The real Solitano village in Emily in Paris Season 5 and all the locations in Rome and Italy

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In the new season five, Emily in Paris Rome introduces Solitano, the perfectly charming village Italians don’t want you to know about.

Solitano

However, the secret town of Solitano is fictional and based on two different magnificent locations near Rome.

Here is our spoiler-free guide to the filming locations of Emily in Paris Season 5 in Rome. After the Solitano section, the locations are listed in order of their first appearance.


Solitano, Italy

Solitano Italy
In the fourth episode, we finally see Marcello’s family village, Solitano, in all its splendor.

The Muratori town was filmed at Borgo di Gregoriopoli, also known as Borgo di Ostia Antica, a small walled medieval settlement at the edge of the Ostia Antica ruins.
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Emily in Rome
Ostia Antica was ancient Rome’s principal port, founded at the mouth of the Tiber.

Today, its vast Roman ruins make a great day trip, located only about 30 minutes from Rome by train.

After the fall of Rome, Ostia was gradually abandoned and remained populated only in a very small area around the Giulio II Castle, which appears in the background of several shots.


Solitano Emily in Paris
However, the aerial establishing shot of Solitano was filmed in Pienza, a Renaissance hill town in Tuscany, redesigned in the 15th century as an ideal humanist city.

The location where influencer Princess Jane drops the pin at the end of the episode would be more or less here in Pienza.

Pienza was recently featured in the new George Clooney movie Jay Kelly, and also in La Dolce Villa, doubling as another fictional town, Montezara.
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The Emily in Paris Rome

Emily in Paris Rome
Emily’s apartment is located in a palazzo overlooking the city at Piazza Costaguti in Rome’s Historic Centre.
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Agence Grateau
The new Agence Grateau headquarters exterior in Rome is a superb building on a corner of Piazza Mincio in the Quartiere Coppedè.

Most of the houses in this beautiful neighborhood, built in the early 20th century, are famous for their eclectic, dreamlike style, blending Art Nouveau (Liberty) with medieval, Baroque, and classical elements.
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La Dolce Emily
In the first episode, "La Dolce Emily," Sylvie is with Giancarlo at the rooftop Zuma Japanese restaurant in Palazzo Fendi in central Rome.

The modern structure in the background is the Lanterna di Fuksas, a striking glass-and-steel design within the former Palazzo dell’Unione Militare, used as a multi-purpose cultural and event space.
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Bavazza
Geographically, it doesn’t make sense that Emily is taking the bus near the Pyramid of Caius Cestius in the Ostiense area, since both her apartment and Grateau’s office are located further north.

This monument is actually a 1st‑century BC elaborate tomb of a wealthy Roman magistrate, which has stood for over 20 centuries.
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Emily in Paris Muratori
On the way to the truffle-hunting spot, Marcello drives his Fiat 124 Sport Spider coupé through the Gregorian Bridge in Tivoli and the Park of the Aqueducts just outside Rome.

According to Tudum, the countryside scenes were filmed near the town of San Polo dei Cavalieri, while the interior of the Muratori family home was shot in a villa in the Rignano Flaminio area.
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Osteria del Barbiere
The nighttime restaurant scene with Sylvie was filmed at Osteria del Barbiere on Piazza di San Simeone.
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Emily in Paris Italy
The party was filmed at Villa Parisi, a superb late-Renaissance palazzo located between Frascati and Monte Porzio Catone in the Lazio region.

This is the same location where the 2020 Netflix romantic comedy Love Wedding Repeat was filmed.
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Stravinskij cocktail bar Rome
The lunch with the Muratori in the second episode, "Got to be Real," was filmed at the Stravinskij cocktail bar in the Hotel de Russie.

The hotel is located next to the famous Piazza del Popolo, known for its two nearly symmetrical churches.
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Fendi headquarters Rome
Fendi moved its headquarters in 2015 to the Palazzo della Civiltà Italiana, also known as the Square Colosseum, in Rome’s EUR district.

Built in the late 1930s, it is a monumental example of Italian Rationalist architecture, symbolizing classical Roman forms in a modern style.
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La Posta Vecchia Emily
The Bavazzatini launch party is held at La Posta Vecchia, a luxury seaside hotel in Palo Laziale near Ladispoli, about 40 minutes northwest of Rome on the Tyrrhenian coast.

Housed in a 17th-century villa once owned by nobility and later restored by oil magnate Jean Paul Getty, the hotel is located next to the Odescalchi Castle.
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Emily in Paris Fendi
Palazzo Fendi, originally belonging to a noble family, was restored by the prestigious fashion house in 2005.
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Albergo del Convento
In the third episode, "Intimissimi Issues," Luc moves to a nuns’ convent with a curfew, the fictional Albergo del Convento, filmed in an old farmhouse in the Aventino neighborhood.

The building survived because its garden and structure retain some ruins of the Terme Deciane, the baths built by Emperor Decius in the 3rd century AD.
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Emily in Rome theater
Although the exterior of the Ballando show with Mindy shows the Teatro dell’Opera di Roma, these scenes were actually filmed at the Théâtre de Paris in the French capital.
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Il Palazzo Normandy Le Chantier hotel
But the rehearsal room is located in Paris. This is the Il Palazzo showroom at the Normandy Le Chantier hotel near the Louvre, in the 1st arrondissement.
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Piazza Campitelli in Tivoli
The staircase for Sylvie’s commercial was filmed at Piazza Campitelli in Tivoli, located about 30 km (19 miles) east of Rome.
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Ciampini Bistrot
The street bar in this scene with Luc was filmed at Ciampini Bistrot, located on the corner of Via del Leoncino and Via della Fontanella di Borghese in central Rome.
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Trajan's Market
Presented as the world’s first shopping mall, Mercati di Traiano, or Trajan’s Market, is a vast complex of ancient Roman buildings constructed in the early 2nd century AD that housed offices, shops, and administrative spaces.

However, just before this scene, an establishing shot appears that has nothing to do with this location: the ruins of the Sanctuary of Fortuna Primigenia in Palestrina, a town located about 35 km (22 miles) east of Rome, in the Lazio region.
Image courtesy of Netflix - Maps: Trajan’s Market / Sanctuary


Keyhole Gran Priorato di Roma del Sovrano Militare Ordine di Malta
In the fourth episode, "Rome Has Fallen," is featured the keyhole of the Gran Priorato di Roma del Sovrano Militare Ordine di Malta on the Aventine Hill, one of Rome’s most famous hidden viewpoints.

Popularized by Instagrammers and travel bloggers, looking through the door reveals a perfectly aligned view of the dome of St. Peter’s Basilica, framed by manicured hedges and symbolically showing three states at once: Italy, the Order of Malta, and Vatican City
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Rome Has Fallen
The Agence Grateau team decides it’s time for a change at Settimo, the rooftop bar and restaurant of Sofitel Roma Villa Borghese.
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