CINECITTA

The Cinecittà or Cinema City is the home of a great number of both Italian and international films. It's a large film studio in south-east Rome that was founded in 1937 by Benito Mussolini and his head of cinema Luigi Freddi mostly for propaganda purposes. The complex was designed as a complete centre of production, training, organizing and post-production. It is in these studios where several well-known films have been shot, such as A Roman Holiday, Ben Hur, La Dolce Vita, Cleopatra, Romeo and Juliet, Gangs of New York, the Passion of the Christ (Mel Gibson’s version) and more. As you can see, the studios are not only used for Italian film productions, but also for major American films. So it is very likely that a movie that you enjoyed was filmed in these studios!