Offices, schools and public buildings to film in Italy
13 of them, 5 with a photo and 5 with practical details the location publishes itself. 1 have a documented shooting history. Every entry links to the location or to the body that manages it.
Offices, town halls, courtrooms, libraries, universities and schools: the interiors most contemporary drama actually needs.
Shooting in Italy pays back through the Tax credit for international productions (40%): work out the net value on your own spend in the incentive comparison.
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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Offices, schools and public buildings elsewhere in Europe
- Germany 42
- Spain 31
- United Kingdom 31
- France 23
- Poland 18
- Austria 15
- Greece 13
- Netherlands 13
- Bulgaria 12
- Croatia 11
- Czech Republic 11
- Romania 11
Other kinds of location in Italy
- Theatres, arenas and venues 14
- Industrial and derelict locations 30
- Transport and infrastructure 19
- Film studios and backlots 12
- Hospitals, prisons and institutions 8
- Bars, restaurants and shops 8
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