Assassin's Creed Leaps to Ancient Rome and Tuscany

Rome isn't just a backdrop. It's the entire point. Netflix's live-action Assassin's Creed series is filming entirely in Italy — based at Cinecittà Studios, where the production is expanding the existing ancient Rome backlot, including a replica of the Roman Forum. 

Filming started March 9 and runs through October 16. After Cinecittà, the production will also shoot on location across Lazio and Tuscany. 

The Parco Nazionale delle Foreste Casentinesi confirmed to The Florentine that filming linked to Netflix's live-action Assassin's Creed series is currently taking place in the forests around Camaldoli — the remote Tuscan valley home to one of Italy's oldest and most secluded monasteries. 

The ancient Camaldoli forest serves as the wilderness hiding grounds for the Assassin Brotherhood in the series. It's a fitting choice. The Eremo di Camaldoli — a hermitage founded in 1012, buried deep in dense fir and beech forest — radiates exactly the kind of shadowy, centuries-old atmosphere the Assassin's Creed universe runs on. Footage was also filmed at the Monastery of Camaldoli itself.

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