Film & photo location · Tuscany
A private seafront villa in Castiglioncello, on the Etruscan Riviera, for film, photography and advertising productions that want the Mediterranean without a set.
A real coast, not a set
Roc Villa Bay is a private seafront villa in Castiglioncello, on the Etruscan Riviera in Tuscany. For film and photography, it offers something a studio cannot: a real house, a real garden and the Tyrrhenian Sea in the same frame.
The property sits above the water between a Mediterranean garden of more than four thousand square metres and two private accesses to the sea. Interiors open to coastal light; terraces, stone steps and pine shade give a production several distinct worlds within a single location.
It is a house, not an event venue and not a backlot. That is exactly why it reads as honest on camera.
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Private accesses to the Tyrrhenian Sea
+4,000 m²
Mediterranean garden, terraces and paths
3
Private units inside the villa
4
Bedrooms, plus living room and kitchen
2
Ways to the water: cove and beach
LI
Castiglioncello, province of Livorno
What the set offers
01 · Interiors
A living room filled with sea light, an open-plan kitchen, four bedrooms and stone bathrooms. Rooms are calm rather than dressed, with natural materials and windows that keep the horizon in the shot. Balconies and corridors give intimate frames as well as wide ones.
02 · Exteriors
More than four thousand square metres of Mediterranean garden: umbrella pines, olives, shrubs, stone terraces and shaded paths that lead towards the water. Enough space to separate units, hold a base camp and still keep the frame clean.
03 · Water
Stone steps cut into the garden lead to a rocky cove and clear Mediterranean water. A contained, private frame for swimming scenes, fashion and anything that needs rock, sea and sky together.
04 · Sand
A sandy beach reached along a private path. Soft ground, open sky and the Tyrrhenian Sea — a second coastline within the same property, without moving the unit.
Spaces, in detail
Only what exists at the property is listed. Crew capacity, power, parking and access windows are confirmed per project, not published in advance.
The location book
Select an image to view it larger. Photographs show the property as it is; no set was built for them.
Typical productions
The house works best for productions that want the Mediterranean to be real: the light, the salt, the sound and the horizon.
Editorial fashion and beauty. Advertising campaigns and product stories. Film and television scenes. Music videos. Catalogues and e-commerce. Portraits, architecture and interiors features. Brand films and documentaries about the coast.
If your treatment needs a constructed set, a sound stage or a large-scale build, this is the wrong address — and we will say so quickly.
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Practicalities
We publish no crew capacity, no fee card and no technical specification, because a house is not a studio. Everything below is agreed in writing for your dates.
How many people and vehicles the property can take on a given day, and where they can be based, is confirmed after we see the brief.
Electrical supply and technical infrastructure vary with the production. Generators, cabling and additional equipment are arranged by the production.
Vehicle access, loading and parking are agreed for each shoot. We do not promise space in advance of knowing what is arriving.
Filming authorisations, local requirements and insurance are agreed per project. The production obtains what the law requires.
Access windows, set-up and strike times are set around the house and its neighbours, and confirmed before the shoot.
Location fees and any crew accommodation are quoted for the project. The villa has three units and four bedrooms; combining a shoot with a stay is confirmed case by case.
We do not publish distances or drive times. Roc Villa Bay is in Castiglioncello, in the comune of Rosignano Marittimo, province of Livorno, on the Etruscan Riviera. Travel logistics are confirmed for your dates.
How it works
Dates, intended use, crew size, equipment and the frames you have in mind. The more concrete the brief, the more useful our answer.
A recce can be arranged by agreement when the villa is free, so your director and production designer can see the light and the distances for themselves.
Access, hours, crew numbers, vehicles, insurance and fees are set out in writing. Nothing is reserved until that confirmation exists.
Location enquiries
Write with your dates, the production company and a short treatment. We answer personally, and we will tell you honestly whether the house fits.
Briefs are read by the owners, usually within a day.
Questions
Roc Villa Bay is at Via Aurelia 1111, 57016 Castiglioncello (LI), in the comune of Rosignano Marittimo, province of Livorno, on the Etruscan Riviera. It is a private house above the Tyrrhenian Sea, not a studio or an events venue.
Editorial fashion, advertising and campaigns, film and television scenes, music videos, catalogue and e-commerce shoots, portraits and architecture or interiors features. The house is particularly strong for sea-view interiors, garden scenes and anything that needs a real Mediterranean coast rather than a constructed set.
We do not publish a crew capacity. The number of people, the number of vehicles and the space each department needs are confirmed per project in writing, after we have seen your brief.
Electrical supply, parking, vehicle access and technical infrastructure vary with the production and the season. We confirm what is possible for your dates rather than promising facilities in advance. Generators and additional equipment are arranged by the production.
Permits, filming authorisations, insurance and any local requirements are agreed per project. We tell you what the property can support and what the production must obtain; nothing is implied by a general page.
Yes, a visit can be arranged by agreement, subject to the house being free. Write with your dates, the intended use and the size of the team, and we will answer honestly about availability.
The villa has three private units and four bedrooms and is primarily a house for stays. Whether accommodation can be combined with a production is confirmed for each project; we do not publish it as a package.
The coast around the location
A village of pine woods, small bays and late-nineteenth-century villas on the Livorno coast — and the place Roc Villa Bay calls home.
A guide to the Spiaggia di Santa Lucia on the Livorno coast: the sand, the neighbouring bays, the shoreline and how to spend a day there.
Below the garden, reached by stone steps, a rocky cove and clear water: the second of Roc Villa Bay's two private accesses to the sea.
