A magical tale of all-conquering friendship and the eternal confrontation of good and evil, invented by Joan K. Rowling and transferred to the screen by Warner Bros. For the second decade, the minds of fans of the fantasy genre have been haunted. And films about the adventures of the young sorcerer Harry Potter attract not only a detailed and multifaceted plot, but also the magnificent landscapes of Great Britain and Scotland.
Road to the Hogwarts
Picturesque mountain landscapes, where the West Highland Line is located, together with its famous viaduct, consisting of 21 arches, amaze with its strict foggy beauty. They were not chosen by chance at all. Such mysterious and gloomy in the cloudy days of the British summer, they help create the illusion of the reality of a magical world, about which an eleven-year-old orphan does not know anything at the beginning of the story.
They are so strikingly different from the same houses that surrounded Harry throughout his childhood, that it captures the breath even from the audience on the other side of the screen. In fact, a completely modern diesel train runs along this road, but from May to October you can ride an old steam train shot in films as the Hogwarts Express, which in reality is called the Jacobite Steam Train.
School of Witchcraft and Wizardry
The beautiful old exteriors of the eight-story Hogwarts Castle are actually a sixteen-meter-wide breadth; it is located today at Leavesden Studios in London. But the rock on which the castle in the film stands and the emerald hills surrounding it are quite real and are located in the town of Glencoe in Scotland. Landscapes are easily recognizable by frames from the fourth part of the Goblet of Fire.
The interior rooms, courtyards and bedrooms of Hogwarts were rented in several places: for example, the school’s large living room is the dining room at the famous Oxford University, and the gloomy old passages and the courtyard in which freshmen learned to fly in the first part were shot at Enik Castle, built back in the 11th century. By the way, this castle is inhabited, but some of its halls are open for visiting, and now you can see tourists proudly perched on brooms in the hope of mastering the art of flight.
