The town of Brancaleone
The town of Brancaleone
La città di Brancaleone
Itineraries
Bagnoregio and Civita
Over the years, Bagnoregio and Civita di Bagnoregio have often been chosen as a film set.
Thanks to Fellini and his director of production Luigi Giacosi (who was born here) La strada (1954), Fellini's masterpiece which won the Silver Lion at the 15th edition (1954) of the Venice Film Festival and the Academy Award as best foreign film in 1956,...
Film sets by the lake
Starting from the 1950s the two most important lakes in Tuscia, Lake Vico and Lake Bolsena, have been chosen by several film directors as filming locations.
In the beginning, Lake Vico was selected as a set for some swashbuckling and melodramatic movies produced by Fortunato Misiano's "Romana Film". Subsequently, this enchanting natural...
Brancaleone's land
Between August and September 1957, Mario Monicelli set most of the exterior scenes of Il medico e lo stregone in four locations in Tuscia: San Martino al Cimino, Valentano (the sequences of city life were filmed on the streets of these two towns), Grotte Santo Stefano (the entire sequence of the meeting between Marisa Merlini and her previous...
Viterbo
Since the first decades of the 1900s, Viterbo has been the ideal location for cinematographic productions.
Over time, numerous film directors have chosen Viterbo: from the pioneer of silent movies Silvio Laurenti Rosa - born in Viterbo – who shot here some sequences of his anti-communist melodrama Katiuscia (1923), to the actor and film director...
