Film locations in Malta
Malta, Gozo and Comino have stood in for Rome, King's Landing, Troy and Istanbul. Here is every place we've mapped, area by area.
Mdina
About Mdina →Mdina
Mdina Main Gate
Mdina Main Gate was the gate of King's Landing in Game of Thrones season 1, episode 3 ('Lord Snow'), where Catelyn Stark arrives in the city.
Game of ThronesDas Boot
Mdina
Mesquita Square
Mesquita Square in Mdina was the outside of Littlefinger's brothel in Game of Thrones season 1, and where Jaime Lannister's men attack Ned Stark in episode 5.
Game of Thrones
Mdina
St Paul's Square and Cathedral
St Paul's Square, in front of Mdina's Baroque cathedral, was used by Ridley Scott for Napoleon (2023), filmed in Malta in May 2022, with Napoleon and Joséphine seen under the cathedral's entrance.
Napoleon
Mdina
Palazzo Vilhena
Palazzo Vilhena, the French Baroque palace just inside Mdina's Main Gate that now houses the National Museum of Natural History, was a filming location for Ridley Scott's Gladiator II (2024).
Gladiator II
Kalkara
About Kalkara →Kalkara
Fort Ricasoli
Fort Ricasoli in Kalkara was ancient Rome in Gladiator (2000) and Gladiator II (2024), and its main gate was the Red Keep in Game of Thrones season 1.
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Kalkara
Malta Film Studios Water Tanks
Malta Film Studios in Kalkara has huge seaside water tanks that blend into the real horizon. Sense8 shot its 2016 Christmas special opening here, and Sky's Das Boot used them for submarine scenes.
Sense8Das Boot
Birgu
About Birgu →Birgu
Fort St Angelo
Fort St Angelo in Birgu was used for the Red Keep dungeons in Game of Thrones season 1.
Game of ThronesJurassic World Dominion
Birgu
Collegiate Church of St Lawrence
The Collegiate Church of St Lawrence on the Birgu waterfront is the church whose roof Claire runs across while escaping raptors in Jurassic World Dominion, filmed in Malta in late summer 2020.
Jurassic World Dominion
Valletta
About Valletta →Valletta
Fort St Elmo
Fort St Elmo in Valletta was the Turkish prison in Midnight Express (1978).
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Valletta
Eagle Street, Valletta
Eagle Street (Triq l-Ajkla), a tiny stepped lane in Valletta, is where Arya Stark tries to swap a pigeon for bread just before following the crowd to her father's execution in Game of Thrones season 1, episode 9 'Baelor'.
Game of Thrones
Valletta
St George's Square
St George's Square, the open square in front of the Grandmaster's Palace in Valletta, is where the stunt team filmed raptors chasing Owen Grady through the city for Jurassic World Dominion in late summer 2020.
Jurassic World Dominion
Valletta
Victoria Gate
Victoria Gate, the 1885 gateway leading from Valletta down to the Grand Harbour, is the arch Owen Grady races through towards the airstrip at the end of the Malta chase in Jurassic World Dominion (2022).
Jurassic World Dominion
Valletta
Church of Our Lady of Liesse
The Church of Our Lady of Liesse, the Baroque church just below Victoria Gate above Valletta's harbour, is where Owen and Barry keep watch from the rooftop over the city in Jurassic World Dominion (2022).
Jurassic World Dominion
Valletta
St Ursula Street
St Ursula Street and nearby St Nicholas Street in Valletta are the narrow streets where Jurassic World Dominion (2022) filmed its truck chase, and the British Hotel at the street's harbour end played the 'Athens' hotel in Spielberg's Munich (2005).
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Valletta
Merchants Street
Merchants Street, the long market street parallel to Republic Street in Valletta, was dressed with sand, carts and stalls as 15th-century Spain for the parkour rooftop chase in Assassin's Creed (2016), filmed from late summer 2015.
Assassin's Creed
Valletta
Basilica of St Dominic
The Basilica of St Dominic (Porto Salvo) on Merchants Street in Valletta is where Assassin's Creed (2016) filmed the climax of its rooftop chase, with Aguilar fighting across the basilica's roof.
Assassin's Creed
Valletta
Republic Square
Republic Square, the café-filled square in front of the National Library on Valletta's Republic Street, played a terrace café in 'Rome' in Steven Spielberg's Munich (2005).
