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Rome, Open City (1945)

Where Rome, Open City says it takes place, and where it was really shot.

The Gestapo headquarters was a theatre set, the church interior is in another church, and the street where Pina runs is in the Pigneto

Scenes and places

The chase around the Spanish Steps (1944)

Luigi, a Resistance leader hiding under another name, slips away from the SS as they sweep the streets near the square. The chase over the rooftops sets up the hunt that drives the whole film.

Set in Piazza di Spagna — Luigi, hunted by the SS, runs for the rooftops around the square. Google Maps · Apple Maps

A grand Baroque square at the foot of the Spanish Steps, in the centre of Rome.

Filmed at Piazza di Spagna (Piazza di Spagna, Rome, Italy) — German troops are shown in the square; location from two tourism and film-location pages. Google Maps · Apple Maps

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Filmed at Building at Piazza di Spagna 51, corner of Via Frattina (Piazza di Spagna · Via Frattina, Rome, Italy) — The boarding-house roof the hero flees across; one tourism page names the building, coordinates are the square's. Google Maps · Apple Maps

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The apartment raid on Via Montecuccoli (1944)

Major Bergmann has the building raided. Luigi slips out again, but Francesco is arrested and thrown in a truck. Pina, Francesco's pregnant fiancée, sees it happen.

Set in Francesco and Pina's apartment building — The block where Luigi hides with Francesco and Pina, until the Nazis raid it. Google Maps · Apple Maps

A working-class street north of Pigneto in eastern Rome, on the Neorealist film walk.

Filmed at Via Raimondo Montecuccoli 17, Pigneto (Pigneto · Via Raimondo Montecuccoli, Rome, Italy) — Exterior of the apartment building; the address and coordinates come from the Italian tourism site, with three pages agreeing. Google Maps · Apple Maps

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Pina runs after the truck (1944)

Pina sees Francesco hauled off and breaks through the cordon, screaming his name. Don Pietro, in the building on another errand, sees it too.

Set in The street outside the building — The street where Pina breaks through the cordon after the truck carrying Francesco. Google Maps · Apple Maps

The same Pigneto street, one of the best-known locations of Italian Neorealism.

Filmed at Via Raimondo Montecuccoli (front and side views) (Pigneto · Via Raimondo Montecuccoli, Rome, Italy) — The same street, filmed from two angles for the run after the truck. Google Maps · Apple Maps

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Don Pietro's church (1944)

Don Pietro takes in the hunted men and carries money and messages for the Resistance. He is a priest who acts, not only preaches.

Set in Don Pietro's parish church — The priest's church, where he helps hide money and messages for the partisans; the film gives no street.

A parish church in eastern Rome; the inside shots were made in another church across the city.

Filmed at Chiesa di Sant'Elena, Via Casilina 205 (exterior) (Via Casilina, Rome, Italy) — Exterior of the church shown in the film. Google Maps · Apple Maps

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Filmed at Santa Maria dell'Orto, Via Anicia (interior) (Trastevere · Via Anicia, Rome, Italy) — The church interior was filmed in a different church, in Trastevere. Google Maps · Apple Maps

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The partisans stop the prisoner convoy (1944)

Partisans stop the truck carrying Francesco and other prisoners. Most of the prisoners escape, and Francesco finds Luigi again.

Set in A road on the edge of Rome — A road outside the centre where the partisans attack the German convoy. Google Maps · Apple Maps

A planned 1930s district in southern Rome, built for the 1942 world fair that never took place.

Filmed at EUR district (Via delle Tre Fontane bridge) (EUR · Via delle Tre Fontane, Rome, Italy) — Wikidata lists the EUR district as a filming place; a film-location page puts the ambush on a bridge with the Palazzo della Civiltà Italiana in view. No exact point. Google Maps · Apple Maps

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The Gestapo headquarters (1944)

Bergmann has Luigi and Don Pietro brought in, and wants everything out of them before dawn. The questioning is done in front of the priest.

Set in Gestapo headquarters, Rome — Bergmann's headquarters, where the captured men are held and questioned.

One of only four interior sets built for the film, since the studio at Cinecittà was out of use.

The open field below St. Peter's (1944)

The parish altar boys gather at the edge of an open field, with Rome and the dome of St Peter's behind them.

Set in An open field outside the city — A bare patch of ground with the dome of St Peter's behind. Google Maps · Apple Maps

A hill-top fort in north-west Rome built in the 1880s, with a view of St Peter's.

Filmed at Caserma Arnaldo Ulivelli, Forte Trionfale (Forte Trionfale, Rome, Italy) — The final scene was shot inside the old fort; the coordinate is for the fort, not the barracks. Google Maps · Apple Maps

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Characters

• Luigi Ferraris — A communist leader of the Resistance who hides under the name Giorgio Manfredi.
• Pina — Francesco's pregnant fiancée, who helps hide Luigi.
• Don Pietro — A Catholic priest who carries money and messages for the partisans.

Questions answered on the map

• Where did Pina run after the truck in Rome, Open City?
• Where was the Gestapo headquarters in Rome, Open City filmed?