries, 62 with a photo and 32 with practical details the location publishes itself. Search and put three side by side in the locations search.
Working and disused hospitals, clinics, prisons, barracks and asylums: corridors, wards and cells that are close to impossible to fake convincingly.
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- Germany 24
- France 15
- Spain 12
- Czech Republic 10
- Poland 10
- United Kingdom 10
- Italy 8
- Ireland 6
- Romania 5
- Austria 4
- Hungary 4
- Lithuania 4
- Netherlands 4
- Serbia 4
- Bulgaria 3
- Denmark 3
- Latvia 3
- Slovenia 3
- Switzerland 3
- Belgium 2
- Estonia 2
- Luxembourg 2
- Malta 2
- Slovakia 2
- Finland 1
- Greece 1
- Norway 1
- Portugal 1
- Sweden 1
Hospitals, prisons and institutions in Germany 24
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Abtei Brauweiler
Hospital, prison & institution
Former Benedictine abbey near Pulheim later used as a workhouse and detention site, with cell wings, plain institutional corridors, a Romanesque church and courtyards.
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Alte Feuerwache Mannheim
Hospital, prison & institution
A disused early-20th-century fire station converted into a cultural centre, keeping its engine hall, brick facade and yard, now hired for concerts and events.
Berlin-Hohenschönhausen Memorial
Hospital, prison & institution
Former Stasi remand prison in Lichtenberg with preserved interrogation rooms, cells and a prisoner transport van, run as a memorial site open for research and filming about East Germany.
Flandernbunker
Hospital, prison & institution
Wartime air raid bunker at the Kiel fjord kept as a memorial and cultural site, with bare concrete stairwells, narrow rooms on several floors and a roof terrace.
Justizpalast Munich
Hospital, prison & institution
A neo-baroque courthouse from 1897 housing Munich's higher regional court, with a domed atrium, marble stairways and panelled courtrooms.
Kammergericht Berlin
Hospital, prison & institution
Berlin's highest court, a Wilhelmine-era courthouse with a domed entrance hall, marble staircases and panelled courtrooms.
Memorium Nuremberg Trials
Hospital, prison & institution
The Nuremberg Palace of Justice, still a working courthouse, whose historic Courtroom 600 hosted the postwar Nuremberg trials and is now also a memorial museum.
Seen in: Nuremberg trials (historical)
Oberlandesgericht Hamm
Hospital, prison & institution
Higher regional court in Hamm with courtrooms, judges' corridors, a law library and formal entrance halls, listed as a location by the Film Commission NRW.
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Château d'If
Hospital, prison & institution
16th-century island fortress off Marseille used as a state prison into the 19th century, the setting of The Count of Monte Cristo and a location in The French Connection.
Seen in: The French Connection (1971)
Capacity: 500 · 1,547 sqm of castle interior with several small rooms, 600 sqm of terraces, and a 1,700 sqm parade ground. The castle interior and terraces each hold...
Fort de Mutzig
Hospital, prison & institution
German fortress begun in 1893 and spread over 254 hectares west of Strasbourg, with armoured turrets, concrete galleries, barrack rooms, a machine hall and an underground infirmary.
Hôpital Bicêtre
Hospital, prison & institution
Large hospital complex south of Paris with historic pavilions and a tall water reservoir building, listed by AP-HP among the sites it regularly opens to film crews.
Hôpital Maritime de Berck
Hospital, prison & institution
Seafront AP-HP hospital in Berck-sur-Mer built as a 19th-century marine sanatorium, named on the AP-HP's list of hospitals that regularly welcome film shoots.
Hôpital Raymond-Poincaré
Hospital, prison & institution
Rehabilitation hospital in Garches with early 20th-century pavilion wards and gardens, one of the AP-HP sites named as regularly opened for commercial filming.
Hopital Saint-Cyr
Hospital, prison & institution
A 19th century hospital in central Villeneuve-sur-Lot, in use until 2015, with a neoclassical arcaded facade, a painted chapel, a former apothecary and wards over three floors around a wooded park.
Large lorry-accessible car park, water and electricity available on site
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Hôpital Saint-Louis
Hospital, prison & institution
Working Paris hospital built around an early 17th-century brick and stone quadrilateral courtyard, one of the AP-HP sites named as regularly hosting commercial filming.
