Which Netflix Series Was Filmed in Dubrovnik?

Which Netflix Series Was Filmed in Dubrovnik?

None. No Netflix series was filmed in Dubrovnik. The production that made the city one of the most recognisable places on television is Game of Thrones, which was made for HBO, not Netflix. Visitors very often mix the two up, because both names sit in the same corner of the streaming era, but the King's Landing you saw on screen was HBO's show.

It is an easy confusion to make, and I hear it in the streets most weeks. Someone steps through Pile Gate, looks up at the limestone facades, and says they came because of "that Netflix show with the dragons." The dragons were HBO's. Game of Thrones ran on HBO, and its production teams spent several seasons shooting in Dubrovnik after the show outgrew its original Mediterranean filming base in Malta.

The mix-up matters for one practical reason: if you search for Netflix filming locations in Dubrovnik, you will find tours, guidebooks and listicles that quietly redirect you to Game of Thrones material anyway. Every "screen locations" walk sold in the city today is, in whole or in part, a Game of Thrones walk. There is no separate Netflix trail, because there is no Netflix show to trail.

What Dubrovnik actually has is a single towering screen credit and a city that changed because of it. The Old Town had been a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 1979, inscribed under criteria (i), (iii) and (iv) with a 24.7-hectare property area, long before any camera crew arrived. What the series changed was the volume and the reason for visiting: people now come specifically to stand where Cersei walked, where Joffrey died, and where the Spice King refused a queen. Our Game of Thrones filming locations guide maps every one of those spots in detail.

If you want the screen experience rather than just the trivia, three tours cover it well.

Was Game of Thrones Filmed in Dubrovnik?

Yes, extensively. Dubrovnik served as King's Landing for the middle and later seasons of Game of Thrones, standing in for the capital of the Seven Kingdoms. The production shot inside the walled Old Town, on the city walls themselves, at Fort Lovrijenac, on Lokrum Island and in the harbour, and the city remains the definitive King's Landing in the minds of most fans.

The production arrived after the show's earlier King's Landing filming in Malta and stayed through the run of the series. Dubrovnik offered something almost nowhere else could: a fully intact walled medieval city on the sea, with no modern construction visible inside the walls to spoil a period shot. The 1,940-metre circuit of the city walls, up to 25 metres high in places and 4 to 6 metres thick on the land side, frames the Old Town in a way that needed almost no set dressing. When the cameras looked down from the walls onto the red rooftops, that was the show, not a matte painting.

The list of what was shot where is long, and the reason fans walk the streets with a guide is that the locations hide in plain sight. The Pile Gate area, the Ploče Gate, the Jesuit Staircase, the Rector's Palace, the Minceta Tower and the harbour all appear. Fort Lovrijenac, standing on its 37-metre-high sea rock just outside the walls, doubled as the Red Keep. Lokrum Island stood in for parts of Qarth. If you want the scene-by-scene breakdown, our Game of Thrones tour guide walks through which sequence was filmed at each stop.

Here is the honest summary of the main locations and what you actually see today:

One caution on timing: the show's popularity is a big part of why the Old Town is busy. Dubrovnik recorded about 4.2 million overnight stays in 2025, sharing first place among Croatian destinations with Rovinj, and the screen-drawn crowd is a real slice of that. The counting system at the six Old Town entrances updates a headcount every 15 minutes, and on a September morning the curve climbs fast: 5,419 people at 08:00, 7,297 at 09:00, a 7,739 peak at 10:00. Go early, and you get the staircase almost to yourself.

What Was Filmed in Dubrovnik Old Town?

The Old Town itself carried most of the King's Landing street work: the Pile and Ploče gates, the Stradun's side lanes, the Jesuit Staircase, the Rector's Palace courtyard, the Dominican Monastery cloister and the old harbour. Interior courtyards and narrow stair streets did the heavy lifting, because the production needed lanes that still look like a pre-modern capital city.

