‘House of the dragon’ exhibits the gardens of Santa Clotilde in Lloret de Mar around the world

The first chapter of “House of the Dragon” (The House of the Dragon), the prelude to “Game of Thrones”, the American media series that has become a worldwide success exhibits the Santa Clotilde Gardens in Lloret de Mar (Girona) around the world.

The HBO and HBO Max streaming platform will premiere every Monday for nine weeks plus an episode of this “prequel” to which they already showed a two-minute trailer a few weeks ago in which the profile of the characteristic cypresses of the Santa Clotilde Gardens with the Mediterranean Sea in the background.

The team of “House of the dragon” was filming in the Santa Clotilde Gardens last year, from October 29 to November 10.

The production consisted of 250 people, a Tech Base that settled in the pine forest of Cala Sa Boadella for medium-tonnage trucks and a Base Camp located at the Transports Pujol bus terminal to install the 15 caravans and 10 large-tonnage vehicles (1,000 kg).

The team spent the night in el Evenia Olympic Palace, where they also made use of several meeting roomsand some of the actors and actresses did so at the Casa Coco hotel, a boutique hotel opened in 2021 with 22 rooms.

Mediation of Lloret Tourism

Elizabeth Keegan, manager of Lloret Turismo, the entity that manages the division of the Lloret Film Office, maintains that “despite the shooting of a blockbuster, with the expectations that this generates, the management and coordination with the production company Fresco Films (HBO emissary in Spain) was very easy and professional”.

Fresco Films chose the Santa Clotilde Gardens, with some 27,000 square metres, for their Renaissance style and for their panoramic view of the sea, as they are located on a cliff between Cala Boadella and Fenals beach.

Keegan believes that “The Gardens can be easily recognized since they did not have to transform the space at the level of props and decoration & rdquor ;.