Iconic Game of Thrones locations we want to see in House of the Dragon

The Dragonpit in all its glory

In the seventh season of Game of Thrones, we visited the ruins of the Dragonpit, the place where the Targaryens used to keep their dragons before they all died out. It was where Cersei, Daenerys, Jon Snow and their followers all met to decide what to do about the White Walker situation, and obviously, the place had seen better days. By this point in Westerosi history, the Dragonpit was a ruin, a dilapidated amphitheater open to the sky. But at the time of the Dance of the Dragons, it was a very different story.

When the Dance begins, Westeros is stuffed to bursting with dragons, and the Targaryens needed a place to stable them. That place was the Dragonpit, a magnificent domed structure that sat atop one of the three main hills in King’s Landing’s (on top of the other two sat the Red Keep and the Sept of Baelor).

Far from the ruin it is when we see it on Game of Thrones, at this point the Dragonpit is opulent, the grandest and most spectacular stable imaginable. It plays a key role in a couple of major events, during the Dance, too, especially the storming of the Dragonpit, when some of the city’s citizenry get fed up with the constant war and decide to hit the Targaryens where it hurts.

We’ll also see, at least partially, how the Dragonpit fell into the state of disrepair we find it in later. The Dance of the Dragons is all about the downfall of the Targaryen dynasty, with the crumbling of the Dragonpit as a obvious symbol of it.