Palais de justice de Nantes
Hospital, prison & institution
Courthouse of 2000 by Jean Nouvel on the Loire quay, a black steel box with a tall glazed hall, red lined courtrooms and long corridors.
Seen in: La Fille au bracelet (2019)
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Biblioteca de Catalunya (former Hospital de la Santa Creu)
Hospital, prison & institution
Fifteenth century hospital wards in the Raval, now the national library: long Gothic naves with pointed stone arches, reading rooms, a courtyard and a chapel.
Citadel of Pamplona
Hospital, prison & institution
Sixteenth century star shaped military citadel with bastions, moats, a powder magazine, an arsenal and barracks buildings, now a public park and exhibition space.
Fortalesa de la Mola
Hospital, prison & institution
Nineteenth century Isabel II fortress guarding the mouth of Mahon harbour, with gun galleries, tunnels, barrack blocks, a military prison and open glacis above the sea.
Hospital 12 de Octubre
Hospital, prison & institution
Large public hospital complex opened in 1973 in Usera, with a 15-storey red brick inpatient tower, a semicircular maternity building and a newer glass outpatient block around wide gardens and its own helipad.
Hospital de Sant Pau
Hospital, prison & institution
A former working hospital in Barcelona built as a campus of Art Nouveau pavilions with domes, mosaics and underground connecting tunnels, now a monument and event venue.
Capacity: 300 · Event spaces in the Administration Pavilion: the Lluis Domenech i Montaner Room (170 m2), Sala Pau Gil (245 m2), Francesc Cambo room (245 m2), the...
Hospital de Tavera
Hospital, prison & institution
Sixteenth century hospital outside the walls of Toledo, with a double marble patio, a church nave, a period pharmacy, a hospital ward and panelled palace rooms.
Antigua Carcel Provincial de Huelva
Hospital, prison & institution
Disused provincial prison in Huelva with cell wings, barred galleries, exercise yards and a gatehouse, held in the Andalusia Film Commission catalogue as a prison location.
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Casa Cuartel de la Guardia Civil, Aracena
Hospital, prison & institution
Civil Guard barracks in Aracena in the Sierra de Huelva, listed by the regional film commission under its heritage-architecture and prison-building category.
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Terezín Small Fortress
Hospital, prison & institution
18th century star fort east of Terezín used as a political prison under Austria-Hungary and as a Gestapo prison during the German occupation, with cell blocks and courtyards preserved as a memorial.
Seen in: Fateless (2005)
Bohnice Psychiatric Hospital
Hospital, prison & institution
Pavilion-style psychiatric hospital campus opened in 1909 on a wooded hillside in north Prague, dozens of period brick buildings connected by paths and gardens, still in clinical use.
Interior and exterior filming spaces are available within the hospital grounds (own site).
Hamza Treatment Centre, Luže-Košumberk
Hospital, prison & institution
A working rehabilitation hospital founded in 1901 near Luže, with historic pavilions, functionalist buildings and newer wings set in an enclosed park with an arboretum, usable as a spa, hospital or period medical setting.
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Kaznice Brno (Brno House of Correction)
Hospital, prison & institution
A 1740s Baroque former prison and orphanage in central Brno, four linked wings around three courtyards under an intact 18th-century roof, mostly empty aside from monthly public tours.
Electricity in the chapel, workshop room and corridor to the former death cells; running water in the front building; almost 8,000 square metres of...
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Klasterni Hradisko (Military Hospital Olomouc)
Hospital, prison & institution
Former Premonstratensian monastery on the edge of Olomouc, now a working military hospital, with baroque courtyards and church interiors alongside functioning medical wards.
Ceremonial hall, library, lecture hall and convent gardens available to hire, with AV or audio-only equipment (own site).
Pardubice Hospital
Hospital, prison & institution
Regional hospital campus in Pardubice combining older pavilion wings with newer clinical buildings, listed by the national film commission as an available filming location.
Pardubice Prison
Hospital, prison & institution
A working prison in Pardubice that makes cells, a visiting room and cellars available for filming, arranged directly through the facility's own spokesperson.
