Crema, summer 1983 · filmed 2016 · released 2017

Call Me by Your Name

Luca Guadagnino’s film of André Aciman’s novel: an archaeologist’s family, a summer guest, and a boy who has to find the words. Every slide here is a real place you can stand in.

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Moscazzano · the summer house

The summer house.
Lay the long table.

Five places, one fact each. Under the fruit trees, as in the film.

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A village street with a brick church and bell tower under a blue sky — Moscazzano, the village where the family villa stands, with its parish church. The villa is private and not shown. Cremasco · CC BY 3.0

The villa is a private house. We name it, but it is not on our map, and this is the village, not the house.

A private house, closed to the public. It is not on our map; the photograph shows the village, not the villa.

Where we read it

Luca Guadagnino smiling, grey-bearded, in a blue jumper over a striped shirt — Luca Guadagnino, Berlin, February 2017. Maximilian Bühn · CC BY-SA 4.0

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Cycle the Adda and Serio route

From Crema · Free route and GPX file

Cremona’s own cycle route through the film’s country: Crema, Moscazzano by the villa, the Quarantina spring at Farinate, and a variant to Pandino’s memorial and castle. Download the GPX from the page.

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Crema · by bike

Ride through
the arch.

Outside the arch
Under the Torrazzo
In the square

Lombardy’s tourist board picks out this Renaissance gateway and its square as the film’s scenery. The arch of the Torrazzo, by the cathedral, is among the Crema streets, squares and monuments that appear in the film.

The film covers much of Crema’s old town. Crema sits on the River Serio, about an hour from Milan. Guadagnino’s verdict on it: “It’s just Italy.”

11.5 km from here to the Pandino memorial, as the crow flies

Where we read it

A clock-tower gateway with a deep arch, seen from the square — The Torrazzo, the Renaissance gateway on Piazza del Duomo, September 2017. Cremasco · CC BY-SA 4.0

A long arcaded town hall with the Torrazzo tower at its left end, at dusk — The Palazzo Comunale and its arcades on Piazza del Duomo, Crema, January 2017. Fus98 · CC BY-SA 4.0

A public square in the old town, open at all hours.

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Relais Vimercati

Crema old town

Not a filming location: a bed and breakfast in a restored 17th-century house at Via Vimercati 13, a five-minute walk from Crema cathedral, with breakfast served in the room.

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Piazza Vittorio Emanuele III · Pandino

Round the monument.
Never the same side.

The film’s scenes in Pandino’s main square are played around its war memorial, with the castle in the background.

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Elio on one side, Oliver on the other. Walk on.

Elio: this side · Oliver: the far side

A bronze soldier holding a boulder over his head on a craggy stone base with marble name panels — The war memorial on Piazza Vittorio Emanuele III, Pandino, May 2015. Caba2011 · CC BY-SA 4.0

In the middle of the town square, open at all hours. The castle is a minute’s walk.

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A square brick castle front with a tall arched gateway, framed by trees — The Castello Visconteo, Pandino, May 2013. Casalmaggiore Provincia · CC BY-SA 3.0

The castle behind

The castle stands in the background of the film’s scenes in Pandino’s main square. Bernabò Visconti and Regina della Scala had it built from about 1355. Council offices, a library and a dairy school’s canteen fill the ground floor; the upper rooms, among them the Sala del Drago, are used for visits.

Weekends only: Saturday by booking; Sunday and holidays 10am–12pm and 2–5pm. Tickets €7.50, reduced €5.

Where we read it

A still spring pool reflecting bare trees and low winter sun — Fontanile Quarantina at Farinate, January 2022. Mannivu · CC BY-SA 4.0

Farinate · Fontanile Quarantina

Where he comes
to read.

The springs of Capralba are among the two’s outings: this is the Fontanile Quarantina at Farinate. Elio says it is where he comes to read, and here he kisses Oliver for the first time.

A spring pool off a country track at Farinate. Cremona’s Adda and Serio cycle route passes it.

Where we read it

André Aciman at a press-conference table with a microphone and water bottles — André Aciman, whose 2007 novel the film adapts, Berlin, February 2017. Maximilian Bühn · CC BY-SA 4.0

Sirmione · Lake Garda

Pull it up
out of the lake.

The film’s archaeological scenes were shot in the Grottoes of Catullus park, on land and on the lake.

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Something is down there. Take the rope.

Two ruined Roman walls framing the calm lake at dusk — The Grotte di Catullo, the ruins of a Roman villa at Sirmione, September 2020. Marco Ober · CC BY-SA 4.0

Grotte di Catullo

The ruins are a Roman house of the first century AD, about two hectares on the rocky tip of the peninsula, in an olive grove above Jamaica Beach.

April–October about 8.30am–7.30pm; closes at 5pm in winter; usually closed on Mondays. Tickets €10, 18–25s €2, under-18s free.

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White limestone slabs and clear green water seen from the air, with a few swimmers — Jamaica Beach below the Roman villa at Sirmione, seen from above when the lake was very low, August 2022. ALESSIOTERZO · CC BY-SA 4.0

Jamaica Beach

The archaeological scenes also used Jamaica Beach, on land and on the lake. The Grotte di Catullo look down over it from their olive grove.

