Latium Region Of Italy - Italian Movie Trips

Towns & Villages Of Latium Italy:

Bassano Romano

Bassano Romano

A small village near Rome, Bassano Romano is privileged to provide one of the most recognizable settings of the good life in modern Italy, namely the palace Palazzo Giustiniani-Odescalchi, where La Dolce vita was filmed in part. Small and circumscribed by medieval pathways, Bassano Romano is also the site of a large and peaceful monastery.

Movies filmed on location in Bassano Romano:

La Dolce vita

A bored and cynical journalist samples the dissipated life of middle-class intrigue and minor celebrity in 1960s Rome.

Caprarola Italy:

Caprarola
Built in the shape of a pentagon, the Palazzo Farnese in Caprarola is almost perfectly symmetrical, with two main doorways, one atop the other and connected by diamond shaped staircases on either side. Inside, frescoes of 16-th century maps cover the walls. Not far away in the town of Bomarzo you'll find a park full of sculptured monsters built by a monomaniacal prince from the 16th century.

Movies filmed on location in Caprarola:

Midsummer Night's Dream (1999)

Woodland faeries entertain themselves by throwing four couples into romantic confusion, care of Shakespeare's wordplay combined with Italy's stunning outdoor scenery.

Rome Italy:

Rome
Layer upon layer of civilizations and past empires are stacked and impacted into every meter of this religious and political capital, ramrod exclamation point for one of the world's greatest cultures, past or present. You can begin with the churches, the coliseums, the Roman forums, or hundreds of museums, but it's likely you'll have many reasons to come back, if only to survey the latest discoveries within the eternal city.

Movies filmed on location in Rome:

Bourne Identity

After he's recovered half-dead off the coast of Italy, Matt Damon can't remember any part of his past, but finds that he has a fat bank account and an astonishing talent for escaping security forces suddenly sent to pursue him.

Death in Venice (1971)

Originally a short-story by Nobel Prize winning German author Thomas Mann. A jaded and solitary visit to the beaches of Venice -- beaches which are truly beautiful and serene in their own right but minor stars in a city of firmaments -- by a dissipated and probably dog-bitten foreign artist who tries to renew his youth with a distant obsession for a boy at the beach. Filmed in the same Venice hotel as scenes from The English Patient -- the Hotel Des Bains

European Vacation

The culturally depraved and doggedly optimistic Griswald family take a good-natured and error-prone vacation through the cultural landmarks of Europe.

Roman Holiday

The movie which turned the best sites of Rome into everyone's romantic destination, Roman Holiday follows journalist Gregory Peck and escaped princess Audrey Hepburn as their romance develops in Rome's heartbreaking settings.

The Agony and the Ecstasy

Charlton Heston is Michelangelo in the film adaptation of Irving Stone’s biopic of the Renaissance man and his arduous painting of the Sistine Chapel.

The Comfort of Strangers

Dark, compelling fare about a British couple on holiday in Venice who learn more about themselves than they imagined. Christopher Walken shines as he leads them down a twisting path.

The English Patient

Set in several medieval buildings and churches throughout Italy including the hotel and monastery at San'Anna In Camprena, The English patient tells the story of an anonymous British soldier, so disfigured by injuries that he has apparently lost his will to live. The ministrations of a selfless nurse steadily reveal the true nature of his many injuries.

The Life Aquatic

Underwater filmmaker Bill Murray and a crew of strange, distant relations go in search of a notorious, multicolored shark, accompanied by Brazillian pop songs.

The Passion of the Christ

The Passion of the Christ depicts the terrible pain of Christ's suffering at the hands of followers and frightened Roman functionaries, with flashbacks to betrayals and decisive encounters on his path. Matera Italy serves as the backdrop for his crucifixion.

The Pink Panther (1963)

The original and possibly most adept of Inspector Clouseau's forays into comic criminal investigation shows Peter Sellers pursuing a jewel thief, mainly throughout the stunning resorts of northern Italy's Dolomite mountains.

The Talented Mr. Ripley

A psychopath with few actual talents arrives in Italy and pretends to be the wealthy socialite he was originally asked to protect. By the same director as the The English Patient.

Sutri Italy:

Sutri
Aside from its cinematic affiliations, Sutri certainly deserves a visit for its exceptionally preserved Etruscan amphitheater, the only one of its kind from the Etruscan era.

Movies filmed on location in Sutri:

• Midsummer Night's Dream (1999)

Tivoli
You can't miss the opportunity to see some of Europe's greatest villas built by Rome's retiring emperors and poets over the centuries. Overlooking a river and with long views of Rome, Tivoli features the unmatched Hadrian's Villa and Villa D'Este -- essentially massive collections of world artifacts set amidst unsurpassed gardens of intricate fountains and water pools.

Movies filmed on location in Tivoli:

• Midsummer Night's Dream (1999)

Viterbo
Viterbo is a town where Romans and Popes of every kind have historically chosen to take their vacations. The original homes in the medieval old town are full of turrets and stairways snaking along the exteriors like secret political meeting places or possibly escapes. Nearly as many Popes have been appointed in Viterbo as in Rome, but it's always been the intricate gothic architecture, and more especially, the extensive spa with hot springs which brought them back.

Movies filmed on location in Viterbo:

• Midsummer Night's Dream (1999)