🏙 Towns & cities
Monastir
Tunisian town
🇹🇳 Tunisia · 35.7780, 10.8262
Monastir is recorded as a filming location for 1 production. Wikidata records these shoots at town level — somewhere in Monastir, rather than at one identified spot. Wikipedia names it for 2 more.
1 place inside Monastir has a page of its own — listed below. Everything shot at it is already named above, recorded against Monastir as well.
“The film was shot on location in Monastir, Tunisia, which allowed the production to reuse sets from Franco Zeffirelli's Jesus of Nazareth (1977).”
Movies filmed in Monastir
Filmed here, per Wikipedia
Productions whose English Wikipedia article names Monastir 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.
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Jesus of Nazareth
1977–
“The city of Monastir in Tunisia served as 1st-century Jerusalem.” Wikipedia
- Moawiya
Filming locations inside Monastir
1 place inside Monastir, with a page of its own. Every production shot at it is already listed above, because Wikidata records it against Monastir too.
Filming locations nearby
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🏙 Towns & cities
Sousse
🇹🇳 Tunisia
city in Tunisia
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🏰 Castles & palaces
Ribat of Monastir
🇹🇳 Tunisia
fort in Tunisia
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🏙 Towns & cities
Port El Kantaoui
🇹🇳 Tunisia
seaside resort in Tunisia
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🏙 Towns & cities
Mahdia
🇹🇳 Tunisia
place in Mahdia Governorate, Tunisia
Frequently asked questions
What was filmed in Monastir?
3 productions are recorded as filmed in Monastir, including Monty Python’s Life of Brian (1979), Jesus of Nazareth (1977–) and Moawiya. 2 of the credits come from Wikipedia articles rather than Wikidata statements and are labelled per Wikipedia.
Which is the best known production filmed in Monastir?
Monty Python’s Life of Brian (1979), covered by 60 Wikipedia language editions, which is how this atlas ranks fame.
Where is Monastir?
Monastir is in Tunisia, at 35.7780, 10.8262.
What other filming locations are near Monastir?
Sousse, Ribat of Monastir, Port El Kantaoui and Mahdia, 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 Gorik Francois, CC BY-SA 2.0.