La Foce, between Florence and Rome and overlooking the bucolic Val d’Orcia, is where Caroline’s alfresco drinks party takes place. These terraced, formal gardens are open to visitors on certain days from May to November. The Villa La Foce is where most of the Roy family stay. The yellow-hued property is available to rent from €35,000 (US$39,400) a week, FitzRoy says.

Caroline’s son Kendall Roy (Jeremy Strong) and his children stay in one of the estate’s other properties, Belvedere Piccolo, which includes that swimming pool and can be rented for around €1,650 a week.

The wedding ceremony takes place at the 17th century Villa Cetinale, near Siena. The 13-bedroom Baroque-style villa is also available to rent from €35,000 a week. The spectacular gardens, where the reception takes place, are open to visitors by appointment when the villa is not let.

Caroline’s “bachelorette party” takes place in hilltop Cortona, specifically the small town’s Piazza della Republica. Cortona is packed with churches and museums. About an hour’s drive away, in Pienza, the Roy siblings are filmed have a tense meeting at the La Terrazza del Chiostro restaurant, where panoramic views from the terrace over Val d’Orcia and Mount Amiata are the main draw.

Lake Como

Tech tycoon Lukas Matsson’s (Alexander Skarsgard) luxurious lair is the Villa La Cassinella on the western shore of Lake Como. Roy patriarch Logan (Brian Cox) and his son Roman (Kieran Culkin) arrive by helicopter at the villa’s private landing pad and take a boat across the lake to Cassinella.

“They arrived as any guest would; you cannot arrive by car – the only other alternative is by sea plane,” FitzRoy says. Although it costs upwards of €130,000 a week to rent, FitzRoy says the property gets booked up years in advance (tech tycoons being among the visitors, no doubt).

Filming took place along this stretch of Lake Como for Ridley Scott’s House of Gucci movie, too. Villa Balbiano, built in the 16th century, stands in for the house of Aldo Gucci (Al Pacino), who died in 1990.

When it’s not being used as a film set, the waterside villa is available for private rental at €175,000 per week. Inside are original frescoes, museum-worthy antiques and six suites, for which hotel designer Jacques Garcia is responsible.

Don’t look for the villa from The Morning Show here, though. In the second season, shamed anchorman Mitch Kessler (Steve Carell) hides out in what we’re led to believe is a grand villa on the shores of Lake Como. Because of the pandemic, however, filming of the villa and in-town shots actually took place at a school in California.

Executive producer Mimi Leder told Variety she hired a drone unit in Lake Como “to shoot from all angles and then we placed our villa in”.

Milan

In House of Gucci, Rodolfo’s (Jeremy Irons) imagined home is the 1930s Villa Necchi Campiglio. The real Rodolfo did live in Milan but in a flat on Corso Monforte, according to the 2001 book The House of Gucci, on which the film is loosely based. Set in private gardens in the centre of Milan, Villa Necchi Campiglio is now a museum full of artwork and period furniture.

In the film, Maurizio Gucci (Adam Driver) and Patrizia Reggiana (Lady Gaga) visit the gloriously ornate Galleria Vittorio Emanuele II shopping arcade, between the Duomo church and Teatro alla Scala opera house. They pass Savini, a restaurant Patrizia says is “too expensive” but which has been a Milanese hang-out for composers and opera singers since 1867.

When this writer visited a few years ago, there was a quaintly named “Lunch for Ladies in Shopping” set menu, and Savini’s website currently states “an elegant dress code is appreciated”.

Rome

Both Pacino and Gaga’s characters visit the real-life Gucci store on Via Condotti, near the Spanish Steps, which is packed with designer boutiques. The Guccis opened their first shop outside their native Florence in Rome, although the current boutique is a few doors down from the original.

The wedding of Maurizio and Patrizia was filmed at the picturesque Church of Santa Maria in Campitelli, close to the Tiber river, although the real-life couple were married in Milan.

Gressoney

In the film, Maurizio is shown evading the police on his motorbike and crossing the snowy Swiss border, heading for St Moritz. Filming actually took place in the Italian Alps at the towns Gressoney-Saint-Jean and Gressoney-La-Trinité, in the Aosta Valley, a region of northwest Italy bordered by France and Switzerland.

Although scenic, these resorts are far less glitzy than St Moritz and the runs are for advanced skiers only.

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