Where it was filmed 'The English Patient'

A large part of the film was shot in val d’Orcia, southern Tuscany. In particular, the Monastery of Sant’Anna in Camprena is the partly destroyed farmhouse where Hana (Juliette Binoche) treats her mysterious English patient, Count László Almásy (Ralph Fiennes). The building is located near Pienza (Siena), whose centre – piazza Pio II with the Cathedral dedicated to Our Lady of the Assumption and Palazzo Borgia, decorated with the Italian flag – has a starring role in a scene celebrating the end of the war towards the end of the film. Earlier shots including one where a young nurse pulls over in a jeep to ask Hana for money, just before being blown up by a landmine, show the roads just outside the little hamlet of Cosona.

The church where Lt. Kip Singh (Naveen Andrews) takes Hana at night is the Cathedral of Santa Maria Assunta, in piazza Grande, Montepulciano. However, the faces, bodies and angels that Hana sees by torchlight as she happily dangles from a rope are the 12 frescoes painted by Piero della Francesca for the Bacci Chapel of the Basilica of St. Francis in Arezzo in the mid 15^th century.

Lt. Kip Singh is defusing a bomb when Allied tanks appear bearing the news of the Nazi surrender:  the area is Ripafratta, a hamlet of San Giuliano Terme (province of Pisa). The film shows the castle and the bridge over the Serchio river.

While the desert scenes, revealed in the English patient’s continual flashbacks, were mostly shot in Tunisia, the military hospital in Africa where he is treated after the plane crash is the former Colonia Principi di Piemonte, located in Calambrone, a hamlet of Pisa. Katherine Clifton (Kristin Scott Thomas), with whom László has a passionate love affair, is a guest at Shepheards Hotel in Cairo, actually Hotel des Bains on the Venice Lido. A brief scene features the old harbour of Trieste standing in for the port of Tobruk in North Africa, conquered by the Nazis in 1942.