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Přílepy Chateau
Hospital, prison & institution
An abandoned chateau in the village of Přílepy in the Zlín Region, converted from a 15th-century fortress by 1885 and later run as a maternity hospital until it emptied, set in a public park with rare trees.
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Fort VI, Poznań
Hospital, prison & institution
One of the 19th-century ring forts of the Poznan Fortress, built to the German fortification pattern with barrack buildings, a caponier, a dry moat and outer gates largely unaltered.
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Areszt Śledczy w Zabrzu (Zabrze Remand Prison)
Hospital, prison & institution
A closed remand prison in Zabrze built in 1888 in the style of German 19th-century prison architecture, with around 290 cells across four wings, shut down in 2018.
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District Court Poznan-Stare Miasto
Hospital, prison & institution
A 1905-1908 Wilhelmine Baroque courthouse in central Poznan with wrought-iron staircase balustrades and restored courtrooms, standing next to a still-operating 19th-century prison.
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Former City Prison, Wrocław
Hospital, prison & institution
A former municipal prison on Więzienna street in Wrocław, built from the late 14th century and enlarged into a closed quadrangle by the 1680s, its basement interrogation cells now a pub and the rest an academic institute.
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Former hospital on Drewnowska street, Lodz
Hospital, prison & institution
A former hospital building on Drewnowska street in Lodz with its own chapel and grounds, listed by the local film commission as a location for institutional interiors.
Seen in: Kruk. Szepty slychac po zmroku
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Heliodor Święcicki Clinical Hospital
Hospital, prison & institution
A working Poznan hospital complex combining a 1908 main building with a chapel, and later wings from 1973 to 2001, set among wooded grounds with benched paths.
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Regional Court in Katowice
Hospital, prison & institution
A six-storey courthouse in Katowice completed in 2009, an elongated cuboid block with 51 courtrooms, a planted internal courtyard and over 600 office rooms.
51 courtrooms, internal courtyard, rear parking area
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Regional Specialist Hospital No. 5, Sosnowiec
Hospital, prison & institution
A working trauma hospital in Sosnowiec opened in 1988 on the site of the former Coal Miners' Hospital, with a helicopter landing pad and an underground tunnel to its emergency department.
Helicopter landing pad, underground patient transfer tunnel, on-site car park
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Bodmin Jail
Hospital, prison & institution
Georgian county gaol of 1779 in granite, part restored as an attraction and part left as roofless ruin, with cell wings, barrel vaulted corridors and an execution pit.
Inveraray Jail
Hospital, prison & institution
Georgian county courthouse and two nineteenth century prison blocks kept as a museum, with cells, airing yards, a semicircular courtroom and original ironwork.
Lincoln Castle
Hospital, prison & institution
Norman castle in Lincoln whose Victorian separate-system prison building, with its wedge-shaped chapel and cells, is used as a filming location.
Seen in: Downton Abbey
National Justice Museum
Hospital, prison & institution
Former courthouse and prison in Nottingham's Lace Market, with Georgian courtrooms, Victorian cells and a medieval undercroft, now a museum of law and punishment.
Peterhead Prison Museum
Hospital, prison & institution
Former Scottish state prison at Peterhead, closed in 2013, with its original cell blocks, exercise yard and perimeter wall open as a museum.
Spaces include A Hall, the Segregation Block, the Booking In Office, the hospital wing, laundry and a woodwork area; over 125 years of prison history...
Royal Hospital Chelsea
Hospital, prison & institution
Wren designed home for army veterans with a Great Hall, chapel, panelled Long Wards, Figure Court and 66 acres of grounds running down to the Thames.
Shepton Mallet Prison
Hospital, prison & institution
Former English prison dating to 1610, closed in 2013, with cell wings, exercise yards and a gatehouse now hired as an events and filming venue.
Shrewsbury Prison
Hospital, prison & institution
A closed Victorian prison on The Dana in Shrewsbury, with wings, cells and exercise yards intact from its use until 2013.
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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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Cork City Gaol
Hospital, prison & institution
Restored 19th-century prison on a hillside above Cork city, with galleried cell blocks and warders' quarters, hired out for corporate events and filming or photo shoots.
