August // 2026
Spain built the Kingdom of Corona: Where Disney's Tangled was filmed
Tangled
A full-scale tower under construction in Alicante. A Gothic cathedral in Girona dressed with blue and gold tapestries. Horses crossing an 11th-century Romanesque bridge in Besalú. And one of the largest fortresses in Europe, in Figueres, standing in for a fairy-tale kingdom. Disney's live-action Tangled has been moving through Spain since late June 2026, this is where the cameras went.
Disney's live-action Tangled — directed by Michael Gracey (The Greatest Showman, Better Man), written by Jennifer Kaytin Robinson (Thor: Love and Thunder) and produced by Kristin Burr (Cruella, Freaky Friday) — began principal photography in Spain on June 24, 2026. Filming began in Alicante and is expected to continue for approximately three months, with the production moving between multiple Spanish locations. Teagan Croft plays Rapunzel. Milo Manheim is Flynn Rider. Kathryn Hahn is Mother Gothel. The film was previously titled Rapunzel before reverting to Tangled.
The central filming location is Ciudad de la Luz Studios in Alicante — one of the largest studio complexes in Europe. Rapunzel's Tower was constructed here — a practical set rather than a digital creation, built with cranes and wooden flats, visible in set photographs that circulated late June.
San Martín de Valdeiglesias, Tarragona and Girona
San Martín de Valdeiglesias — a small municipality in the Community of Madrid, known for its medieval castle and surrounding reservoir landscape — was used for exterior shots including scenes around Rapunzel's Tower.
Production moved to Tarragona in Catalonia from July 1 to July 10.
From July 20 to August 3, the production took over Girona's Barri Vell — the medieval old town — surrounding itself with stone stairways, ancient city walls and narrow medieval streets. Girona Cathedral, the Archaeological Walk, the Saint Dominic Steps, the Cathedral Gardens and other familiar landmarks were all transformed into parts of Rapunzel's fictional world of Corona.
Set photographs confirmed that the interior of Girona Cathedral was dressed with blue and gold curtains and tapestries adorned with Corona's sun crest. The hill of Sant Domènec was adorned with blue banners bearing a golden sun, the stairs lined with market stalls. A carpet ran down the centre of the stairway, with decorations on every step — the whole ensemble remaking the staircase into the heart of the fictional city of Corona.
While filming continued at the cathedral, the production simultaneously set up additional scenes at the Plaça dels Jurats.
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Figueres and Besalú
After several weeks of building elaborate sets and staging iconic scenes in Girona's cobblestone streets and cathedral, production moved to the massive 550,000-square-metre fortress of Sant Ferran Castle in Figueres — one of the largest fortified structures in Europe.
On July 30 and 31, the medieval town of Besalú also hosted the Disney production crew. Horses, royal guards and extras in 18th-century maiden costumery arrived in the town, with filming taking place on the iconic Pont Vell — Besalú's ancient Romanesque bridge, built in the 11th century and one of the most photographed medieval bridges in Catalonia — and across several ancient cobblestone streets within the town. Both bridge and streets were decorated to represent the fictional kingdom of Corona. Besalú is a small town of fewer than 2,500 people, its medieval old town so completely preserved that it was declared a Historic-Artistic Ensemble in 1966.
Burgos and Álava
Filming is also taking place in Burgos in Castile and León, and in Álava in the Basque Country.
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