Tuscany has often been the harmonious and beautiful location of important films known all over the world.
A Region appreciated by directors and screenwriters, not only within the Italian borders, but also in Hollywood. Thus becoming the setting for world-famous films that have received Oscar awards and important awards.

The romantic streets, Renaissance palaces, and churches of the Val d’Orcia, were the set of the movie “The English Patient” (9 Oscar awards in 1996). At the close of World War II, a young nurse tends to a badly-burned plane crash victim. His past is shown in flashbacks, revealing an involvement in a fateful love affair.

The film that perhaps more than any other has enhanced the Val d’Orcia is “Gladiator” by Ridley Scott. There are two emblematic scenes from the film shot here. Firstly, the Gladiator’s house, set of the dramatic episode of the murder of his family. Secondly the famous finale in which the gladiator caresses the ripe wheat in the Elysian Fields.

Franco Zeffirelli directed some of his cult films in the Val d’Orcia. Particularly in Pienza, where the great master Franco Zeffirelli directed “Romeo and Juliet”. Some of the main scenes were shot in the courtyard of Palazzo Piccolomini and some are divided between Piazza Pio II and Corso Rossellino. The film “Brother sun sister moon” was shot in Val d’Orcia too. This movie is about the life of St. Francis of Assisi from his conversion experience to his audience with the pope.

The Taviani brothers also chose the Val d’Orcia for their film “Wondrous Boccaccio”, where 10 young friends hide out from the plague during the 1300s.

Pienza and Montepulciano have also been the location of recent films such as “New Moon – The Twilight saga” and “The Medici” series. While set in the region’s capital of Florence, much of the filming takes place on location around Tuscany, like Volterra, Montepulciano Pistoia, Pienza.


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