Curragh Camp
Hospital, prison & institution
The Irish Defence Forces' main training base on the Curragh plain, with parade grounds, barrack blocks and a military college, home to around 2,000 personnel.
Richmond Barracks
Hospital, prison & institution
A former British Army barracks in Inchicore built from 1810, now a heritage centre with a restored gymnasium hall, library and gardens, and a published venue hire service.
Five hireable spaces that can be taken separately or combined, including three sizeable rooms for meetings or workshops, a large garden space, and a...
Spike Island
Hospital, prison & institution
A fortified island in Cork Harbour with a star-shaped fort and a Victorian-era prison, now open to visitors with cell blocks, tunnels and gun batteries.
Royal Hospital Kilmainham (IMMA)
Hospital, prison & institution
A 17th-century former retirement home for army pensioners on Military Road, Kilmainham, now the Irish Museum of Modern Art, with formal courtyards and grounds available for filming and events.
Wicklow's Historic Gaol
Hospital, prison & institution
Former county gaol in Wicklow town, in use from 1702 to 1924, with narrow cell blocks, a condemned cell and exercise yards preserved as a visitor attraction.
Seen in: Ghost Hunters International (2009)
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Sighet Memorial, former prison
Hospital, prison & institution
Former political prison turned museum, with two levels of cells, iron doors, tiled corridors and an inner courtyard kept close to their 1950s condition.
Coltea Hospital, Bucharest
Hospital, prison & institution
Historic city hospital rebuilt in 1888 behind a neo Romanian facade, with wards, operating theatres, an inner court and a church in the grounds.
Palace of Justice, Bucharest
Hospital, prison & institution
Courthouse of the 1890s on the Dambovita with a stone facade, a grand stair hall, panelled courtrooms and long corridors, seat of the Bucharest Court of Appeal.
Pitesti Prison Memorial
Hospital, prison & institution
Surviving wing of the prison used for the re education experiment of the early 1950s, with bare cells, barred windows and a documentary display.
Ramnicu Sarat Prison
Hospital, prison & institution
Disused prison of silence with a central hall, single cells on two levels, iron walkways and bare plaster, held as a memorial site by the IICCMER institute.
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Justizpalast Wien
Hospital, prison & institution
Vienna's historicist Palace of Justice, seat of the supreme and administrative courts, with a monumental stone facade and galleried central hall.
Sanatorium Purkersdorf
Hospital, prison & institution
An early modernist sanatorium building from 1905 on the edge of the Vienna Woods, with a clean white geometric facade, now used for events.
House 4, Semmelweis Clinic Vienna
Hospital, prison & institution
A listed former supply wing of the closed Semmelweis maternity clinic in Vienna's Waehring district, now in interim cultural use with studios, event space, cellars and an untouched attic.
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Kirche am Steinhof (Klinik Penzing)
Hospital, prison & institution
Otto Wagner's Art Nouveau hospital church of 1907 crowning a hillside campus of pavilion wards built for the former Lower Austrian asylum, now Vienna's Klinik Penzing.
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Budapest Prison Museum
Hospital, prison & institution
The Hungarian Prison Service's professional history collection in Budapest, exhibiting uniforms, restraints, firearms and other institutional material from the Austro-Hungarian era to the present.
Lipotmezo Sanatorium
Hospital, prison & institution
Abandoned former psychiatric hospital in the Buda hills, with high-ceilinged corridors, exposed pipework and a decayed operating theatre listed as a filming site by the national film commission.
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North Pest Hospital
Hospital, prison & institution
Part-disused Art Nouveau and Modernist hospital complex in North Pest, with broken-windowed wards and a glazed dome over the main building, catalogued as a filming site by the national film commission.
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Satoraljaujhely Prison Museum
Hospital, prison & institution
A prison museum in the town of Satoraljaujhely, next to the still-operating Satoraljaujhely Prison and Detention Facility, displaying the history of the Hungarian penal system from feudal punishments to the modern era.
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Kaunas Ninth Fort
Hospital, prison & institution
Fortress of 1902 later used as a prison and execution site, with casemates, cell corridors, earth ramparts, a museum block and a concrete memorial on open ground.
Lukiskes Prison 2.0
Hospital, prison & institution
Prison built in 1904 and closed in 2019, now a cultural venue: cell blocks, galleries, exercise yards, a chapel and the original barred corridors are open for events and shoots.
