Liz Gilbert, a New York writer, has a house, a husband and a career, and realises she is unhappy. After her divorce she gives herself a year of travel: four months in Italy to learn the pleasure of eating, a stay at an ashram in India to learn to pray, and a return to Bali, where an old medicine man once read her future, to find balance, and finally love. Based on Elizabeth Gilbert's bestselling memoir, it stars Julia Roberts and Javier Bardem and was filmed in Rome, Naples, India and Bali.
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Eat Pray Love follows Liz, a New York writer who, after her divorce, spends a year travelling to find herself again: eating in Italy, praying in India and loving in Bali. Its Rome is small and walkable. Start at Piazza Navona, where Liz eats gelato beside two nuns, have a coffee at Caffè Domiziano, where she meets her friend Sofi, and see her flat on Via dei Portoghesi nearby.
In Rome, dinner at Santa Lucia is two minutes from Piazza Navona, Castel Sant'Angelo is across the river, best at sunset, and the Mausoleum of Augustus is a short walk north. Antica Pizzeria da Michele is in Naples, a day trip by fast train. In Bali, base yourself in Ubud: the Ubud Art Market is in the centre, Ketut Liyer's house is just south, and the Tegallalang rice terraces are to the north. Padang Padang Beach is on the south coast, a separate trip.
Check before you go: Da Michele always has a queue, the Mausoleum is closed and seen only from outside, and Ketut Liyer's house is a private family home. The India chapter, filmed at an ashram near Delhi, is left out of this guide. Rome's other classic films, Roman Holiday and La Dolce Vita, are a few streets away.
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A real filming location, and the image on the poster. Liz, newly arrived in Rome to rediscover the pleasure of eating, sits on a bench in front of the church of Sant'Agnese in Agone and enjoys a gelato next to two nuns. She also walks past Bernini's Fountain of the Four Rivers in the middle of the square.
Access · Public square, free at any time.
A real filming location. Liz's Italian chapter opens on the top terrace of the castle: having just left her life in New York, she looks out over the domes and rooftops of Rome as the sun goes down and thinks about her new start.
Access · Museum with a ticket; the terrace is part of the visit. Check opening times before you go.
A real filming location. Liz has her morning coffee and pastry at a table on Piazza Navona and meets Sofi, a young Swedish woman also in Rome to learn Italian, who becomes her closest friend in Italy.
Access · Working café and restaurant: sit down as a customer. Prices on the square are high, check the menu first.
A real filming location. The outside of the old, slightly run-down building where Liz rents a flat in Rome, with no hot water and a lot of charm, a few minutes from Piazza Navona.
Access · Private residential building: look from the street only and respect the residents.
A real filming location. Liz, by now confident in Italian, orders dinner for her new friends: fried artichokes, bucatini all'amatriciana, tripe, clams and much more, with plenty of wine. The scene was filmed on the restaurant's terrace on a small square just behind Piazza Navona.
Access · Working restaurant: booking is a good idea. Check before you go.
A filming location named by fan guides. Liz visits the ruined tomb of the first Roman emperor, which has been sacked, rebuilt and abandoned many times over the centuries, and finds comfort in it: ruin, she writes, can be the road to transformation. The film shows the mausoleum from the air; some of her walk may have been filmed elsewhere.
Access · Closed to visitors since 6 June 2022, according to the Sovrintendenza Capitolina: you see the round brick drum and the cypresses from Piazza Augusto Imperatore, not the inside.
A real filming location. On a day trip to Naples, Liz takes Sofi to this old pizzeria, which serves almost nothing but margherita and marinara. Sofi worries about the calories; Liz tells her to stop feeling guilty and enjoy her pizza, and they decide to buy bigger jeans.
Access · Very popular: there is usually a queue, and you take a number at the door. Check before you go.
A real filming location. Ketut Liyer was a real Balinese medicine man who, in the book and the film, reads Liz's palm and predicts she will come back to Bali. When she returns, she spends her days with him in his family compound, copying his old notes and learning to meditate. The crew filmed at his real home; Ketut Liyer died in 2016 and his family still lives here.
Access · Private family home. Relatives have welcomed visitors in the past, but this is not guaranteed: ask politely and check before you go.
A real filming location. Liz and Felipe, a Brazilian divorcé living in Bali who will become her great love, stroll together among the stalls of Ubud's busy market, opposite the royal palace.
Access · Public market, free to walk around; bargaining is normal. Check opening hours before you go.
A real filming location. Back in Bali, Liz rides a bicycle through green rice fields on her way to see Ketut, one of the most remembered images of the film. The stepped terraces of Tegallalang, north of Ubud, are where many fans go to find that view.
Access · Paths cross private farmland: local farmers may ask for a small donation, and parts can be slippery. Check before you go.
A real filming location. The beach scenes of Liz's Bali chapter were filmed on this small cove, where she spends time with Felipe and lets herself fall in love again. The beach bar seen in the film was built for the shoot and is not there.
Access · Public beach with a small entry fee, reached by steep stairs through a gap in the rock. Strong waves at times: check before you go.
Not at the moment.
The Mausoleum of Augustus has been closed to visitors since June 2022, according to the Sovrintendenza Capitolina; you see it from Piazza Augusto Imperatore.
Yes.
The top terrace of Castel Sant'Angelo is part of the museum visit.
Check opening times before you go.
In Naples, not Rome.
Antica Pizzeria da Michele serves almost only margherita and marinara; there is usually a queue and you take a number at the door.
Maybe.
Ketut Liyer's home is a private family home; relatives have welcomed visitors in the past, but it is not guaranteed.
Ask politely.
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Liz meets Sofi
Walk ~5 min
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Liz's Rome on foot: from the Mausoleum of Augustus to Castel Sant'Angelo
Liz's Italian months in one walk: the ruin that comforts her, her flat, the square of the gelato and of Sofi, the dinner on the terrace and the sunset over the domes.
Time the walk to reach the castle terrace before sunset, and book Santa Lucia if you want to eat there afterwards.
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Walk ~8 min
Liz's flat
Walk ~5 min
Gelato with the nuns
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Liz orders for everyone
Walk ~14 min
Walk ~5 min
Liz's first evening in Rome
Walk ~13 min
Campo de' Fiori and its market appear in the 2010 film among the Rome places Liz explores.
Walk ~7 min
Walk ~5 min
Walk ~10 min
Walk ~5 min
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The garden restaurant near Piazza Navona where Liz orders dinner for her friends in Italian in Eat Pray Love
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Largo Febo 12, 00186 Roma
The old Naples pizzeria, here since 1870, where Liz takes Sofi for pizza margherita in Eat Pray Love
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Via Cesare Sersale 1, 80139 Napoli
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Café with a view over the Tegallalang rice terraces, where Liz cycles to see Ketut in Eat Pray Love
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Ceking Rice Terrace, Jl. Raya Tegallalang, Tegallalang, Gianyar 80561
Italian kitchen and pizzeria on Jalan Raya Pengosekan with lunch deals, near the Agung Rai Museum of Art
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Jl. Raya Pengosekan No.108, Ubud, Gianyar, Bali 80571
Café with a pool and swing overlooking the Tegallalang rice terraces, open until 9 pm
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Jl. Raya Ceking, Tegallalang, Gianyar 80561
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