Arezzo - Italian Movie Trips

Arezzo is a wealthy medieval town of gold factories and antique flea markets. Not only was the musical scale invented here, but Arezzo is also the town where the poet Petrarch first set down his little sonnets. You'll want to find Piero Della Francesca's stunning series of frescoes depicting the history of Christ's true cross and detailed portrayals of seminal Christian allegories.
region name: Tuscany

Movies Filmed On Location In Arezzo Italy:

Life is Beautiful (1997)

A fun-loving waiter and his young son are forced to leave their small Italian village and test their optimism in the concentration camps of Nazi Germany.

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.

Under The Tuscan Sun (2003)

Based on a recently published autobiography, an American writer moves to Italy after a painful divorce and buys a villa in Tuscany -- slowly learning from the astonishing countryside as she refurbishes her new home.