Details surrounding the shooting schedule for the Alcázar gardens in Seville, Spain, are just starting to emerge, with local sources reporting that the site will be partially or, on some days, completely closed to visitors in early October.
Details after the jump!
Filming starts on October 6, at the Mercury Pond and the Gallery of the Grotesque (pictured above), and will continue at this location through October 9, and then again on October 12. Incidentally, the pond itself will be dyed blue by the production team.
The Mercury Pond and Gallery of the Grotesque is just a small portion of the total gardens complex. You can see the area sectioned off for filming highlighted in red.
Then, on October 10 and 11, filming spreads throughout the entirety of the gardens.
Finally, from October 14 through the 18th, the entirety of the top half of the gardens area will be closed. This includes both the Baths of Maria de Padilla and the Hall of Ambassadors (both pictured below).
After the 18th, the gardens will, as far as we can see, will reopen for visitors- though that’s always subject to change.
Shylah: So, it looks like we’re going to be seeing a lot of Dorne, or, at least, a nice variation of locations within it. I’m really excited to see them incorporating the Baths and the Hall of Ambassadors into the shoot- both of those areas are incredibly beautiful.
Jodor
I see what you did there. Jajaja… 🙂
I visited the Gardens this summer and there are so many places they could film in !
I wonder if the Alcázar will also serve as Sunspear, not only the Water Gardens.
Also, I fear we won’t see Doran, Obara, Nym or Tyene at all, since it seems the set will be closed pretty thoroughly in this case.
Luka Nieto,
I believe the show will place the gardens in Sunspear – is there any reason to have two seperate locations?
Awesome! 🙂
Ser Hodor Halfmast,
hee, muy bueno!
What a gorgeous place that is – it will make a splendid Dorne!
My country… GREAT!!!
Hodorne
https://www.youtube.com/watch?list=UUuwUfM8E79h2sqp34Fut6kw&v=zoh_2nF-Rxs&feature=player_embedded
Anyone seen this interview with Charles Dance? He basically says that we havent seen the last of Tywin (im just expecting it to mean that we will probably see his funeral or something)
Walter Harrow,
Or in a flashback.
Woooooow !!! I’m certin he meant his funeral !
Walter Harrow,
I’m pretty sure it’ll be just the funeral, not a flashback or anything like that.
LukaNieto,
On the other hand, isn’t there a Cersei flashback present in the show? Or was that rumour disbanded?
Yes, there is a caracter cast with the name ‘Maggy the frog’. In the books she is a fortune teller that is telling young Cersei and her friend some things about their future. I won’t spoil what she says to them.
So there is a flash back moment for Cersei this season, otherwise I don’t get why they cast Maggy the frog. So maybe he is in this flashback too. But I personally think it will be about his funeral which runs through some chapters in the book.
Rutger,
It is also possible, that the present day Cersei goes to a fortune teller. But it would be great to have a flashback.
I found new pics from the set in Sibenik on facebook.
(photos by Jakov Gracin)
https://scontent-b-fra.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xap1/v/t1.0-9/s720x720/10665112_10204941067315886_1893777631108939360_n.jpg?oh=69d7e8609705512367761f65fda274bc&oe=54CF31C8
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Some pictures from Sibenik, they’re from today.
https://scontent-b-fra.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xap1/v/t1.0-9/s720x720/10665112_10204941067315886_1893777631108939360_n.jpg?oh=69d7e8609705512367761f65fda274bc&oe=54CF31C8
https://fbcdn-sphotos-f-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-xap1/v/t1.0-9/s720x720/10622880_10204941068635919_5886238657158833766_n.jpg?oh=230423f1711d3f200da148f94cba9f27&oe=54CAA87F&__gda__=1422161860_8374444aec87b0456cc84152ea85ed60
https://scontent-a-fra.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xaf1/v/t1.0-9/10492091_10204941070995978_3694943770683880471_n.jpg?oh=f58bd877da0ce9e47cc5800340f943b3&oe=54C8CC36
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Lots of Masters, so I think it’s safe to think that the set there is used as a slave market.
Gravemaster,
There will never be a straight-up flashback in the show. For one, it’d be weird if they started now. But there is leeway on that rule thanks to visions (Bran’s sight) and dreams (Sansa revisited her attempted rape in a dream, just before her first menstruation.) So I imagine the season will open with Cersei dreaming about that event. I don’t imagine Tywin will be in it, though. I’m pretty sure Charles Dance was just talking about playing Tywin’s corpse.
WTF TYWIN IS DEAD???
Some pictures from today shooting in St. John’s Fortress: http://imgur.com/a/6kTFo
Cami,
Posted them 1 hour ago, but apparently my comment is still awaiting moderation.
Sorry about that. You’re still the winner.
Mine is the Furry,
He didn’t disappear in a puff of smoke. There will be a funeral, just as with Joffrey and just as it also happened in the books.
As for St. John’s Fortress, it is Meereen, as expected. The Great Masters and the gladiator-types confirm it is a training ground for pit fighters, too.
Few more pictures
http://www.24sata.hr/strane-zvijezde/maskirani-glumci-u-sibeniku-na-setu-serije-igra-prijestolja-385039
🙂
LukaNieto,
That makes sense, I didn’t even consider that those guys were pit fighters. I was so sure that the set there was supposed to stand for
Balerion The Cat,
They seem too battle-ready for that, and the set has many instruments that are obviously for physical training and fighting.
Sorry, because of the many links the posts got stuck in the filter, I fished them out now.
Walter Harrow,
Maybe he will be a witness of the