A magical tale of conquering friendship and the eternal resistance of good and evil, invented by J. K. Rowling and transferred to the screen by Warner Bros. for the second decade it has been exciting the minds of fans of the fantasy genre. And films about the adventures of the young sorcerer Harry Potter attract not only with a detailed and multifaceted plot, but also with the magnificent landscapes of Great Britain and Scotland.
The road to Hogwarts
Picturesque mountain landscapes, where the West Highland Line is located, together with its now famous viaduct, consisting of 21 arches, amaze with its strict misty beauty. They were not chosen by chance. So mysterious and gloomy on the cloudy days of the British summer, they help to create the illusion of the reality of a magical world that an eleven-year-old orphan boy knows absolutely nothing about at the beginning of the story.
They are so strikingly different from the identical houses that surrounded Harry throughout his childhood that even the viewers on the other side of the screen are breathtaking. In fact, a very modern diesel train runs along this road, but from May to October you can ride on an old steam locomotive, filmed in films as the "Hogwarts Express", which in reality is called the "Jacobite Steam Train".
School of Witchcraft and Wizardry
The beautiful old-fashioned exteriors of the eight-story Hogwarts Castle are actually sixteen meters wide and are located today at Leavesden Studios in London. But the rock on which the castle in the film stands and the surrounding emerald hills are quite real and are located in the town of Glencoe in Scotland. The landscapes are easily recognizable from the frames from the fourth part of "The Goblet of Fire".
The inner halls, courtyards and bedrooms of Hogwarts were filmed in several places: for example, the large living room of the school is the dining room at the famous University of Oxford, and the gloomy old passages and the courtyard in which freshmen learned to fly in the first part were filmed at Enick Castle. built in the 11th century. By the way, this castle is inhabited, but some of its rooms are open to the public, and now you can see tourists there, proudly perched on brooms in the hope of mastering the art of flying.
Hogsmeath, the Forbidden Forest and others
Hogsmeath, the closest London station to Hogwarts and populated entirely by wizards, is actually a picturesque village of Gotland in North Yorkshire with a population of only 500. It was at the local train station that the field shooting of the final stop of the wizard train took place.
In Durham Cathedral of Christ, Virgin Mary and St. Cuthbert almost on the border with Scotland has an amazing lancet window through which Professor McGonagall first saw Harry riding a broomstick, rightly judging that he would be an excellent catcher in the Quidditch team from her department.
All kinds of magical creatures live in the mysterious and full of dangers forest surrounding Hogwarts: unicorns and phastrals, hippogriffs and centaurs, and it is located in Buckinghamshire and is called Black Park.
And, of course, Privet Drive, number 4. This is the very place where Harry lived before he found out that he was not an ordinary boy. The town where the shooting took place is called Little Winging, which is in Berkshire, and the street is called Picket Post Close.
