Villages and countryside to film in
61 of them in 22 European countries, 38 with a photo and 10 with practical details the location publishes itself. Search and put three side by side in the locations search.
Villages, farmland, meadows and rural roads: open country with somewhere to put a unit base.
Where they are
- United Kingdom 15
- France 8
- Netherlands 6
- Hungary 5
- Czech Republic 3
- Portugal 3
- Austria 2
- Bulgaria 2
- Germany 2
- Slovakia 2
- Switzerland 2
- Belgium 1
- Finland 1
- Greece 1
- Iceland 1
- Ireland 1
- Italy 1
- Lithuania 1
- Norway 1
- Romania 1
- Slovenia 1
- Sweden 1
Villages and countryside in the United Kingdom 15
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Avoncroft Museum of Historic Buildings
Village & countryside
19-acre open-air museum near Bromsgrove with 30 rescued historic buildings including a medieval town house, a 1940s prefab and a working windmill, available for commercial filming.
Seen in: Doctors, Nativity 2
Chiltern Open Air Museum
Village & countryside
45-acre open-air museum of rescued historic buildings near Chalfont St Peter, from rustic farmsteads and Victorian cottages to wartime Nissen huts, hired out for filming.
Seen in: Call the Midwife, Downton Abbey, Midsomer Murders, Grantchester, Taskmaster
Heaton Park
Village & countryside
Large historic park on the edge of Manchester with Heaton Hall, play areas, a boating lake, golf course and open grounds adaptable for period or contemporary scenes.
Seen in: Coronation Street, It's a Sin, Brassic, Ridley, Bancroft
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Painshill
Village & countryside
Eighteenth century landscape garden at Cobham with a serpentine lake, Gothic temple, ruined abbey, crystal grotto, vineyard and long open lawns.
Seen in: Dorian Gray, Suffragette, Black Mirror, Bridgerton
Portmeirion
Village & countryside
Italianate village on the Gwynedd coast built by Clough Williams-Ellis between 1925 and 1975, with pastel-coloured buildings, a piazza and subtropical gardens.
Seen in: The Prisoner
Richmond Park
Village & countryside
Former royal hunting park of 2,500 acres in south west London with ancient oaks, deer herds, ponds, walled plantations and long open grassland.
Seen in: Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows, Into the Woods, Heat and Dust
Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh
Village & countryside
Seventy acre botanic garden a mile north of the centre, with Victorian palm houses, a modern glasshouse range, rock garden, arboretum and Georgian Inverleith House.
Ryedale Folk Museum
Village & countryside
Open-air museum of relocated rural buildings at Hutton-le-Hole in the North York Moors, spanning Iron Age to 1950s interiors, hired out for filming.
Seen in: Death Comes to Pemberley, Hacker the Dog
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Alignements de Carnac
Village & countryside
Neolithic standing stone rows spread over several kilometres of heath and pasture at Carnac, with long straight alignments, enclosures and open sky.
Ecomusee d'Alsace
Village & countryside
Open air museum built from about seventy relocated Alsatian farmhouses, with lanes, a chapel, workshops, a mill and farmyards that together read as a complete pre-industrial village.
Haras National de Lamballe
Village & countryside
State stud farm founded in 1825 in a former army barracks in Lamballe, with stone stable blocks around a courtyard and a riding arena, its own site listing hire for weddings and seminars.
Haras National du Pin
Village & countryside
France's oldest national stud, an 18th-century complex of stables around a formal chateau-style courtyard in the Orne countryside, with an equestrian arena and grounds listed for seminar hire.
Chateau l'Hospitalet
Village & countryside
Wine estate on the La Clape massif near Narbonne, with vineyards, cellars, a hotel and restaurants around a courtyard, hosting its own annual jazz festival and grounds used for private events.
Chateau La Coste
Village & countryside
Organic vineyard estate near Aix-en-Provence with a sculpture trail and pavilions by architects including Tadao Ando and Renzo Piano, a hotel and restaurant, and grounds hired for weddings.
Parc naturel regional de Briere
Village & countryside
Regional park of marshland, reed beds and canals north of Saint-Nazaire, with thatched villages, flat bottomed punts, open water and long horizons.