Munich
Valletta
Old Customs House
The old Customs House on Valletta's Lascaris waterfront, below Lascaris Bastion, is where Poirot boards the boat leaving 'Jerusalem' at the start of Kenneth Branagh's Murder on the Orient Express (2017).
Murder on the Orient Express
Valletta
Mediterranean Conference Centre (Sacra Infermeria)
Valletta's Mediterranean Conference Centre, the Knights' 1574 Sacra Infermeria hospital, played the 'Bank Internazzjonali ta' Malta' in season three of Queen of the South and the hospital for the criminally insane in Midnight Express.
Queen of the SouthMidnight Express
Valletta
Strait Street (Strada Stretta)
Strait Street, Valletta's narrow former sailors' quarter, gave its name to the Maltese TV drama Strada Stretta (2015–2017), which was filmed mainly on the street itself. Big-budget films have also dressed its lanes.
Strada Stretta
Manoel Island
About Manoel Island →Mellieħa
About Mellieħa →Mellieħa
Popeye Village
Popeye Village at Anchor Bay is the original Sweethaven set built for Popeye (1980), starring Robin Williams, and still standing today.
Popeye
Mellieħa
Manikata (Lhazareen village)
Old farm ruins around Manikata, a small farming village in Malta's north-west, played the Lhazareen village sacked by Khal Drogo's Dothraki in Game of Thrones season 1, episode 8 'The Pointy End', filmed in late October 2010.
Game of Thrones
Mellieħa
Golden Bay
Golden Bay, a sandy beach on Malta's northwest coast, was closed off as a film set in February 2018 for National Geographic's Genius: Picasso with Antonio Banderas, and features in Channel 5's 2024 thriller The Wives.
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Buskett & Siġġiewi
About Buskett & Siġġiewi →Attard
About Attard →Dwejra
About Dwejra →Comino
About Comino →Comino
Blue Lagoon & Santa Marija Bay
Comino's Blue Lagoon and Santa Marija Bay were used as Mediterranean coastline in Troy (2004) and The Count of Monte Cristo (2002).
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Comino
St Mary's Tower
St Mary's Tower, the 1618 Knights' watchtower on Comino, played the exterior of the Château d'If prison in The Count of Monte Cristo (2002), starring Jim Caviezel.
The Count of Monte Cristo
Rabat
About Rabat →Rabat
St Dominic's Priory (Dominican Convent), Rabat
The cloister garden of St Dominic's Priory in Rabat played the Red Keep garden in Game of Thrones season 1, episode 7 'You Win or You Die', where Ned Stark tells Cersei Lannister he knows her children are Jaime's.
Game of Thrones
Rabat
Mtaħleb & Miġra l-Ferħa Cliffs
The remote clifftops at Mtaħleb and Miġra l-Ferħa, on Malta's west coast near Rabat, became the Dothraki camp in Game of Thrones season 1, where Khal Drogo falls ill in 'Baelor' and burns on his funeral pyre in 'Fire and Blood'.
Game of Thrones
Rabat
St Paul's Square, Rabat
The square in front of St Paul's Church in Rabat, just outside Mdina, became a 'Roman' piazza where the Mossad team meets at an outdoor café in Steven Spielberg's Munich (2005).
Munich
Floriana
About Floriana →Cospicua (Bormla)
About Cospicua (Bormla) →Sliema
About Sliema →Għajn Tuffieħa
About Għajn Tuffieħa →Mġarr ix-Xini
About Mġarr ix-Xini →Victoria (Rabat), Gozo
About Victoria (Rabat), Gozo →Victoria (Rabat), Gozo
The Citadel (Cittadella), Victoria
The Citadel in Victoria, Gozo, is the island's fortified hilltop old town. In 2007 Coronation Street filmed the opening of Steve and Eileen's Gozo holiday episodes on the steps of its Cathedral of the Assumption.
Coronation Street
Victoria (Rabat), Gozo
Independence Square (It-Tokk), Victoria
Independence Square, or It-Tokk, is the main square of Victoria, Gozo. The Madame Blanc Mysteries uses Victoria's old shopping lanes here for Jean's antique shop, and the town hall reportedly plays the Sainte Victoire museum.
The Madame Blanc MysteriesCoronation Street
Ta' Sannat
About Ta' Sannat →L-Għarb
About L-Għarb →Xagħra
About Xagħra →Mġarr (Gozo)
About Mġarr (Gozo) →Xlendi
About Xlendi →See it on the map
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