A castle on a rocky tidal island in the evening light, the sea around it — St Michael’s Mount from the shore at Marazion, July 2026. ArildV · CC BY-SA 4.0

High Tide · St Michael’s Mount, Cornwall

Emma D’Arcy, the grown Rhaenyra Targaryen, in August 2022, the week the series began. Gwydion M. Williams · CC BY 2.0
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Milly Alcock, the young Rhaenyra, at German Comic Con in Dortmund in December 2022. German Comic Con · CC BY 3.0
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Matt Smith, Daemon Targaryen, at Los Angeles Comic Con in December 2023, between the first and second seasons. Kevin Paul · CC BY 4.0
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Paddy Considine, King Viserys, at Comic Con Brussels in May 2023. Miguel Discart · CC BY-SA 2.0
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HBO, 2022 onward · from George R. R. Martin’s Fire & Blood

House of the Dragon

Above: St Michael’s Mount, which stood in for High Tide, the Velaryon seat. In the niches, the cast as themselves during the run. King Viserys spends the first season building a model of a city he will never see. Below, you build one out of the real places.

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Old Valyria, in pumice

Print the model

In the series King Viserys builds a model of Old Valyria that takes up more and more of his rooms. It has more than 200 separate miniature buildings. Many were 3D-printed over about two months, and a single building took at least 24 hours to print.

The production designer, Jim Clay, settled on a volcanic look: the team latched on to pumice stone. The smaller pieces were sculpted by hand and given a pumice finish. So print yours: ten plots, a day on the printer for each, and every building that rises is a real place where the series was made.

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Paddy Considine, King Viserys, at Comic Con Brussels in May 2023. Miguel Discart · CC BY-SA 2.0

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Large pale studio sheds behind a fence and grass verge — Leavesden Studios from the road, October 2005, before the site was rebuilt as Warner Bros. Studios Leavesden. Nigel Cox · CC BY-SA 2.0

Warner Bros. Leavesden Studios near Watford was the main production base for the ten-part first season; the interior sets were built and filmed there. An LED video stage put real-time backgrounds behind the actors.

The model grows larger and more elaborate as Viserys’s health and his hold on the throne decline; by the end the newest pieces look rougher, and cobwebs gather.

St Michael’s Mount

St Michael’s Mount: castle and gardens

Marazion, Cornwall

Walk the causeway at low tide or take the boat at high tide (boats 15 March to 30 October). Booking ahead gets the advance rate. Weather can close the island.

Plan a visit

Marazion Hotel

The Square, Marazion

Eleven en-suite rooms on The Square in Marazion, about 100 m from the beach; the sea-view rooms look across the bay to St Michael’s Mount (Visit Cornwall listing). Pictured: the Mount from the shore, 2026.

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West Cornwall coast tours

From Penzance and Falmouth

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A bronze statue of a helmeted rider on a horse on a stone plinth, a church tower behind — The bronze rider in Trujillo’s Plaza Mayor, with the church of San Martín behind, December 2015. JnCrlsMG · CC BY-SA 4.0

Trujillo and Cáceres

The rider and the dragon

The square’s equestrian statue of Francisco Pizarro was digitally altered so that a dragon stands where the conquistador does.

Rider: the bronze as you will find it in the square.

El Debate describes the Plaza Mayor as built in the 14th century and dominated by the church of San Martín; in the series it becomes a busy market. Trujillo, a medieval town 45 km east of Cáceres, was used both in House of the Dragon and in Game of Thrones’ seventh season.

HBO came back to Cáceres after using it for King’s Landing in Game of Thrones’ seventh season; streets of the old town again stood in for King’s Landing. It names the Calle de la Amargura, the dome of the Toledo-Moctezuma palace, the Plaza del Conde de Canilleros and the Arco de la Estrella among the places seen.

A large paved square of stone palaces and arcades under a blue sky — The Plaza Mayor in Trujillo, April 2024. Benjamin Smith · CC BY-SA 4.0

A wide stone archway in a medieval wall with a tower above it — The Arco de la Estrella, the gate into Cáceres’s old town, September 2009. Leyendasdesevilla · CC BY-SA 4.0

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Cáceres old-town walks

Cáceres

Live marketplace results for guided walks in Cáceres’s walled old town, the series’ King’s Landing. Check which cover the filming streets.

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George R. R. Martin, whose Fire & Blood the series adapts, at Bubonicon in Albuquerque in August 2025, during the run. Gage Skidmore · CC BY-SA 4.0

Season three, 2025

Pier, crag and lake

HBO filmed the third season across Anglesey, Conwy and Gwynedd in June and July 2025. Beaumaris Pier is one of the places the Welsh Government names.

The series is based on George R. R. Martin’s Fire & Blood. The executive producer, Kevin De La Noy, said the cast and crew were delighted to come back to Wales.

Creative Wales gave the season £674,600 of production funding, which the Welsh Government expects to bring £6.7 million to the Welsh economy. Twelve trainees had paid entry-level placements, in costume, set decoration and props, camera and sound, and every crew member had a Welsh-language lesson.