Parc naturel régional de Camargue
Village & countryside
Rhône delta wetland reserve of lagoons, salt pans and marshland grazed by black bulls and white horses, managed as a regional nature park.
Villages and countryside in the Netherlands 6
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Giethoorn
Village & countryside
Car-free village of thatched farmhouses linked by canals, footbridges and punting boats in the Overijssel peatlands, part of the Weerribben-Wieden wetland.
Seen in: Fanfare (1958)
Kinderdijk
Village & countryside
UNESCO World Heritage polder landscape south-east of Rotterdam with nineteen eighteenth-century windmills lined along parallel waterways.
Netherlands Open Air Museum
Village & countryside
Open-air heritage museum near Arnhem with more than 80 relocated historic Dutch buildings, farmhouses and windmills arranged as period villages around a working canal.
Schokland
Village & countryside
Former island in the old Zuiderzee, now surrounded by reclaimed polder land in Flevoland, a UNESCO World Heritage site with a museum and remains of the former village.
Zaanse Schans
Village & countryside
A relocated riverside hamlet of wooden houses, workshops and working windmills in Zaanstad, run as a heritage attraction with its own business events programme.
Zuiderzeemuseum
Village & countryside
An open-air and indoor museum in Enkhuizen that reconstructs a historic Zuiderzee fishing village with relocated houses, workshops and a working harbour.
Group and business bookings, meeting rooms, catering
Villages and countryside in Hungary 5
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Tokaj
Village & countryside
Small wine town at the meeting of the Tisza and Bodrog rivers, surrounded by centuries-old volcanic-soil vineyards and deep cellar systems used for ageing sweet Tokaji Aszu wine.
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Hortobagy National Park
Village & countryside
UNESCO-listed alkaline grassland on the Great Hungarian Plain near Debrecen, with an unbroken horizon, traditional shadoof wells and grazing herds of Hungarian grey cattle.
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Hungarian Open Air Museum (Skanzen)
Village & countryside
An open-air ethnographic museum near Szentendre with reconstructed village buildings, farmhouses, churches and a mill relocated from different regions of historic Hungary, set among fields and orchards.
Opusztaszer National Heritage Park
Village & countryside
An open-air heritage park on the Great Plain marking the site of Hungary's first national assembly, with a rotunda housing the Feszty circular panorama painting, reconstructed period buildings and an ethnographic skanzen.
Sostoi Muzeumfalu
Village & countryside
An open-air ethnographic museum near Nyiregyhaza with relocated village houses, a windmill, a church and a school laid out as a walkable historic village, with its own page for hiring the site for photo and film shoots.
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Michaluv Statek Farmstead, Pohled
Village & countryside
A preserved farmstead in the small village of Pohled on the Sazava river in Vysocina, with a farmhouse, cattle byre, granary, barn and open dooryard illustrating rural life from the 17th to early 20th century.
Farmhouse interior about 50 square metres, byre 60 square metres, granary 50 square metres, yard 2,000 square metres, garden 4,800 square metres
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National Stud Kladruby nad Labem
Village & countryside
A working national stud farm at Kladruby nad Labem breeding the Kladruber horse, pairing the historic stud with a chateau and open pastureland for the horses.
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Tlumacov Stud Farm
Village & countryside
A working state stud farm near Zlin founded in 1925 on an 18th-century manor yard, with vaulted stables for around 115 breeding stallions of several breeds, a forge and a director's villa.
Capacity: 115 · Three stables, forge, insemination station, equine treadmill, riding hall, horse-drawn carriages available
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Madeira Botanical Garden
Village & countryside
Terraced hillside garden above Funchal with exotic and native plant collections on volcanic slopes, reached by road or by a cable car from Monte.
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Quinta da Fidalga
Village & countryside
Municipal park and former country estate in Seixal, on the south bank of the Tagus, with wooded grounds listed by the national film commission for garden and forest settings.
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Quinta de Sant'Ana do Gradil
Village & countryside
Working farm and vineyard estate near the village of Gradil, 35km north of Lisbon, with 12 hectares of vines, olive and cypress groves, orchards, meadows and several holiday cottages.
Five holiday houses, gardens, swimming pool
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Hallstatt
Village & countryside
Lakeside Alpine village of stacked wooden and stucco houses between the Hallstatter See and a steep mountainside, reachable by funicular to the salt mine above.
