The TV series locations anyone can visit

Everyone loves a good TV series, especially in recent years. It’s so easy to while away days or hours getting immersed in another world, and for many fans, the idea of visiting the locations where filming took place sounds like a lot of fun. Luckily, this is often possible, and Wizz Air make it possible to visit several of the settings for TV’s recent shows. Here are a few to consider.

Bridgerton

There are several buildings in England’s capital that play host to the Netflix hit Bridgerton.

Based in Greenwich, southeast London, Rangers House is home to the exterior of the Bridgertons’ House. Minus the wisteria, the Rangers House was originally home to Princess Augusta, King George I’s sister. Now, it houses sculptures, jewellery and French tapestry, all overseen by English Heritage.

The Bridgerton series see several characters wander through elaborate parks and gardens. Painshill Park, Surrey is masked as Primrose Hill in series one and is free to enter.

Inventing Anna

Episode 6: Friends in Low Places saw Anna and her friends take a (doomed) luxury vacation to La Mamounia, Morocco. The episode was filmed in not only the real La Mamounia but at the exact riad that Anna Delvey rented in 2017. Filmmakers recently revealed that the managers of the hotel remember Anna and stated that she left the room “in a mess”.

Not everything in Inventing Anna is fully replicated. The infamous tour of Majorelle Garden, Yves Saint Laurent’s former Marrakesh mansion, is not the real location. The real mansion boasts so many expensive antiques, filmmakers rented a villa close by and took several steps, including building fake walls, to replicate the building.

Killing Eve

Villanelle’s home in Barcelona was shot on the main floor of Cases Ramos in the central Gràcia district. Located in a Moorish architectural building 50 miles north of central Barcelona, the apartment that saw Villanelle’s Spanish escapades was designed in 1906 by Modernist architect Jaume Torres Grau and is maintained by its owners as “an architectural experience in the Modernist Barcelona of 1906”. The property is available to not only visit but is also listed on AirBnB to rent, with prices starting from around £240 a night.

Game of Thrones

The much-loved fantasy series has made numerous locations across Europe popular since its TV creation back in 2011. One of the most iconic locations was capital city Dubrovnik, which is featured across numerous episodes. Serving as the fantasy seaside capital of the Seven Kingdoms, Kings Landing, Dubrovnik provided a sense of the Renaissance, with baroque staircases and medieval fortified city walls. King’s Landing is home to the Iron Throne, which makes this a particularly popular attraction for fans.

The Crown

Quite surprisingly, many parts of series four of the popular series, The Crown (which followed Prince Charles and Princess Diana’s Australian tour) were actually filmed across Spain. The shots that feature Hotel Malaga Palacio, Castanon de Mena (a military residence) and Postigo de Los Abades (a neighbourhood street) are all actually on the streets of Malaga, a long way away from the Australian city the narrative is supposed to be depicting.

Perhaps more surprisingly, the shot of Ayers Rock in Australia was not filmed there. Instead, the famous rock was depicted in Almeria in Llano del Buho near the Tabernas desert.

Spain also provides a backdrop in numerous other seasons, with Los Angeles Airport recreated with El Palacio de Congresos of Torremolinos, a convention centre in Malaga, and the streets of Sotogrande, which is a privately-owned residential development based in Andalusia, dressed up for the show to recreate the US setting.

Love Actually

Love Actually fans will be all too familiar with the character of Jamie rushing to proclaim his love for Aurelia in Portugal. However, the restaurant is not in Portugal but in the south of France! The Bar de la Marine restaurant is based in the southern port city of Marseille and boasts a traditional and typical 1930s European backdrop. The restaurant has become a popular hotspot, not just because of the Love Actually fame, but also because it has a breathtaking view of the Old Port.

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