Can you visit the Gladiator filming locations?

Yes, these are real, visitable places. Each location below comes with the scene, an exact point on the map, and how to get there.

Film · 2000 · Action · History

Where was Gladiator filmed?

Name: Gladiator
Genre: Action, History
Released: 2000

A betrayed Roman general is sold into slavery and fights his way back through the arena toward revenge. His sunlit home is the Val d'Orcia in Tuscany, and the desert province of Zucchabar is the mud-brick village of Aït Benhaddou in Morocco.

2 locations across 2 destinations

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Tuscany, Italy

1 spot

nature·Tuscany

Val d'Orcia

The rolling wheat fields and lone cypresses are Maximus's sunlit memory of home, the Elysium he longs to return to.

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Ouarzazate, Morocco

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landmark·Ouarzazate

Aït Benhaddou

The fortified mud-brick ksar rising from the desert is the slave town of Zucchabar, where Maximus first fights.

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Good to know

Where was Gladiator filmed?: Gladiator was filmed in Tuscany, Ouarzazate.
Can you visit the Gladiator filming locations?: Yes, these are real, visitable places. Each location below comes with the scene, an exact point on the map, and how to get there.