Kitzbühel
Village & countryside
Alpine market town below the Hahnenkamm and Kitzbueheler Horn, with a pastel-fronted medieval centre and ski infrastructure running from the streets onto the pistes.
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Bozhentsi architectural reserve
Village & countryside
Protected village of stone roofed timber houses on a wooded hillside, with unpaved lanes, orchards, workshops and no modern building.
Zheravna
Village & countryside
Reserve village of about 200 wooden houses from the seventeenth to nineteenth centuries, with stone walls, cobbled lanes and beech forest around it.
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Freilichtmuseum am Kiekeberg
Village & countryside
Open air museum south of Hamburg with relocated farmhouses, barns, a village shop, gardens and field paths covering rural life from the 18th century onward.
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Weingut Klaus Zimmerling
Village & countryside
A working winery on the steep, pyramid-shaped Roesselberg slope of the historic Pillnitz royal vineyard near Dresden, producing about 10,000 litres of wine a year under organic methods.
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Cicmany
Village & countryside
Village of dark timber log houses painted with white geometric patterns, with 136 houses in the protected area and a folk architecture museum.
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Vlkolinec
Village & countryside
UNESCO listed hamlet in the Velka Fatra with log cottages, a wooden bell tower and unpaved lanes, kept as a folk architecture reservation.
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Ballenberg Open-Air Museum
Village & countryside
Open air museum near Brienz with more than a hundred rebuilt farmhouses, barns, workshops and gardens from across Switzerland, set over 66 hectares of meadow and woodland.
Lavaux Vineyard Terraces
Village & countryside
Terraced vineyards on the north shore of Lake Geneva between Lausanne and Montreux, with stone walls, wine villages, a lakeside railway and paths through the plots.
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Doel
Village & countryside
Polder village on the Scheldt earmarked for demolition since the 1990s to expand the port of Antwerp, now with around 200 empty houses, street art and a small remaining community.
Seen in: National Geographic feature (2025)
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Ivalo
Village & countryside
Village on the Ivalo River about 250 kilometres north of the Arctic Circle, surrounded by boreal forest and fells, with deep snow and polar night for much of the year.
Seen in: Arctic Circle (2018-)
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Phaistos Rural Fields
Village & countryside
Open farmland and olive groves on the Phaistos plain in south-central Crete, with the Minoan palace ruins nearby and views over the Messara valley to the Psiloritis range.
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Vik i Myrdal
Village & countryside
A small coastal village with a black-steepled church on a hill above a cluster of houses, close to black sand cliffs and sea stacks.
Seen in: Katla
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Fota Arboretum and Gardens
Village & countryside
An 11-hectare arboretum on Fota Island in Cork Harbour with rare trees and shrubs, an ornamental pond, an orangery and formal gardens laid out in the early 19th century, open for filming and photography by arrangement.
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Craco
Village & countryside
Abandoned hilltop town in Basilicata, evacuated after a 1963 landslide, with medieval stone houses, a tower and a church left standing on the exposed ridge.
Seen in: The Passion of the Christ (2004), Quantum of Solace (2008), Wonder Woman (2017)
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Kernave Archaeological Site
Village & countryside
UNESCO listed site of five hill forts above the Neris terrace, with open meadows, a reconstructed settlement and a small village, an hour from Vilnius.
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Njardarheimr Viking Valley
Village & countryside
Reconstructed Viking-age settlement of turf-roofed timber longhouses and workshops at the head of Nærøyfjorden, built and staffed as a living-history village.
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ASTRA Open Air Museum, Sibiu
Village & countryside
Open air museum with over 400 relocated rural buildings, watermills, workshops and farmsteads set among 96 hectares of forest, meadows and a lake.
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Soca Valley at Bovec
Village & countryside
Upper Soca valley around Bovec, with a turquoise river in gravel beds and gorges, hay meadows, scattered stone villages and the Julian Alps on both sides.
Seen in: The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian
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Skansen
Village & countryside
Open-air museum on Djurgarden in Stockholm, the oldest of its kind in the world, with about 190 historic buildings relocated from across Sweden plus a zoo.
Business bookings and bookable group experiences