"The Italian sequences of A Room with a View were filmed in Florence, notably in the Piazza della Signoria and in the church Santa Croce. A private villa in the town of Maiano was used for the interiors of the Pensione Bertolini; and the Hotel-Pensione Quisisana e Ponte Vecchio, Lungarno Archibusieri, provided the room (22) ouyt of whose window there was, regrettably, no view. The Quisisana, where crew members stayed during the Italian produciton period, was badly damaged by a bomb that exploded against a wall of the Uffizi in May 1993. The carriages bearing Mr. Eager and his party to the hillside picnic were photographed on the road from Florence to Fiesole and passed the Villa I Tatti of Bernard Berenson.
The English sequences were chiefly filmed in and around Sevenoaks, Kent, a few miles north of the town of Tonbridge where E. M. Forster attended secondary school. The garden and interiors of Windy Corner, and the scenes at the Sacred Lake, were all photographed at Foxwold, a private house near Brasted, on the A25 between Westerham and Sevenoaks. Sir Harry Otway's garden party was set in the National Trust garden at Emmetts, near Ide Hill, the boyhood house of Forster's Cambridge contemporary and fellow writer Percy Lubbock. The fourteenth-century Saint Mary's Church, in the village of Chiddingstone, on the River Eden near Penhurst, served as the exterior of Mr. Beebe's church; Chiddingstone Village Hall was the Emersons' home, and a room in Saint Mary's Rectory was the sitting room in which George's father finally speaks his mind. In London, the Estonian Legation (now the Estonian Embassy), Queensway, was the residence of the indomitable Miss Alans; and the Linley Sambourne House, Kensington, provided the rich Victorian backdrop for the musical evening of the complacent Mrs. Vyse."
(Quoted from John Pym: Merchant Ivory's English Landscape - Rooms, Views and AngloSaxon Attitudes, obtainable in the bookstore.)
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