Italian Movie Locations, Trip Ideas & More!

While it's true that Hollywood producers typically look to the UK or France for overseas locations, few movie locations are as striking or as immediately identifiable as the Italian landscape, with its manicured hills, red-tiled roofs, and cobblestone piazzas. The movies listed in this guide -- mostly recent productions set in notable but comparatively less visited towns surrounding Florence, Rome, Venice, and Naples -- are portraits in their own right of modern Italy and the permanent antiquity of its setting.

If your planning on traveling Italy to survey the astonishing artistry and history, it's hoped that this guide will also provide advice about finding recognizable settings in unexpected places. italian-movie-trips.com is my home spun Italian vacation guide with a look into the incredibly beautiful that is Italy through a film lens.

Just a short list of recent movie locations throughout Italy includes:

Under the Tuscan Sun
Set in idyllic small towns such as the poet Petrarch's hometown and a lakeside Etruscan capital.

The Italian Job
Filmed on location in Italian ports and mountain towns where everyone from Columbus to the Pope seems to have hatched a desperate plan.

The English Patient
Using some of the same towns as Under the Tuscan Sun, along with a monastery near a town built by the pope to encapsulate the Renaissance ideal.

Star Wars Episode I
Filmed in the palace where Allied forces kept their headquarters during World War II.

The Red Violin
Set in the town where Stradivari and many others transformed violins into works of art.

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