The thing that surprises visitors is how small the filming footprint feels once you are standing in it. The Old Town is compact: the Stradun, the main street, is 298 metres long, and the whole walled core is 24.7 hectares. You can walk between the major King's Landing locations in well under an hour without a guide. What a guide adds is knowing which doorway was which scene, and which angles the cameras actually used, because plenty of "filming locations" sold online are simply pretty streets that never appeared on screen at all.

The Jesuit Staircase deserves its own sentence, since it is the single most visited filming spot in the city. It played the steps of the Great Sept of Baelor in the walk of penance sequence, one of the most discussed scenes the show ever produced. Fans arrive daily to photograph the same ascent. If you want the full story of that staircase and the street above it, our piece on the Walk of Shame location covers it scene by scene.

The Rector's Palace, which historically housed the government of the Republic of Ragusa, appears in the series as a King's Landing interior and courtyard, and it is one of the buildings included on the Dubrovnik Pass. The pass costs 40 euro for one day in main season, 1 March to 30 November, the same as the standalone City Walls ticket, and adds ten more sights plus a 24-hour bus ticket. That matters here because several filming locations double as ticketed attractions, and the pass is the cheapest way to see the walls plus the palaces in one day. The walls ticket alone is 40 euro in main season and drops to 20 euro in December, when no pass tier is on sale at all.

For fans who want the locations plus the story, the Original Game of Thrones Tour is the deepest option: from $25.57 per person, rated 4.8 across 6,132 reviews, and it adds Lokrum and a throne photo stop to the Old Town walk. One recent guest review sums up the experience better than a description can:

Brilliant day! Tour guide was very welcoming and informative! Highly recommend if you love Game of Thrones, definitely book the extra hour to go to Lokrum Island aswell! Also helps you get your bearings in the Old Town!

Lewis

If you would rather not pay for a guided walk at all, there is a free option. A pay-what-you-want Game of Thrones and history walk runs on GuruWalk, rated 4.74 across 444 reviews, covering the core Old Town locations in about an hour and a half. You tip the guide what you think the walk was worth at the end. For budget travellers it is the best value screen tour in the city, full stop.

What Movie Is Filmed in Dubrovnik?

No single movie defines Dubrovnik the way Game of Thrones does. The city's screen fame rests almost entirely on that one HBO series, and while film and television productions have used the Old Town as a backdrop over the years, none of them carries the recognition or draws the crowds that the King's Landing credit does. If you came for a movie, you almost certainly came for the show.

This is worth stating plainly, because the question arrives constantly. People remember watching Dubrovnik on screen and reach for "movie" or "Netflix" as the label, then land in the city expecting a film trail. The trail that exists is a Game of Thrones trail. Tour operators sell Game of Thrones walks, souvenir shops sell Game of Thrones merchandise, and the famous photo spots are famous because of specific scenes from the series. The city's tourism economy around screen locations is, in practice, a single-franchise economy.

That is not a complaint, and it is not a limitation either. The franchise happens to have filmed across the most beautiful real estate in the city, so following it takes you past the walls, the fortress, the staircase and the harbour, which is a genuinely excellent walking route even for someone who has never seen an episode. Our best things to do guide covers the same ground for the show-agnostic traveller.

A practical comparison of the ways to see the screen city:

One more honest note on the "Netflix" framing. Streaming platforms have reshaped how people discover destinations, and a lot of travellers genuinely believe every prestige drama they binge lives on the same service. It does not change anything on the ground in Dubrovnik. Whether you arrived thinking Netflix, HBO or simply "the dragons show," the streets, the staircase and the fortress are the same, and the walks that cover them are the same walks.

What Not to Do in Dubrovnik?

Do not walk the walls at midday in high summer, do not arrive by cruise ship expectations of an empty Old Town, do not drive into the walled core, and do not buy a walls ticket in December when you only need the pass logic in main season. Also skip any "Netflix locations" tour, because no such locations exist. Planning around these mistakes is the difference between a good visit and a punishing one.

