Set construction and services

"Venice" set for Dangerous Beauty (Marshall Herskovitz, 1998)

Cinecittà is home to the most experienced set designers and builders in the world. Many are members of famous artisan families who have passed their skills and secrets down through several generations. Today they combine the best traditional craftsmanship with the industry's most advanced technology and techniques to create highly functional and visually striking sets, such as:

• Imperial Rome for Rome
• mid 19th century New York for Gangs of New York 
• fantasy sets for Baron Von Munchausen
• the abbey for The Name of the Rose
• the Imperial Palace of medieval China for The Last Emperor
• 1930s New York for Once Upon  A Time in America

Visit the Cinecittà Studios Photo Tour section of this website to see our most famous sets (Stages and Sets).

The set department offers:

• full services on or off the lot
• sculpture workshop
• woodworking mill and carpentry shop
• painting/scenics unit
• model builders

Permanent sets:

• Ancient Italian Civilisation set (houses, shops, temples) - 5 acres of backlot
• Roman amphitheatre
• Small villas (exteriors)
• Versatile city street - 1930's New York of Paris 1960's Rome - 500 ft (152.4 m)
• Trevi Fountain (partial)
• Full- size submarine interior - 260 ft (79.25)
• Gimbal vessel/earthquake simulator
• Tuscan/Umbrian medieval town square circa 1200 to today
• Modern train interior/exterior

Specialized equipment:

• Gimbal motion simulator
• fixed gantry CNC modular routing workstation (22' x 100') (This next-generation machine is capable of producing 3-dimensional reliefs and elaborate cut-outs at a tolerance of a fraction of an inch, allowing very fast, accurate reproduction of scenic detailing in any size and in a variety of materials.)

Set for Super Quark (TV series 2001)

Set for The Name of the Rose (Jean Jacques Annaud, 1985)