Beaumaris Pier on the Menai Strait, July 2013. John M · CC BY-SA 2.0
Beaumaris Pier
The seafront, Beaumaris, Anglesey, LL58 8AW
HBO filmed the third season across Anglesey, Conwy and Gwynedd in June and July 2025. Beaumaris Pier is one of the places the Welsh Government names.
A public pier on the Menai Strait at the foot of the town, a short walk from Beaumaris Castle.
Craig yr Undeb above Llyn Padarn, near Llanberis, August 2019. Mike Pennington · CC BY-SA 2.0
Craig yr Undeb
Union Rock, by Llyn Padarn near Llanberis, Gwynedd
Craig yr Undeb, the Union Rock, in Gwynedd, is another of the third season’s named locations.
A crag above the lakeside road between Llanberis and Brynrefail. See it from the road and the shore of Llyn Padarn.
Ffynnon Llugwy under the Carneddau, Eryri, August 2015. Peter S · CC BY-SA 2.0
Ffynnon Llugwy
Below Carnedd Llewelyn, above the A5 near Capel Curig, Eryri
Ffynnon Llugwy, a lake in Eryri, is the third place the Welsh Government names.
A mountain reservoir reached on foot up the access track from the A5 east of Ogwen. Steep ground above; dress for the hills.

The season’s directors are Clare Kilner, Nina Lopez-Corrado, Andrij Parekh and Loni Peristere. New faces in the third season include Tommy Flanagan as Lord Roderick Dustin and Dan Fogler as Ser Torrhen Manderly; James Norton plays Ormund Hightower.

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The finished table

Where it is now

The Mount, the Cornish beaches, the old towns of Cáceres and Trujillo, Monsanto and the Welsh pier, crag and lake are all open to visit. Leavesden is a working studio, seen from outside. Mind the tide at the Mount and at Kynance.

Where it is now

10 places you can visit in England, Spain, Portugal and Wales. Scenes are named only where a source names them.

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

Site reference · Restricted access · Not an exact scene or camera position; not a visitor route. A working studio; its stages are not open to visitors. The Harry Potter studio tour on the same lot sells timed tickets in advance.
Site reference · Public access · Not an exact scene or camera position; not a visitor route. Walk the cobbled causeway from Marazion at low tide; at high tide boats run between 15 March and 30 October. Wind or rough sea can close the island. Book castle tickets ahead for the lower rate.
Site reference · Public access · Not an exact scene or camera position; not a visitor route. A big beach with a National Trust car park (free for members; coins or PayByPhone for others). RNLI lifeguards from mid-May to the end of September; dogs welcome all year.
Site reference · Public access · Not an exact scene or camera position; not a visitor route. National Trust. A steep path down from the car park; at high tide there is little or no beach. No lifeguards: watch the tide.

Leavesden Studios from the road, October 2005, before the site was rebuilt as Warner Bros. Studios Leavesden. Nigel Cox · CC BY-SA 2.0
England · Leavesden, near Watford, Hertfordshire
Warner Bros. Studios Leavesden
Warner Bros. Leavesden Studios near Watford was the main production base for the ten-part first season; the interior sets were built and filmed there.
A working studio; its stages are not open to visitors. The Harry Potter studio tour on the same lot sells timed tickets in advance.
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St Michael’s Mount from the shore at Marazion, July 2026. ArildV · CC BY-SA 4.0
England · Mount’s Bay, off Marazion, Cornwall, TR17 0HS
St Michael’s Mount
The Mount stood in for High Tide, the ancestral seat of the Velaryon family, in House of the Dragon in 2022.
Walk the cobbled causeway from Marazion at low tide; at high tide boats run between 15 March and 30 October. Wind or rough sea can close the island. Book castle tickets ahead for the lower rate.
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Holywell Bay at low tide, with Carter’s and Gulls Rocks offshore, October 2013. Thomas Tolkien from Yorkshire, UK · CC BY 2.0
England · Holywell, near Newquay, Cornwall, TR8 5PP
Holywell Bay
Visit Cornwall says Holywell Bay portrayed Driftmark in House of the Dragon.
A big beach with a National Trust car park (free for members; coins or PayByPhone for others). RNLI lifeguards from mid-May to the end of September; dogs welcome all year.
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Kynance Cove from the cliff path, June 2024. Unukorno · CC BY 4.0
England · The Lizard, near Helston, Cornwall, TR12 7PJ
Kynance Cove
Kynance Cove was used for the Stepstones scenes in the first season’s third episode, Second of His Name.
National Trust. A steep path down from the car park; at high tide there is little or no beach. No lifeguards: watch the tide.
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Stay

Facing the Mount.

A hotel on Marazion’s square, across the bay from High Tide.

Marazion Hotel

The Square, Marazion

Eleven en-suite rooms on The Square in Marazion, about 100 m from the beach; the sea-view rooms look across the bay to St Michael’s Mount (Visit Cornwall listing). Pictured: the Mount from the shore, 2026.

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