Film and TV locations in Attica
20 places to shoot in Attica, Greece: 10 offices, schools and public buildings, 3 industrial and derelict locations, 2 studios and backlots and 5 more. 5 have a photo and 2 carry practical details the location publishes itself.
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- Offices, schools and public buildings 10
- Industrial and derelict locations 3
- Film studios and backlots 2
- Cities and skylines 2
- Theatres, arenas and venues 2
- Bars, restaurants and shops 1
Academy of Athens
Office, school & public building
Neoclassical seat of Greece's national academy of sciences and letters on Panepistimiou Street in central Athens, with a colonnaded portico and tall columns topped by statues of Athena and Apollo.
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Athens City Hall
Office, school & public building
Seat of the Athens municipal council on Kotzia Square, a 19th-century building with a council chamber, offices and an inner courtyard used for civic scenes.
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Hellenic Parliament
Office, school & public building
Former royal palace on Syntagma Square that now houses the Hellenic Parliament, with a long neoclassical facade overlooking the square and the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier.
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Kotzia Square
City & skyline
Central Athens square in front of the City Hall, with an excavated ancient road visible under glass, arcaded 19th-century buildings and the National Bank headquarters nearby.
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Zappeion Hall
Theatre, arena & venue
A 19th century exhibition and conference hall next to the National Garden in Athens, with a colonnaded courtyard and grand halls used for formal indoor and exterior scenes.
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Anargyrios and Korgialenios School of Spetses
Office, school & public building
Historic boarding school building on the island of Spetses, listed by the Hellenic Film Commission as a filming location among its historic sites.
Athens Conservatoire
Office, school & public building
Music conservatory building in central Athens, listed by the Hellenic Film Commission among its Modern Greece filming locations.
Benaki Museum, Piraeus Street building
Office, school & public building
One of the Benaki Museum's Athens buildings, on Pireos street in the Rouf district, used for exhibitions and events and listed as a modern Greece filming location by the Hellenic Film Commission.
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City Link
Bar, restaurant & shop
A shopping, dining and entertainment complex in central Athens near Panepistimiou street, listed as a modern Greece filming location by the Hellenic Film Commission.
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EMST, National Museum of Contemporary Art
Industrial & derelict
Athens contemporary art museum housed in the former Fix Brewery building on Kallirois Avenue, listed by the Hellenic Film Commission as a filming location.
Fertilizer Factory, Drapetsona
Industrial & derelict
A derelict phosphate fertiliser plant on the Piraeus waterfront at Drapetsona, with rusted processing towers and silos used as a decayed industrial backdrop.
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Kapa Studios
Studio & backlot
A 70,000 sqm studio complex in Spata, Attica, with twelve sound stages from 400 to 2,100 sqm, plus a 20,000 sqm backlot with standing sets including a 1960s Greek village and a reality-TV house.
Seen in: House of David, Tehran, The Witch, Sasmos
12 sound stages (Spata and Markopoulo sites) from 400 sqm/7.3m height to 2,100 sqm/18m height, HD-equipped control rooms, generators and climate...
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National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
Office, school & public building
The neoclassical main building of Greece's oldest university on Panepistimiou Street in central Athens, part of the 19th century Athens Trilogy, used for grand academic and civic interiors and facades.
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National Bank of Greece Headquarters
Office, school & public building
Head office building of Greece's National Bank in central Athens, listed by the Hellenic Film Commission among its Modern Greece filming locations.
National Garden of Athens
City & skyline
19th-century public park behind the Greek Parliament in central Athens, with shaded paths, ponds, ancient fragments and a small zoo, bordering the Zappeion grounds.
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National Historical Museum (Old Parliament House)
Office, school & public building
The former Greek Parliament building on Stadiou Street in Athens, now the National Historical Museum, with 19th century chambers and a grand facade used for period government scenes.
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National Library of Greece, old building
Office, school & public building
Neoclassical former home of the National Library of Greece on Panepistimiou Street, part of the Athens Trilogy with a domed reading room and a marble double staircase.
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Power Station of Lavrio
Industrial & derelict
A power station on the coast at Lavrio in southern Attica, part of the town's industrial mining and metallurgy heritage, used as a large-scale industrial backdrop.
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Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Centre
Theatre, arena & venue
Cultural complex on the Faliro waterfront in Athens housing the Greek National Opera and National Library, listed by the Hellenic Film Commission as a filming location.
Studio Karamanos
Studio & backlot
Television and event studio in Ilion, Athens, combined with a camera and lighting equipment rental house, used for entertainment shows and commercials.
Seen in: MasterChef, Who Wants to Be a Millionaire
Site describes it as the largest TV studio in Greece and one of the largest in the Balkans; camera equipment (Arri film and digital cameras, lenses,...
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