Mamma Mia!

Sophie (Amanda Seyfried), who grew up on the island with her mother Donna (Meryl Streep), is to marry her fiancé Sky in the small white chapel on top of this rock. The whole island climbs up for the wedding, and here Sam (Pierce Brosnan), one of Sophie's three possible fathers, finally asks Donna to marry him. A real filming location: the chapel was dressed up for the film, while its interior was a studio set in England. A brief view of it returns in Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again.

Access · You walk down from the road, then climb about 200 steep stone steps with handrails. Wear proper shoes and bring water. It is a working church, often booked for weddings. Check before you go.

Kalokairi's beach bar and wooden jetty stood on this sandy cove, built for the film and later taken down. Here Tanya (Christine Baranski), one of Donna's two old friends, sings 'Does Your Mother Know' to a young man who is chasing her, Sophie and Sky sing 'Lay All Your Love on Me', and Sky's friends rise from the waves for his stag party. A real filming location.

Access · Organised beach with a bar and sunbeds; the film's jetty and bar are gone. The last stretch is a dirt track and the car park fills up in July and August.

The Villa Donna, the small hotel Donna runs on the island, was imagined on the headland above this bay; the building itself was a studio set. Here Sophie reads her mother's old diary to her two best friends, and after a sailing trip she and her three possible fathers jump from the rocks into the sea. A real filming location.

Access · Busy organised beach with a café and music in summer. The rocky headland above is hard to reach: don't try to climb it.

A small cove with pine trees growing on a white rock. It appears while Sophie reads her mother's diary and pictures Donna's summers as a young woman, and during the sailing trip with her three possible fathers: the pines on the little headland can be recognised in the film. The island's tourism site also places here a picnic on the path to the Villa Donna. A real filming location.

Access · Wild cove with no services. The track down is bumpy: many people park on the main road and walk about 20 minutes.

To reach Kalokairi, the made-up island of the film, Harry (Colin Firth) and Sam, two of Sophie's possible fathers, arrive at this harbour in identical taxis and miss the ferry; Bill (Stellan Skarsgård), the third, offers them a ride on his sailing boat. The seafront shops were made to look older for the film. A real filming location.

Access · Public harbour, free, with bars and boat trips. Check before you go.

Not on Skopelos but on the Pelion coast of mainland Greece. Donna welcomes her old friends Rosie and Tanya at the jetty here, and the women of the island end their 'Dancing Queen' run along the shore by jumping off it into the sea. The wooden jetty was built for the film and later removed. A real filming location, standing in for Kalokairi.

Access · Tiny harbour with tavernas and two beaches. Parking is limited in summer.

Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again tells two stories: Sophie reopening the hotel of her late mother Donna, and the young Donna (Lily James) arriving on the island in 1979. Komiža, a fishing town on the west coast of Vis, was the heart of the shoot, and this lobster restaurant was dressed as a Greek taverna for a scene with Harry and Bill (Colin Firth and Stellan Skarsgård). A real filming location, standing in for Greece.

Access · Working restaurant: book ahead in summer. Check before you go.

The village square of Kalokairi, with its market, was built in front of this guesthouse and pizzeria in Vis town, and produce such as bread was brought over from Greece. The square appears in the flashbacks with the young Donna, and a stone staircase nearby is also seen in the film. A real filming location, standing in for a Greek village.

Access · Private business: look from the street or stop for a meal.

The harbour where the ferry from Split docks plays the port of Kalokairi: several characters arrive on the island here, and the tall stone houses of the waterfront are the backdrop for comic scenes with a fussy customs officer (Omid Djalili). Boat tour operators add that the young Donna misses her ferry here. A real filming location.

Access · Working port: keep clear of ferries and cars.

In a 1979 flashback, the young Donna and the young Bill sail a lovesick fisherman, Alexio, to the wedding of his beloved Apollonia so that he can stop it. They land at a little dock on the Prirovo peninsula, with this Franciscan monastery of St Jerome behind them. A real filming location.

Access · The outside can be seen freely; the church is not always open. Check before you go.

A remote bay in the far west of Vis, where the production built a wooden jetty and new paths for several song and dance scenes at Donna's hotel. Boat tour operators add that the 'Dancing Queen' number, with some 300 people, was filmed in the Barjaci area just to the north. A real filming location; the jetty is gone, and the Bella Donna hotel seen above it was added by computer.

Access · Remote, with no services. The road is rough: a boat is easier.

A pebble cove closed in by tall cliffs, with only a narrow gap to the open sea. The Croatian film commission lists it among the film's locations and boat tours say it is glimpsed during Donna and Sam's first boat trip; one travel site says it does not appear, so expect a brief view at most. A real filming location.

Access · A steep, rocky footpath of about 15 to 20 minutes, or a water taxi. Very crowded at midday in summer. Check before you go.

The 'silver beach', named after its pale stones. In a 1979 flashback, the young Donna takes a romantic moonlit walk here with the young Sam (Jeremy Irvine). A real filming location.

Access · Natural pebble beach with little shade. Check before you go.

A real filming location. In the opening flashback, set in 1979, young Donna and her friends Rosie and Tanya finish university in Oxford: Donna starts her graduation speech and turns it into the song "When I Kissed the Teacher". The college's medieval dining hall was used for the inside, and the college for the outside shots as the friends cycle off to the river.

Access · Paid entry (12 pounds for adults in 2026); visitors go in from New College Lane. From 10 March to 31 October every day 10:00-17:00 (last entry 16:30); from 1 November to 8 March closed on Mondays, other days 11:00-15:00 (Saturday 10:00-16:30). The hall is not always open to visitors and the college can close for events. Check the visiting page before you go.