The City Council of Lloret de Mar (Selva) will launch this coming July the guided tours of the scenes of the filming of ‘House of the Dragon’. HBO fiction chose the gardens of Santa Clotilde to locate part of the exteriors of the King’s Landing palace. Now, visitors will be able to recreate some of those scenes by walking through the real setting and comparing them with images from the series.
The Santa Clotilde gardens hosted the filming of various scenes from the ‘House of the Dragon’ series in the fall of 2021. For ten days the gardens were closed to the public, although at that time no details were given of what the production was that was being recorded.
Now, the municipality of Lloret de Mar wants to take advantage of the success of this series to develop “shooting tourism”. The manager of Lloret Turismo, Elizabeth Keegan, recalled that since the Lloret Film Office was founded, some forty films and series have been filmed in the Costa Brava municipality.
After the series was broadcast in autumn 2022, the Lloret de Mar City Council has decided to take advantage of the popularity of fiction to create a guided tour of the gardens where some scenes were filmed. It will be carried out in a “hybrid format” that combines the guided and the dramatized tour.
The goal is for people to see the scenes that were the set of the first season of ‘House of the Dragon’. To do this, visitors will walk through the locations that were used for filming and at the same time they will view the images of the series so that they can compare how it looked on television and how it is in reality.
In most spaces, the modifications have been rather few and can be easily recognized. Those interested in making the visits will be able to tour the gardens of Santa Clotilde every Friday from the month of July. In addition, the Heritage Area of ​​the Lloret de Mar City Council has prepared various elements of scenery that “are part of the imaginary” of the world of ‘Game of Thrones’ and ‘House of the Dragon’.
With this scenery, the intention is that visitors can “create their own content” related to the series and post it on social networks. Keegan, who did not want to give more details about this scenery to keep the surprise, recalled that through the content that visitors post on the networks, they will be able to promote this new tourist product.