Seen in: Stranger Things
Kaunas Seventh Fort
Hospital, prison & institution
Nineteenth century fort in the north of Kaunas with brick barracks, tunnels, powder magazines, dry ditches and open glacis, run as a museum and event site.
Museum of Occupations and Freedom Fights
Hospital, prison & institution
Former KGB headquarters on Auku street with the basement prison preserved: cells, padded isolation rooms, an interrogation wing and the execution chamber, plus 1950s office interiors.
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Blokhuispoort
Hospital, prison & institution
Former nineteenth-century prison in Leeuwarden with a star-shaped cell wing, converted into a cultural venue with a library, hostel and workspaces.
Herinneringscentrum Kamp Westerbork
Hospital, prison & institution
The site of a Second World War transit camp near Hooghalen from which over 100,000 people were deported, now a memorial centre with a visitor centre and archive.
Seen in: Westerbork film (1944)
Zonnestraal Sanatorium
Hospital, prison & institution
Modernist 1928 former tuberculosis sanatorium near Hilversum by architect Jan Duiker, with steel-framed pavilions, large glass walls and a wooded park setting.
Veenhuizen Prison Museum
Hospital, prison & institution
Former nineteenth-century penal colony building in Veenhuizen, part of the UNESCO Colonies of Benevolence, with cell blocks, courtyards and institutional corridors.
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Cipranin Military Barracks
Hospital, prison & institution
Disused military barracks at Sombor: several buildings in an enclosed compound surrounded by mature trees.
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General Hospital of South Banat
Hospital, prison & institution
Hospital built in 1838 in classical style, standing inside the largest town park in Pancevo, with period facades and grounds.
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Pirot Courthouse
Hospital, prison & institution
Court building on the main street of Pirot in south east Serbia, with courtrooms, corridors and a formal public frontage.
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Rusanda Spa
Hospital, prison & institution
Rehabilitation spa hospital on the north shore of Lake Rusanda at Melenci, set in more than 100 hectares of pine and lime woodland with walking paths.
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Sofia Court House
Hospital, prison & institution
Neoclassical courts building of 1940 on Vitosha Boulevard, with a colonnaded front, a marble entrance hall, wide staircases and panelled court rooms.
Alexandrovska University Hospital
Hospital, prison & institution
Teaching hospital founded in 1879, a campus of late nineteenth century pavilions and later clinical blocks with long corridors, wards and lecture theatres.
St. Marina University Hospital
Hospital, prison & institution
Large teaching hospital on the western edge of Varna, with modern clinical blocks, treatment rooms, corridors and an emergency entrance.
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Copenhagen Police Headquarters (Politigarden)
Hospital, prison & institution
A 1924 neoclassical police headquarters in central Copenhagen built around a 45-metre circular courtyard with 44 Doric columns, still an active police building, that has repeatedly played itself on screen.
Seen in: Broen/Bron (The Bridge), Forbrydelsen (The Killing), Olsen-banden films
FAENGSLET (Horsens State Prison)
Hospital, prison & institution
Former Danish state prison in Horsens, closed in 2006 and reopened as a prison museum whose cell wings, exercise yards and workshop buildings are hired out for events and overnight stays.
Cell wings, museum halls, conference and event spaces, overnight accommodation
Vridslose Prison (Vridsloeselille Faengsel)
Hospital, prison & institution
A closed state prison in Albertslund built in 1859 and shut in 2018, its walled complex of cell blocks and a main gatehouse still standing at the edge of the town.
Seen in: The Olsen Gang (Olsen-banden) film series
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Corner House (former KGB building)
Hospital, prison & institution
Art nouveau corner block on Brivibas iela used by the Soviet security service, with preserved cells, interrogation rooms, corridors and a closed inner courtyard.
Daugavpils Fortress
Hospital, prison & institution
Complete early 19th century fortress town on the Daugava with earth ramparts, brick gates, parade ground, barracks and an arsenal, much of it still in everyday residential use.
Karosta Prison
Hospital, prison & institution
Former naval garrison prison built in the early 20th century, in use until 1997, with cell blocks, solitary cells, guard corridors and a bare exercise yard kept as found.
