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Welcome to the Sticks (Bienvenue chez les Ch'tis) is set in Bergues, near Dunkirk, and filmed there, with scenes in Lille, Lens, Malo-les-Bains and Bruay-la-Buissière. A post-office manager from the south is sent north for two years and finds the warmest welcome of his life. The route follows the film from the café where Philippe crashes his bike to the belfry where the love story ends.
Vauban's fortifications, a UNESCO World Heritage group, include the citadels of Lille and Besançon, the Mont-Louis citadel, the ramparts of Saint-Martin-de-Ré, Mont-Dauphin, Neuf-Brisach and the Asfeld Bridge at Briançon. Louis XIV's military engineer drew a belt of strongholds around France. Each stop here is a place you can still walk through, and each shows a different way of making a border hard to cross. Stops follow the date each fortress was begun. Some of them are still working towns, not just monuments.
Three Wishes for Cinderella (Drei Haselnüsse für Aschenbrödel, 1973) was shot at Moritzburg Castle near Dresden and Švihov Castle in Bohemia, and the 2021 Norwegian remake at Trakai in Lithuania and Maihaugen in Lillehammer. The route follows the winter film from the Bohemian forests and the Babelsberg ballroom set to the Moritzburg stairs, then to the remake's locations.