Industrial and derelict locations to film in Romania
13 of them, 5 with a photo. 1 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.
Shooting in Romania pays back through the State aid scheme for audiovisual production (30% cash rebate) (30%): work out the net value on your own spend in the incentive comparison.
Constanta Shipyard
Industrial & derelict
Shipyard inside the port with dry docks, gantry cranes, fabrication halls and outfitting quays, used for hull building and ship repair.
Seen in: The Brothers Bloom, What Happened to Monday
Neptun Baths, Baile Herculane
Industrial & derelict
Derelict nineteenth century thermal bath house on the Cerna river, with decayed halls, iron and glass roofing and an ongoing rescue project run by a volunteer association.
Praid Salt Mine
Industrial & derelict
Salt mine in Szekely Land reached by bus through a gallery to a chamber about 120 m down, with rough salt walls, mine plant and a large open underground space.
Slanic Prahova Salt Mine (Unirea Mine)
Industrial & derelict
Disused salt mine with fourteen trapezoidal chambers, machine cut walls, ceilings about 55 m high and a constant temperature, reached by lift from the surface plant.
Turda Salt Mine
Industrial & derelict
Former salt mine open to visitors, with bell shaped chambers, preserved timber winding gear, a mine shaft lift and an underground lake about 100 m below ground.
Damen Shipyards Galati
Industrial & derelict
River shipyard on the Danube with covered building halls, slipways, heavy cranes and outfitting quays, one of the largest yards in the country.
Hala Laminor, Bucharest
Industrial & derelict
Rolling mill hall of the former Malaxa works in east Bucharest, a steel framed industrial space of about 68,000 sq m kept for cultural and event use.
Halele Carol and Nod Makerspace, Bucharest
Industrial & derelict
Former Hesper factory halls beside the Dambovita, now workshops and studios with brick walls, steel trusses, gantry beams and tall windows, rented out for shoots and events.
Liberty Galati steelworks
Industrial & derelict
Integrated steel plant on the Danube with blast furnaces, coke batteries, rolling mills, rail sidings and its own river port, the largest industrial site in eastern Romania.
National Oil Museum, Ploiesti
Industrial & derelict
Museum of the Romanian oil industry with derricks, pumps, drilling rigs and refinery equipment in the yard, in a city ringed by working refineries.
Oil Terminal Constanta
Industrial & derelict
Oil storage and handling terminal in the port with tank farms, pipe racks, pump houses and loading jetties spread over several platforms.
Resita Steam Locomotive Museum and works quarter
Industrial & derelict
Open air line of locomotives built in Resita, set in the old ironworks quarter with furnace buildings, works housing and rail infrastructure around it.
Rosia Montana mining landscape
Industrial & derelict
Mining village with Roman galleries, nineteenth century stamp mills, tailings ponds and empty company houses, added to the UNESCO list in 2021.
Industrial and derelict locations elsewhere in Europe
- Germany 48
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- United Kingdom 39
- France 36
- Italy 30
- Poland 28
- Czech Republic 22
- Netherlands 15
- Greece 14
- Portugal 11
- Hungary 10
- Serbia 10
Other kinds of location in Romania
- Theatres, arenas and venues 8
- Offices, schools and public buildings 11
- Transport and infrastructure 10
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