Where was The Impossible filmed?

2012 film directed by Juan Antonio Bayona

The Impossible (2012) was filmed in Barcelona and Alicante — 2 recorded filming locations in Spain. Every one is a filming-location statement on Wikidata, not a guess.

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Filming locations

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  🏙 Towns & cities

  Alicante

  🇪🇸 Spain

  city in Valencian Community, Spain

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  🏙 Towns & cities

  Barcelona

  🇪🇸 Spain

  city in Catalonia, Spain

Also per Wikipedia's Production section

Wikipedia’s Production section names 1 more place. A sentence in an article is weaker evidence than a Wikidata statement, so these are listed apart, never mixed into the statement list, and the claim links straight to where it came from.

Recorded only at country level

Wikidata also records this film as shot in Thailand, without saying where. Those statements are true but unmappable — a pin in the middle of a country would claim something nobody wrote — so they are listed here instead of guessed at.

Also shot in these places

• Guy Ritchie's The Covenant 2023
• 15 Years and One Day 2013
• All About My Mother 1999
• Vicky Cristina Barcelona 2008
• Perfume: The Story of a Murderer 2006
• Uncharted 2022
• The Sea Inside 2004
• The Machinist 2004
• The Life of David Gale 2003
• Biutiful 2010
• Buried 2010
• Rec 2007

Set in the same places

• The Mysterious Cities of Gold

More filmed in Spain

• Game of Thrones 2011–2019
• Doctor Who 1963–
• The Good, the Bad and the Ugly 1966
• Star Wars: Episode II – Attack of the Clones 2002
• Money Heist 2017–2021
• Quantum of Solace 2008

Every filming location in Spain →

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