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Film & TV Filming Locations You Can Visit

Six real heritage places you can visit that are also famous film and TV locations, from Hazzard County to the Star Wars deserts.

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These are heritage places you can walk into that also happen to be some of the most recognisable film and television locations on earth. Not a single road trip but a bucket list, spanning a Georgia courthouse square, a Berber cave-hotel in Tunisia, a Sevillian plaza, a Spanish desert, a Highland castle and a jungle temple in Cambodia. Each stop is a real, visitable site with its own full guide on Cultural Heritage Online.

Step by step

1
Hazzard County — Cultural Heritage Online

Hazzard County

The Georgia filming locations for The Dukes of Hazzard (1979–1985), where the iconic General Lee Dodge Charger performed legendary stunts across…

Dwell ~120min

2
Tabernas Desert

Tabernas Desert

The only semi-desert in Europe -- dry badlands in Almeria, Andalusia, formed by the rain shadow of the Sierra Nevada -- chosen by Sergio Leone in 1964 as the…

Dwell ~180min

3
Plaza de Espana, Seville

Plaza de Espana, Seville

Few public spaces in Europe can match the sheer theatrical ambition of Plaza de España. Built in 1928 as the centrepiece of Seville's Ibero-American…

Dwell ~60min

4
Eilean Donan Castle

Eilean Donan Castle

Possibly the most photographed castle in Scotland, Eilean Donan rises from a small island at the meeting of three sea lochs in Wester Ross — and owes its…

Dwell ~120min

5
Matmata Best Star Wars filming — via Wikimedia Commons

Matmata

A Berber town in southern Tunisia where traditional underground troglodyte dwellings carved into desert pits have housed residents for generations, now…

Dwell ~90min

6
Ta Prohm

Ta Prohm

Built in 1186 by the Khmer king Jayavarman VII as a Buddhist monastery and university, Ta Prohm is the temple the jungle reclaimed — its stone galleries…

Dwell ~120min

7
Ait Benhaddou — via Wikimedia Commons

Aït Benhaddou

A fortified ksar on the Ouarzazate river in southeastern Morocco, Ait Benhaddou preserves centuries of caravan-route architecture as a UNESCO World Heritage Site.

Dwell ~150min

8
Skellig Michael

Skellig Michael

The most dramatically placed early Christian monastery in the world and a place of near-impossible beauty — Skellig Michael is a 218-metre pyramid of…

Dwell ~180min

9
Himeji Castle

Himeji Castle

The finest surviving feudal castle in Japan and the most complete example of Japanese castle architecture in existence — Himeji Castle (Shirasagijô, “White…

Dwell ~120min

10
Carcassonne

Carcassonne

The largest and best-preserved medieval fortified city in Europe and the most complete example of a medieval defensive system in the world — Carcassonne…

Dwell ~120min

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