Meereen - KlisĪbout four hours’ drive up the coast to Split, you land in Meereen - or known in real life as Klis Fortress.
Dominic Street was used for most of the market scenes in King’s Landing. There are many other locations used in the now uber-popular tourist destination: Rector’s Palace was the residence of the Spice King in Qarth Ploče Gate was the Red Keep gate the Rupe Ethnographic Museum acted as the exterior of Littlefinger’s brothel and St. When Daenerys searches for her missing dragon, she’s walking around the highest point of the city, and it’s there that she sees the Iron Throne for the first time. Minceta Tower, the tallest of four fortresses inside the city walls, was used as the House of Undying. Remember Cersei’s walk of shame? Those marbles carried her feet to the Jesuit Stairs, which are not to be confused with the steps of the Great Sept of Baelor, which is in Girona, Spain. The Stradun is the long main street made entirely of white marble that stretches between the cathedral and the Sponza Palace. Throughout the streets and baroque and Renaissance buildings of Dubrovnik, scenes with Cersei, Arya, Tyrion, Littlefinger, and so many others occurred. While it’s not clear if this had anything to do with the fact that the town doubled as King’s Landing - one of the more frequently used locations in the show - for eight years of filming, we can assume it had some effect on the numbers. But, as of 2017, the UNESCO World Heritage site with ancient city walls towering over the crystalline Adriatic was forced to limit the number of tourists. Lordsport - Ballintoy Harbourĭubrovnik used to be a European tourist go-to because it was beautiful and cheap. Though much of Pyke Castle was created by CGI, the look and feel of the landscape around the 13th-century castle, including its crumbling structure, are still really present in the show. It was filmed at Dunluce Castle, medieval castle ruins now partially fallen into the sea and accessible only by a bridge connecting it to the mainland. One such location was House Greyjoy at Castle Pyke in the Iron Islands. The towns, countryside, castles, and keeps of Northern Ireland were used extensively in the show throughout all eight seasons, including stage sets built at Titanic Studios in Belfast.
What’s more, the real names sound just as magical: Ballintoy, the Glens of Antrim, Cushendun Caves, Tollymore Forest.” “ rugged, remote, and intensely green requires little in the way of CGI to double as Thrones landmarks like Pyke, the Isle of Dragonstone, the Stormlands, and Winterfell. “ not surprising how much of the Northern Irish landscape is called upon as a backdrop,” writes travel writer Jennifer Ceaser. Northern Ireland Castle Pyke - Dunluce Castle At the Great Sept of Baelor, which was shot at the Girona Cathedral, with hundreds of Tyrell soldiers and Sparrows in the streets, Jaime Lannister rode up the steep steps on horseback to Queen Margaery and, with the blessing of Lord Baratheon, demanded her and her brother’s release. While the Titan of Braavos - the giant statue with sword and shield straddling the waterway entry to the city - might not be real, there are plenty of aspects of the city that remain fresh in our minds as Game of Thrones scenes, including one of the more memorable moments in the series. (Though some of Braavos was also filmed in the Croatian city of Šibenik, where walled alleyways matched with Girona’s.) The Archaeological Walk and Carrer del Rei Ferran el Catòlic just in front of the entrance to the Arab Baths were used for the marketplace where Arya wanders around, blind and begging. The medieval architecture of the Catalan city of Girona sets the scene for Arya’s difficult journey and eventual training as a Faceless Man in season six.