Dubrovnik, Croatia (Porco Rosso)

Dubrovnik's walls and red roofs above the Adriatic, the sea wall running along the cliffs. Porco Rosso's seaplanes duel over the Adriatic between Italy and the Dalmatian coast, and Miyazaki has named Dubrovnik and the nearby islands as the setting he had in mind. War broke out there while the film was in production, and he has said it pushed a story meant to be light into something more serious. Miyazaki has also admitted he had never been to Croatia, so the film's coast is a dream of the place rather than a portrait of it.