Cells, punishment cells, visitor centre, canteen, overnight stays in cells
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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.
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Alte Kaserne Winterthur
Hospital, prison & institution
Nineteenth century barracks on Technikumstrasse in Winterthur, now a cultural centre with a parade yard, long corridors, drill halls and plain institutional rooms for hire.
Ancien Penitencier, Sion
Hospital, prison & institution
Former cantonal prison below the castles of Sion, run by the Valais cantonal museums as an exhibition building, keeping its cell block structure and vaulted corridors.
Kaserne Basel
Hospital, prison & institution
Former cavalry barracks on the Rhine in Kleinbasel, a long classical block around a large courtyard, now a performance house with halls, foyers and bare service rooms.
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Grand Hospice
Hospital, prison & institution
A large nineteenth-century former almshouse in central Brussels with a neoclassical facade, an arcaded courtyard and long institutional corridors, now partly used for housing.
Entrance hall, corridors, interior courtyard, garden, carriage entrance
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Hôpital Erasme / Campus Erasme
Hospital, prison & institution
University hospital of the Université Libre de Bruxelles in Anderlecht, a large modernist 1970s hospital campus with wards, corridors and outdoor grounds.
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Patarei Sea Fortress
Hospital, prison & institution
Empty 1840s coastal fortress on the Tallinn shore used as a prison until 2002, with cell wings, long corridors, exercise yards, a hospital block and vaulted casemates.
Vabamu and KGB Prison Cells
Hospital, prison & institution
Museum of occupations at the foot of Toompea together with the preserved KGB prison cells on Pagari street, with holding cells, painted corridors and interrogation rooms.
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Cité Judiciaire
Hospital, prison & institution
Courthouse complex on the Saint-Esprit plateau above the Grund, with pale stone blocks, colonnades, courtrooms and a terrace over the valley.
neimënster (Neumünster Abbey)
Hospital, prison & institution
Former Benedictine abbey in the Grund that later served as a barracks and a prison, now a cultural centre with cloisters, vaulted cellars, a chapel and courtyards.
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The Inquisitor's Palace
Hospital, prison & institution
The former seat and prison of the Roman Inquisition in Birgu, a medieval and baroque building with courtrooms, cells and a walled courtyard, managed by Heritage Malta.
Kordin Old Military Prison
Hospital, prison & institution
A historic military prison building in the Kordin/Corradino area near Paola, listed in the Malta Film Commission's Screen Malta location catalogue.
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Concrete Military Bunkers, Vysoka pri Morave
Hospital, prison & institution
Line of abandoned 1930s Czechoslovak border bunkers on flat ground along the Morava river, set 150 to 400 metres apart, modelled on French fortifications.
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Fortress of Komarno
Hospital, prison & institution
Large Austro-Hungarian fortification system on the Danube, with sixteenth century cores, nineteenth century casemates, barrack blocks, earth ramparts and long brick corridors.
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Pitkäniemi Hospital Area
Hospital, prison & institution
Former psychiatric hospital on a lakeshore park in Nokia near Tampere, with stone buildings from the 1890s including an Italianate villa, in clinical use from 1900 until closure in 2024 and now largely vacant.
Historical stone hospital buildings completed in 1894-1895 in parkland on the shore of Lake Pyhäjärvi, part of Tampere University Hospital. The former...
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Hospitals, prisons and institutions in Greece 1
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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)
Hospitals, prisons and institutions in Norway 1
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Bastøy Prison
Hospital, prison & institution
Low-security island prison in the Oslofjord run on an open, self-sufficient farming regime, with wooden former manor buildings alongside newer institutional blocks.
Seen in: King of Devil's Island (2010), Where to Invade Next (2015), Sicko (2007, DVD extras)
Hospitals, prisons and institutions in Portugal 1
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Centro Português de Fotografia
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Porto's former prison and law court building on Largo Amor de Perdição, now the national photography museum and archive, with its original cell wings preserved.
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Langholmen
Hospital, prison & institution
Former state prison on a small island in central Stockholm, closed in 1975 and converted into a hotel, hostel and restaurant that keeps its original cell wings.
Hotel, hostel, restaurant and conference rooms in former cell wings