The first mistake is timing, and the data is unambiguous. Cruise passengers at the Port of Dubrovnik peaked in September 2025 at 101,246 and October at 100,132, above July's 96,072 and August's 87,385. September and October, not July and August, are the busiest cruise months, which runs against every instinct a summer traveller has. The Port Authority limits cruise passengers to 8,000 a day in most cases, and of 243 cruise days a year only 18 exceed that number, but those peak days land in autumn. If you are choosing between a September Tuesday and a June Tuesday, the June one is often the quieter Old Town.

The second mistake is the walls at the wrong hour. The operator's stated hours at time of check are 08:00 to 19:30, and the wall circuit is almost entirely unshaded stone. The headcount curve tells you when the crowd arrives: 5,419 people inside the core at 08:00, peaking at 7,739 at 10:00. Walk the walls at opening, not at noon, and you get cooler stone, thinner crowds and better light over the rooftops. The adult ticket is 40 euro in main season, 1 March to 30 November, and 20 euro in December, with children 7 to 18 at 15 euro then 5 euro, and under 6 free. There is no family ticket; the operator sells exactly two paid ticket types.

The third mistake is treating the Old Town as a drive-in destination. Cars do not belong inside the walls, parking outside is scarce and expensive, and the whole core is a walking city. Our getting around guide covers buses, taxis and the airport transfer properly. The fourth is skipping the free options: beyond the pay-what-you-want GuruWalk tours, the Stradun, the gates, the harbour, the views from the outside of the walls and the sunset from the western edge all cost nothing, and our free things to do guide lists them.

The fifth mistake is specific to fans: overbooking the screen content. The Game of Thrones Walking Tour, from $29 per person and rated 4.9 across 1,052 reviews, covers the Old Town locations in about two hours, and that is genuinely enough for most visitors. Add Lokrum separately if you want the island scenes, and spend the rest of your trip on the beaches, the cable car and the konobas. People who build a whole itinerary around one franchise tend to leave having seen a television set and missed a city.

For the wider picture of how the show reshaped this city, including the overtourism debate it fuelled, our overtourism guide is the honest read. And if you are still building the trip, start from Things to Do in Dubrovnik and work outward from the walls.

Common Questions About Netflix and Filming in Dubrovnik

Which Netflix series was filmed in Dubrovnik?

None. No Netflix series was filmed in Dubrovnik. The production that made the city world-famous on screen is Game of Thrones, which was made for HBO. Every filming-location tour sold in the city is a Game of Thrones tour.

Was Game of Thrones Filmed in Dubrovnik?

Yes, extensively. Dubrovnik served as King's Landing across the middle and later seasons, with shooting inside the walled Old Town, on the city walls, at Fort Lovrijenac, on Lokrum Island and in the old harbour.

Where Is Cersei's Walk of Shame in Dubrovnik?

The walk of penance was filmed on the Jesuit Staircase in the Old Town, the Baroque steps that sweep up to the church on Ruđer Bošković Street. It is one of the most photographed spots in the city today.

What Movie Is Filmed in Dubrovnik?

No single movie defines Dubrovnik. The city's screen fame rests almost entirely on the Game of Thrones series, and the tours, souvenir shops and photo spots all trace back to that one HBO production.

Can You Visit the Game of Thrones Locations on Your Own?

Yes. The Old Town is compact and the main locations, including the Jesuit Staircase, the gates, the harbour and the outside of Fort Lovrijenac, can be walked in under an hour without a guide. A guided tour adds the scene-by-scene detail and the stories behind each spot.

Is There a Free Game of Thrones Tour in Dubrovnik?

Yes. A pay-what-you-want Game of Thrones and history walk runs on GuruWalk, rated 4.74 across 444 reviews, covering the core Old Town locations in about an hour and a half. You pay the guide what you think the walk was worth.