Films/shows set in Barcelona & Catalonia that will inspire you to travel there.

1. Game of Thrones 

GOT fans - Did you know that the sixth season of Game of Thrones was filmed in Girona? The filming of the show took place in 2015 and fans who visited during that time peeked into the film set where the cast was filming at Barri Vell. The whole city of Girona is a perfect backdrop for a medieval tale like GOT. Visit one of Europe's oldest Jewish quarter within the city centre and other close by medieval villages like Peratallada and Besalú.

2. Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara (You Only Live Once)

A Bollywood hit featuring A listers like Hrithik Roshan, Farhan Akhtar and Katrina Kaif, this film is the perfect itinerary for a road trip around Spain, particularly in Costa Brava. The movie is a delight to the eyes and ears with the great music and on screen chemistry!

3. PERFUME - The Story of A Murderer 

Based on the best selling novel by Patrick Suskind, which centres on the protagonist, Grenouille, who possesses two extraordinary qualities: he has the most acute sense of smell in the world, and has absolutely no scent of his own. He works as an apprentice to a perfumer and becomes obsessed with capturing an elusive aroma: the scent of young womanhood. This slightly dark psychological trailer is filmed all over Catalonia: Barcelona, Girona Tortosa, Tamarit, Figueres, Besalú, Cantallops. 

4. Vicky Cristina Barcelona

Woody Allen fans will be pleased with this - Vicky Cristina Barcelona is Woody Allen's first film in Spain where Barcelona stood as a dazzling backdrop with several locations including Passeig de Gràcia and also the Santa Maria Del Mar Church. The plot is about two friends Scarlett Johansson and Rebecca hall, who spend their summer holidays in Barcelona and fall in love with the same painter, Javier Bardem.