Where it was filmed 'Gomorrah 5'

The last act in the TV series, Gomorrah, the global success inspired by Roberto Saviano’s bestseller, was shot in Naples, Riga and Rome. Reduced to ruins by the war between the Levantes and Patrizia in Season 4, Naples is again the principal location for the battle between the two former fraternal friends – now enemies again – Genny Savastano (Salvatore Esposito) and Ciro Di Marzio “The Immortal” (Marco D’Amore, who also directs several episodes). At the end of Season 3, the Immortal had disappeared from the scene, apparently shot to death and thrown into the sea.

Naples is once again a leading character in this final season: alongside such familiar settings as the vele of Scampia and Secondigliano, the Central Station and nearby Centro Direzionale with its modern skyscrapers, rione Ponticelli, in the eastern part of the city, returns with the enormous and unmistakable murals of Parco Merola (also known as the Mural Park) which cover the blind building facades, contrasting the greyness of the wide swathes of surrounding cement. A work by Sicilian artists Rosk&Loste, Chi è vuluto bene, nun s'o scorda, (which features two kids playing soccer in the shirts of the Naples and Argentina teams) stands out in particular and is used as the background for scenes in different episodes. An homage to the dreams of the local community, and a clear reference to the eternal idol Maradona and the melancholic hope placed in the future generations.

Other locations in Campania include the port of Salerno, the produce market of Casalnuovo, Villa Literno and several places in the area of Caserta that represent the criminal fascination with ostentatious wealth and luxury: from Villa Porfidia in Recale, a fortress-palace built at the end of the 1700s by the Bourbon dynasty with its imposing and unmistakeable tower, to Marcianise where the historic Palazzo Grauso Tartaglione featured as a location.

Rome returns as a location in the final season of Gomorrah, shown first in shots of the Verano Cemetery where there is a thrilling chase between police and men loyal to the boss of Ponticelli who has been ambushed. The setting changes during the burial of Gerlando and Benedetta Levante (killed in the previous season) to the Flaminio Cemetery (also known as the Cemetery of Prima Porta) considered the capital’s masterpiece of contemporary cemetery architecture.