Benedetta was filmed in France and Italy.
Chapel Vitaleta
In movie
Scene where On his way to the convent, the young Benedetta stops to pay homage to the Virgin Mary.
Real
Scene was shot Chapel Vitaleta is located in the province of Siena, next to the village of Vitaleta, on the road between San Quirico d'Orcia and Pienza.
The small hidden chapel is one of the most photographed churches in Tuscany and is truly a perfect gem.
Framed by cypress trees on either side of the bay and surrounded by rolling green hills, it looks almost too idyllic to be real.
Built in the 12th century on the spot where, according to legend, the Virgin Mary appeared to a shepherdess, the chapel was owned by the Hospital of Santa Maria della Scala in Siena and first appears in a document from 1590.
San Quirico d'Orcia
Silvacane Abbey
In movie
Scene where Benedetta Carlini decides to enter a convent as a novice in the quiet village of Pescia.
Real
Scene was shot Silvacane Abbey is a former Cistercian monastery in the municipality of La Roque-d'Anthéron, Bouches-du-Rhône, in Provence, France.
It was founded in or around 1144 as a daughter house of Morimond Abbey and was dissolved in 1443; it ceased to be an ecclesiastical property in the French Revolution.
It is one of the three Cistercian abbeys in Provence known as the "three sisters of Provence" ("les trois soeurs provençales"), the other two being Sénanque Abbey and Le Thoronet Abbey; Silvacane was possibly the last-established.
Le Thoronet Abbey was also used for filming Benedetta.
La Roque-d'Anthéron
Thoronet Abbey
In movie
Scene where Benedetta Carlini and the other sisters at work in the convent.
Real
Scene was shot Thoronet Abbey (L'abbaye du Thoronet) is a former Cistercian abbey built in the late twelfth and early thirteenth century, now restored as a museum.
It is one of the three Cistercian abbeys in Provence, along with the Sénanque Abbey and Silvacane, that together are known as "the Three Sisters of Provence."
The movie was filmed at Thoronet Abbey and Silvacane.
Bevagna Borgo d'Italia
In movie
Scene where The young Benedetta arrives at the convent.
Real
Scene was shot Bevagna is a municipality in the Italian province of Perugia (Umbria region).
Bevagna