Industrial and derelict locations to film in Italy
30 of them, 7 with a photo and 17 with practical details the location publishes itself. 4 have a documented shooting history. Every entry links to the location or to the body that manages it.
Factories, warehouses, power stations, mines, depots and abandoned buildings: raw space, hard surfaces and the kind of decay that is impossible to build.
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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.
Industrial and derelict locations elsewhere in Europe
- Germany 48
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- Serbia 10
Other kinds of location in Italy
- Theatres, arenas and venues 14
- Offices, schools and public buildings 13
- Transport and infrastructure 19
- Film studios and backlots 12
- Hospitals, prisons and institutions 8
- Bars, restaurants and shops 8
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