Where it was filmed 'The Twilight Saga: New Moon'

Tuscany provides part of the background for this instalment of the love story between vampire Edward and human Bella, mostly set in Vancouver.

Believing that Bella is dead, Edward is determined to kill himself, although this is not an easy feat for an immortal vampire. The only way open to him is to provoke the anger of the Volturi, an ancient, powerful family of vampires who guard the anonymity of their kind with unflinching severity from the city of Volterra (PI). However, the production chose, for design reasons, to shoot the film’s ending in Montepulciano, the ancient village in the province of Siena.

We see Bella and Edward’s sister, Alice, racing down the little roads around Montepulciano and the Temple of San Biagio, in a bright yellow sports car, where the camera immortalizes large swathes of the green Tuscan landscape. On reaching the city gates, Bella gets out of the car and runs under arches and down the streets and alleyways of the historical centre, to Piazza Grande and the Duomo, where the celebrations for the patronal Feast of St. Mark are underway. Edward has decided to show his true nature in public on this occasion so that the Volturi will stop and kill him. Bella pushes her way through the crowded square and heads towards the Renaissance Palazzo del Comune, crossing a seven metre central fountain that faithfully reproduces the details in the book.

Bella manages to stop Edward in time, but they are caught inside the Palazzo by the Volturi guards. The group walks along the underground passages and tunnels of the Cantina del Redi in Palazzo Ricci to the Volturi lair for a final showdown.