Flat pale rocks running into the lake below the Roman villa. How much shows depends on the lake level.

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The Grotte di Catullo

Sirmione · €10 · 18–25s €2 · under-18s free · usually closed Mondays

The Roman house above Jamaica Beach where the bronze comes out of the lake.

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Città Alta · the last days

Bergamo,
late.

Bergamo is where Oliver and Elio spend the last days of their romance.

Timothée Chalamet, curly-haired, in a purple suede jacket against a blue backdrop — Timothée Chalamet, February 2017. Maximilian Bühn · CC BY-SA 4.0

Armie Hammer in a dark jacket over a brown knit shirt, against a blue backdrop — Armie Hammer, February 2017. Maximilian Bühn · CC BY-SA 4.0

A bronze angel holding a shield in front of a carved marble porch and rose window — A detail of the front of Santa Maria Maggiore, Bergamo, January 2025. Monica Rondoni · CC BY-SA 4.0

Santa Maria Maggiore

In Bergamo’s upper town the two dance with new friends in Piazza Rosate and by Santa Maria Maggiore. Literary Traveler puts their drunken wander of the last days in front of the basilica.

Its foundation stone was laid in 1133, after drought, plague and famine; the composer Gaetano Donizetti is buried inside. It has no main door at the front: four side doors stand under porches, with stone lions at their bases.

A working basilica in the upper town, beside Piazza Rosate. Check the day’s opening before you go.

Where we read it

A cobbled square ringed by stone buildings, the cathedral front at the far end — Piazza del Duomo in Bergamo’s upper town, November 2011. Cristian Lorini · CC BY-SA 3.0

Piazza del Duomo

After the dancing, they kiss in the cathedral square.

A square in the upper town, open at all hours. Quietest late at night, as in the film.

Where we read it

Piazza Rosate, by the basilica: dancing with strangers.

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Santa Maria Maggiore

Bergamo, Città Alta

The basilica by Piazza Rosate, where they dance on their last nights; Donizetti is buried inside.

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Hotel Piazza Vecchia

Bergamo, Città Alta

Not a filming location: thirteen rooms in a 14th-century house at Via Bartolomeo Colleoni 3, once the home of the condottiere Colleoni, a few steps from Piazza Vecchia in the upper town.

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A tall white waterfall pouring down a rock face, with a crowd watching from the meadow below — The Cascate del Serio on a release day, June 2018. Fringio · CC BY-SA 4.0

Valbondione · Cascate del Serio

Open the dam.
Half an hour.

Lombardy’s tourist board confirms that a scene of the film was shot at the falls. In it, the two young men run across a grassy slope. The falls drop 315 metres in three leaps, and run only on the days the Barbellino dam is opened.

Pick a release day first. There were five in 2026.

The river has been regulated for hydroelectric power since 1931. The 2026 releases were on 13 June, 11 July (at night, lit up), 16 August, 13 September and 11 October, each for half an hour.

The falls run only on release days, for about half an hour. The 2026 releases are over; the last was on 11 October. The walk up from Valbondione takes about an hour and a half.

Where we read it

The tray
is full.

Where it is now

10 places you can visit around Crema, on Lake Garda and in Bergamo. Villa Albergoni is a private house: it is named, but it is not on the map.

Pins mark public places; private homes are named but not pinned.

General reference · Public access · Coordinate precision: building · Not an exact scene or camera position; not a visitor route. A gateway into the cathedral square, open at all hours. Walk or ride through it, as they do.
General reference · Public access · Coordinate precision: site · Not an exact scene or camera position; not a visitor route. A public square in the old town, open at all hours.

The Torrazzo, the Renaissance gateway on Piazza del Duomo, September 2017. Cremasco · CC BY-SA 4.0
Piazza del Duomo, 26013 Crema
The Torrazzo arch
Lombardy’s tourist board picks out this Renaissance gateway and its square as the film’s scenery.
A gateway into the cathedral square, open at all hours. Walk or ride through it, as they do.
Where we read it
The cathedral front on Piazza del Duomo, Crema, July 2022. Mannivu · CC BY-SA 4.0
Piazza del Duomo, 26013 Crema
Piazza del Duomo, Crema
On a bike ride into town, Elio and Oliver stop for a drink in the cathedral square, with the Torrazzo arch behind them.
A public square in the old town, open at all hours.
Where we read it

Stay

A bed in the old towns.

Neither is in the film: one in Crema’s old centre, one in Bergamo’s upper town.

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Relais Vimercati

Crema old town

Not a filming location: a bed and breakfast in a restored 17th-century house at Via Vimercati 13, a five-minute walk from Crema cathedral, with breakfast served in the room.

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Hotel Piazza Vecchia

Bergamo, Città Alta

Not a filming location: thirteen rooms in a 14th-century house at Via Bartolomeo Colleoni 3, once the home of the condottiere Colleoni, a few steps from Piazza Vecchia in the upper town.

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