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Athens

capital and largest city of Greece

🇬🇷 Greece · 37.9842, 23.7281

Athens is recorded as a filming location for 3 productions. Wikidata records these shoots at town level — somewhere in Athens, rather than at one identified spot. Wikipedia names it for 9 more. 2 video games are also set here.

“All of the main towns are named after historic towns of Ancient Greece, and exhibit some of their essential characteristics – Amphipolis (birthplace of Xena ), Potidaea (birthplace of Gabrielle ), Athens (birthplace of Joxer ), Corinth, Delphi, and Cirra (birthplace of Callisto ) which was burnt to the ground by Xena's army.”

Xena: Warrior Princess (1995–) · Wikipedia

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Movies and TV series filmed in Athens

Crimes of the Future 2022
Maestro 2022–
The Counterfeit Coin 1955

Filmed here, per Wikipedia

Productions whose English Wikipedia article names Athens as somewhere it was shot, with no matching statement on Wikidata. Weaker evidence than the statements above, so it gets its own list — each production’s own page links the exact section the claim comes from.

Xena: Warrior Princess 1995–
In the Fade 2017
“Filming for In the Fade began on 20 October 2016 and ended on 21 November 2016, with filming locations in Hamburg in St. Pauli and Alsterdorf, as well as in Greece, where the final scene was filmed at Schinias beach in Athens.” Wikipedia
Boat Trip 2002
“The film was shot in Summer 2001, primarily on the Mediterranean cruise ship traveling from Cologne, Germany to Athens, Greece.” Wikipedia
The Burglars 1971
Tehran 2020–
“The series was shot entirely on location in Athens.” Wikipedia
Ruby Cairo 1992
Bortført 2021–
“Filming for the second season is taking place in Athens.” Wikipedia
To Nisi 2010–2011
“Cretan director Thodoris Papadoulakis convinced Mega Channel to keep Athens out of the filming by having the entire series shot on location in Crete, arguing that Spinalonga recreates a natural setting.” Wikipedia
A Bullet Through the Heart 1966

Set here

Video games that take place here. A game is filmed nowhere, so this is where the story is set rather than where a camera stood — a different claim from everything above, and kept under its own heading for that reason.

Set here, per Wikipedia

Games whose English Wikipedia article says they are set in Athens, where Wikidata’s narrative-location statement stops at the country. Still a setting and not a shoot, and still a sentence rather than a statement — two steps from the strongest evidence on this atlas, and labelled at both.

Assassin's Creed Odyssey 2018
“As the game is set during the Peloponnesian War, Athens and Sparta control various parts of Greece.” Wikipedia
Tekken 1994
Tekken 2 1995
Rad Racer 1987
Pang 1989

Filming locations nearby

Frequently asked questions

What was filmed in Athens?

12 productions are recorded as filmed in Athens, including Crimes of the Future (2022), Maestro (2022–) and The Counterfeit Coin (1955). 9 of the credits come from Wikipedia articles rather than Wikidata statements and are labelled per Wikipedia.

Which is the best known production filmed in Athens?

Crimes of the Future (2022), covered by 23 Wikipedia language editions, which is how this atlas ranks fame.

Where is Athens?

Athens is in Greece, at 37.9842, 23.7281. The day trip guide for Athens lists 13 filming locations within 100 km.

What other filming locations are near Athens?

Acropolis of Athens, Piraeus, Fyli Municipality, Kallithea and 1 more, all within about 40 km and listed on this page.

Where does this information come from?

Filming location statements on Wikidata, joined to the place's coordinates and Wikipedia article, plus places named in Wikipedia articles, which are labelled per Wikipedia wherever they appear. The photograph is from Wikimedia Commons, by Thomas Wolf, www.foto-tw.de, CC BY-SA 3.0 de.

Planning a visit? Filming locations near Athens — 13 places within 100 km, with distances and directions.