Film + Travel Europe: Traveling the World Through Your Favorite Movies
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Featuring color photographs of movie locations, sites, and landmarks, this guide for film buffs and travel lovers provides information about notable scenes from nearly 200 movies shot throughout Europe. Visit Almeria, Spain, and be transported into the iconic scenes of Lawrence of Arabia. Enjoy an incredible view of Paris from Amélie’s Montmartre. Mail a postcard in Procida, Italy, and see the sights shot in Il Postino. Prowl through the neighborhoods of Hamburg like Dennis Hopper and feel the eerie glow that is emitted in The American Friend. Find out how the location of Atonement was found and why Iceland stood in for the sands of Iwo Jima, and much, much more.
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Film + Travel Europe - Museyon Guides
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Permission to use La Dolce Vita
courtesy of: © International Media Films, Inc.
Cover Illustration: © Jillian Tamaki copyright 2008
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MAP : EUROPE
TABLE OF CONTENTS
01 : LANDSCAPES OF IMAGINATION: CINEMATIC LEGACY
SPAIN BY SHARI KIZIRIAN
Desierto de Tabernas
Cortijo Los Frailes
Cabo de Gata Natural Park
Guadix
Almería
El Algarrobico
Manzanares el Real
Ávila
Alcázar de Segovia
Costa Blanca
Belmonte Castle
Peñiscola, Costa Dorada
Sierra de Guadarrama
Almodovar’s Madrid
Soria
Extremadura
Esquivias
Hoyuelos
The Catalan Coast
España Verde
Bay of Biscay
Galicia
San Martín de Tours
La Cuidad Encantada
Bardenas Reales Nature Preserve
02 : BEYOND BAGUETTES
FRANCE BY JULIEN SEVEON
Brittany
Quimper
Pont Aven
Dinard
Saint Tropez
Marseille Port
Le Panier
Corsica
Notre Dame de Paris
Butte Montmartre
Belgium by In Bruges
Canal Saint Martin
Versailles
03 : STREET WALKING
ITALY BY LIZ BROWN
Rome
Porta Portese
Via Panico
Pigneto
Parco degli Aquedotti
Vatican City
Caserta Palace
EUR
Palazzo della Civilta del Lavoro
Borsa
Florence
Hotel degli Orafi
Venice
San Nicolo dei Mendicoli
Bauer Hotel
Caffe Florian
Cinecittà Studios
Procida and Ischia
Castello Aragonese
Corricella
Matera
Sicily
Teatro Massimo
Ragusa
Siracusa
04 : ENDURING HISTORY, ENDURING LANDMARKS
GERMANY BY HANNAH TUCKER
Tempelhof Airport
Kufürstendamm
Checkpoint Charlie
Brandenburg Gate
Berlin Coca-Cola Plant
Alexanderplatz
Sanssouci
Atlantic Hotel
St. Pauli
Eberbach Monastery
Frankfurt Int’l Airport
Bürresheim Castle
Nuremberg Hauptmarkt
Nymphenburg Palace
New Schleissheim Palace
Bavaria Film Studios
Palace Neuschwanstein
05 : THE LOCAL ORIENT
ISTANBUL, TURKEY BY PELIN TURGUT
Sirkeci
Topkapi Palace
Four Seasons Hotel
Sultanahmet
Sulukule
The Bosphorus waterway
Maiden’s Tower
Kanaat
Üsküdar
Hamams
Asmalimescit
06 : FROM ATONEMENT TO TRAINSPOTTING
UNITED KINGDOM BY TOM BEER
Canterbury
Canterbury Cathedral
Hebrides Islands
Isle of Mull
Torosay Castle
Duart Castle
Tobermory
Glasgow
Crosslands
Stokesay Court
Castle Howard
Hitchcock’s London
Holy Island
Lindisfarne Castle
Brighton
Tate Modern
07 : DARK SPACE/WHITE SPACE
SCANDINAVIA BY ENRIQUE RAMIREZ
Hvidovre, Denmark (Film City
)
Skjoldenæsholm Manor
Film i Väst
Swedish Film Institute
Tromso, Norway
Sandvik Beaches
Iluissat
Tórshavn
Senate Square
Lake Vättern
08 : FROM RUSSIA, WITH LUXE
RUSSIA BY LAUREL MAURY
St. Petersburg
The Hermitage
Tsarskoe Celo
Moscow
Vladimir
Suzdal
Sochi
Black Sea
Yalta
Krasnaya
Mzimta River
READING / VIEWING
APPENDIX
INDEX + CREDITS
FILM
FOREWORD
I hate being labeled a tourist. The word brings to mind tour buses and large groups of strangers clogging up roadways and obscuring views.
