With anticipation for season three of The Witcher at an all time high, chatter about the series is reaching a predictable zenith.
Feelings around the show’s future are mixed, due to Henry Cavill’s departure from the role of Geralt of Rivia, but he’s sticking around for one final season. Season three will be Cavill’s last in the role, and audiences are pumped to see the popular actor return for one last outing as the grizzled White Wolf. Word is still out on if viewers will turn up to see Liam Hemsworth take up the mantle for season four of the Netflix series, but in the meantime hype for The Witcher is high.
Quite a few ingredients are required to make a show like The Witcher work, and talented actors are far from the only necessary elements. Costumes, props, storyline, and setting are all vital parts of crafting a well-rounded show, and, while The Witcher lacks in a few areas, it’s certainly not hurting in the location department. The show’s sets and real-life locations are eye-catching and appealing, while some are temporary, or end up reused for other Netflix offerings, some of those gorgeous vistas are nothing but the real deal.
The Witcher filming locations
Filming for The Witcher‘s first three seasons took place across a variety of different locations. For a series like this one, that sports an array of visuals and separate storylines, its necessary to diversify the backdrop, and The Witcher certainly didn’t shy away from changing things up.
In season one, a bulk of the show was filmed at locations across Hungary. While there are plenty of IRL locations featured across the series, quite a few of those iconic scenes are actually filmed at Mafilm Studios near Budapest. The studio provided sets for the exterior of Stregobor’s palace, and other studios — like Origo Studios, which is likewise located near Budapest — supplied other recognizable sets, adding life to scenes filmed in or around Cintra and the interior of castle Vizima.
Various locations in Hungary — like Csákberény village, the Hungarian Open Air Museum, and Monostori Erőd — provided fitting locations for some of The Witcher‘s most iconic scenes, as did a castle in Leobendorf, Austria. Later seasons of the show shifted filming to largely locations in the U.K., but mixed in plenty of extra scenery to keep things interesting. Much of season two featured scenes from Gran Canaria, the third-largest of the Canary Islands in Spain, as well as the islands of La Palma and La Gomera and the Natural Dune Reserve of Maspalomas, but the majority of filming occurred in Farnham, Cumbria, and northern England.
The same is true for season three of the series, despite the occasionally featured remote location. Some of those stunning moments from the show’s current offering of content come from areas like Poland’s Ogrodzieniec Castle, but many of those lovely areas can be located within the U.K.’s own borders.