Game of Thrones Behind The Scenes on The Journey To Spain

We talked yesterday about the numbers and the details that went into the making of Game of Thrones this season, including the moving of the majority of non-Irish based filming from Croatia to Spain. Now the show’s YouTube channel has released a brand new Behind the Scenes video called “Journey to Spain” where they discuss some of the major locations in which they filmed. We get a few confirming glimpses of actors in locations where we were pretty sure they filmed from reports, but now we know they were. Check it out.

Some of this stuff is just incredible to look at. The Castillo de Zafra, for instance, has been one I’ve been madly in love with ever since we first saw it, and I cannot *wait* to get to see on screen. (Also, thank you show, for confirming that Isaac Hempstead-Wright was actually there and will be present in that flashback scene they filmed.) The Mesa Roldan as well, which is the first location you see Peter Dinklage filming in front of, is another really remarkable location the show got to use.

Look at this post, look in the mirror
You see the spoilers and you close your eyes
Look at the warning, not to scroll down
Who’s gonna spoil here when everybody dies

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But though I don’t want to be that person, I can’t help myself. Yesterday, in my numbers post, you’ll note I said they filmed in six locations. This video only says they filmed in five.

That’s not true. There were six. They skipped one. Right after they filmed in Girona (which stood in for not only King’s Landing, but Braavos and Oldtown), before they moved on to Bardenas Reales (which is where they filmed Dany’s time as a Dothraki prisoner before she is taken to Vaes Dothrak), there is a location where the show filmed that the video just doesn’t even mention. The Castell de Santa Florentina, in Barcelona (pictured above.) It was used to film the seat of House Tarly in Horn Hill. Though the Castle actually closed down for two weeks in order to accommodate filming, they only filmed in this historical site for three days. But they *did* film here. And as you can see, it’s a gorgeous location, one you would think they would want to boast about.

Six locations. But for some reason, they don’t want to show Sam’s home. (Which, come to think of it hasn’t been shown in the trailers either. Why?) Curiouser and curiouser.

Via http://winteriscoming.net/2016/04/13/game-of-thrones-behind-the-scenes-on-the-journey-to-spain/