Don’t get me wrong, I’m sure we’ve all gone sightseeing and visited those ‘must-see places’ recommended by even the most general of guidebooks. Those ‘must-see places’ have an importance and are well-worth seeing, but there is something uniquely exhilarating about diverging from the beaten path to make your own ‘discoveries.’ It is those ‘discoveries’ that we remember most.
Our thirst for knowledge and interest in other places and peoples often takes us into uncharted territory. The Museion, built in ancient Alexandria, Egypt, was an institute founded to expand our knowledge and dedicated to the Muses, the sister goddesses of art, poetry, literature, philosophy and music. The Museyon Guides were created as an expression of that same endeavour. Unique in their format, the Museyon Guides are written for those who are ready to detour and experience culture through their own interests and obsessions.
The first of the Museyon Guides, The Museyon Guide: Film+Travel, takes off across Europe discovering those picture-perfect scenes from movies we all know and love. Visit Sergio Leone’s wild west in Andalusia, Spain, or head to the Gulf of Naples and the island of Procida to discover the post office in Il Postino. By taking the leap to travel to these destinations we discover that the backdrop of these films provides a gateway into a country and culture that is often overlooked.
Meticulously researched from every angle by film reviewers, producers, directors and location specialists, Museyon will transform your relationship with film and change the way you travel.
I hope to see you on location.
01
LANDSCAPES OF IMAGINATION: CINEMATIC LEGACY
SPAIN
A typical trip to Spain entails boarding a train in France to cross the Pyrenees and taking a city-dotted tour of well-worn cultural hotspots. Barcelona’s dizzying Sagrada Familia, Madrid’s Prado museum, and the Moorish architecture of Seville are de rigueur, with perhaps a jaunt north to San Sebastian’s old city in quaint, seaside Basque country and a possible stopover in Pamplona, bulls or no. Then it’s back to Paris for the return flight home.
While a fine itinerary, this plan rushes through much of what makes Spain Spanish. From the rocky green Pyrenees to the spiky mountains of Extremadura, to the parched plains of La Mancha, which fired the imagination of Cervantes’s Don Quixote, and the undulating deserts of Andalusia, Spain offers a remarkable and varied geography. Often only glimpsed by passengers through a moving train’s windows, these landscapes are familiar to anyone with an interest in cinema. They just might not know they were looking at Spain.
Long shots of the taciturn, poncho-draped Clint Eastwood facing down danger in unforgiving terrain are perhaps the most enduring images of the American West. Yet they were filmed in Spain’s southern province of Andalusia. Sergio Leone’s famed spaghetti western trilogy (A Fistful of Dollars, For a Few Dollars More, and The Good, the Bad and the Ugly) was shot in and around the arid
Desierto de Tabernas, laced by the Sierra de Los Filabres and by the beaches of the Costa del Sol. The famous circular duel in For a Few Dollars More (and in Leone’s Once Upon a Time in the West) was shot near Los Albaricoques (meaning apricots), a town offering easy access to the well-maintained coastal preserve of Cabo de Gata.
Cortijo Los Frailes in Cabo de Gata played the monastery where Tuco’s brother nurses Blondie back to health in The Good the Bad and the Ugly. While Tuco taunted the recovering Blondie to give up the name on