Where was Cinema Paradiso filmed
Nuovo Cinema Paradiso
Year: 1988
Country: Italy
<p>The movie was filmed in Bagheria, Sicily, the hometown of director Giuseppe Tornatore. The fictional town of “Giancaldo” in the movie is a collection of various buildings and landscapes of the Palermitan province: Castelbuno, Cefalù and others. Most of the action of the movie takes place in the town square, in reality it was the Piazza Umberto I. This square is now home to the Cinema Raradiso museum, which can be visited by anyone.</p>
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Locations
School
In movie
Scene where A multitude of children in school uniforms run screaming down the stairs leading to the building. Toto changes into his uniform. A man walks by. He leads his stubborn son to the school, saying that he must get his diploma and go into the service.
Real
Scene was shot in the municipality of Castelbuono in Sicily. The school in the movie was the Castello di Castelbuono castle. It was built at the end of the 14th century by the Ventimiglia family on the top of Mount Bonifato. It was around the castle that the town was formed.
Streets of Rome
In movie
Scene where Salvatore Di Vita (Jacques Perrin) is driving a car along the street. He absent-mindedly smokes a cigarette and drives the car as if immersed in his own thoughts. It is dark outside the window, the sidewalks are empty, and the car moves slowly to a measured, melancholy tune
Real
Scene was shot A monument to Victor Emmanuel II is seen near Piazza Venezia in Rome. The monument was built in honor of the first king of united Italy. The Vittoriano is a grand palace that sits on the slope of Capitoline Hill. One of the seven hills on which ancient Rome emerged.
Town Square
In movie
Scene where Bells ringing, we see the central square of the Sicilian village of Giancaldo. A girl washes her hair in a fountain. A man is loudly selling stockings. Villagers line up at the fountain to fill buckets of water
Real
Scene was shot in the town square of Piazza Umberto I in the village of Palazzo Adriano. A small commune in Italy, located in Sicily near Palermo, with a population of just over 2,500. The octagonal fountain, which takes up most of the frame, was erected in 1608.