Where was The Canterbury Tales filmed?
1972 Italian-French film by Pier Paolo Pasolini
The Canterbury Tales (1972) was filmed at 15 places in Italy and the United Kingdom, including Cambridge, Mount Etna, Bath, Maidstone, Hastings and Canterbury Cathedral. Every place comes from Wikidata.
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Filming locations
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Landscapes & nature
Mount Etna
Italy
Active stratovolcano on the east coast of Sicily, Italy
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Towns & cities
Cambridge
England
City in Cambridgeshire, England
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Towns & cities
Lavenham
England
Village and civil parish in Babergh, Suffolk, England
“In 1971 part of Pier Paolo Pasolini’s film The Canterbury Tales was recorded here, with the village representing medieval London.” Wikipedia
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Towns & cities
Bath
England
City in Somerset, England, United Kingdom
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Landmarks & buildings
Wells Cathedral
England
Anglican cathedral in Wells, Somerset, England, UK
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Towns & cities
Rye
England
Town in East Sussex, England
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Castles & palaces
Layer Marney Tower
England
Grade I listed country house in Layer Marney, Essex, England, UK
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Towns & cities
Warwick
England
County town of Warwickshire, England
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Towns & cities Hastings
England
Town in East Sussex, on the south coast of England
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Towns & cities
Maidstone
England
County town of Kent, England
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Landmarks & buildings
Canterbury Cathedral
England
Cathedral in Canterbury, Kent, England, founded in 597
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Towns & cities
Chipping Campden
England
Town in Gloucestershire, England
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Towns & cities
Rolvenden
England
Village and civil parish in Ashford District, Kent, England, UK
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Towns & cities
St Osyth
England
Village and civil parish in northeast Essex, England, UK
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Towns & cities
Battle Abbey
England
Benedictine abbey in Battle, East Sussex, England, UK
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Also per Wikipedia's article
The Wikipedia article names 25 more places. Each links to the sentence that says so.
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Towns & cities
London
England
Capital and largest city of England and the United Kingdom
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Towns & cities
Rome
Italy
Capital and largest city of Italy
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Landscapes & nature
River Thames
England
River in southern England
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Towns & cities
Southwark
England
District of Central London, England
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Towns & cities
Wapping
England
District of the London Borough of Tower Hamlets
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Landmarks & buildings
St John's College
England
Constituent college of the University of Cambridge
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Landmarks & buildings
Trinity College
England
Constituent college of the University of Cambridge in England
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Landmarks & buildings
Lavenham Guildhall
England
Grade I listed local museum in Babergh, United Kingdom
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Towns & cities
Wells
England
Cathedral city in Somerset, England, UK
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Studios & sets
Safa Palatino Studios
Italy
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Towns & cities
Bradford-on-Avon
England
Town in Wiltshire, England, UK
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Towns & cities Canterbury
England
Cathedral city in Kent, England
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Landscapes & nature
Romney Marsh
England
Wetland area in Kent and East Sussex, England
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Towns & cities
Fairfield
England
Village in Kent, England, UK
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Streets & squares
Vicars' Close
England
Street in Wells, England, one of the oldest surviving residential streets in Europe
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Towns & cities
St Osyth's Priory
England
Grade I listed priory in St Osyth, Essex, England, UK
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Towns & cities
Battle
England
Town and civil parish in the local government district of Rother in East Sussex, England
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Landmarks & buildings
John Webb's Mill, Thaxted
England
Grade II* listed tower mill in Thaxted, Essex, England, UK
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Landmarks & buildings The Grange Barn
England
Grade I listed barn in Coggeshall, Essex, England, UK
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Towns & cities
Chigwell
England
Town and civil parish in Epping Forest, Essex, UK
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Towns & cities
Coggeshall
England
Town in Essex, England, UK
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Castles & palaces
Winchester Palace
England
Twelfth-century palace in London
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Streets & squares
Trinity Lane
England
Street in Cambridge, England, UK
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Landmarks & buildings Rolvenden Windmill
England
Windmill in Rolvenden, Kent, England, UK
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Landmarks & buildings
The George Inn
England
Grade I listed pub in Norton St Philip, Somerset, United Kingdom
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Recorded only at country level
Also filmed in Sicily, but the exact places are not known, so they are not on the map.
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