Game of Thrones Behind The Scenes on The Journey To Spain

We talked yesterday about the details behind the making of Game of Thrones Season 6, including the difficulties of moving the majority of non-Irish based filming from Croatia to Spain. Now, the show’s YouTube channel has released a behind-the-scenes video called “Journey to Spain,” where actors and crew members discuss some of the major locations where they filmed. This is the same video we saw last week, only this time it isn’t dubbed over in Spanish and you can hear what people are saying.

We get a few glimpses of actors in locations where we were pretty sure they filmed material—now we’re certain. Check it out.

Some of this stuff is just incredible to look at. The Castillo de Zafra, which they start talking about at 1:37, has been one I’ve been madly in love with ever since we first saw it, and I cannot *wait* to get to see on screen. (Also, thank you show, for confirming that Isaac Hempstead Wright (Bran) was actually there and will be present in that flashback scene they filmed.) The Mesa Roldan, which is the first location you see Peter Dinklage filming in front of, is another really remarkable location the show got to use.

Look at this post, look in the mirror
You see the SPOILERS and you close your eyes
Look at the warning, not to scroll down
Who’s gonna spoil here when everybody dies

But though I don’t want to be that person, I can’t help myself. Yesterday, in my numbers post, you’ll note I said the production filmed in six locations. This video only says they filmed in five.

That’s not true. There were six. They skipped one. Right after the production filmed in Girona (which stood in for not only King’s Landing, but also Braavos and Oldtown), before they moved on to Bardenas Reales (which is where they filmed Dany’s time as a Dothraki prisoner before she is taken to Vaes Dothrak), there is a location where the show filmed that the video just doesn’t even mention: the Castell de Santa Florentina, in Barcelona (pictured above). It was reportedly used to film scenes at Horn Hill, the seat of House Tarly. Although the castle actually closed down for two weeks in order to accommodate filming, the production only filmed in this historical site for three days.

For some reason, the production didn’t want to show Sam’s home. Come to think of it, we haven’t seen it in the trailers either. Curiouser and curiouser.