

The summer palace is Villa del Balbianello, near the village of Lenno, about 15 miles north of the town of Como on the lake’s western shore. The stunning lake retreat is on Lake Como in northern Italy near the Swiss border. More recently, the Plaza de España became the presidential palace of ‘Wadiya’ in 2012 Sacha Baron Cohen comedy, The Dictator. You may remember the Palaçio as the ‘Cairo’ hotel, where TE Lawrence ( Peter O'Toole) ruffles the feathers of the British officers by demanding lemonade for his Arab companion, in David Lean’s Lawrence of Arabia.Īs the 70s generation of ‘movie brats’, including George Lucas and Steven Spielberg, are such fans of David Lean, it's difficult to dismiss this as mere coincidence ( Spielberg, similarly, revisits a David Lean location in Indiana The Plaza itself is open to the public and here you'll find the canal with its elegant 'Venetian' bridges crossed by Anakin ( Hayden Christensen) and Padme ( Natalie Portman), and the pillared colonnade through which the pair stroll. Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones film location: Anakin and Padme walk in the palace grounds: Plaza de Espana, Seville, Spain
