Clifftop sea-view villas, traditional Ibicenco fincas and architect-led modern estates — hand-scouted by a production-led location agency. Interiors and exteriors on a single property, with owners who have already read a call sheet.
Lovely Locations is a production-first location agency based in the Balearics. Every villa on this page has been walked by our scouts with a film crew in mind — we have tested the main salon for reverb on dialogue, measured the finca gate against a grip truck, noted where a genset can sit without bleeding engine hum onto the lavs, and tracked how the light moves across each terrace from morning through magic hour.
We lean into privately owned villas because they give producers what a hotel usually cannot: full exclusivity on the shoot window, shootable interiors and exteriors on one address, and owners comfortable signing a proper film-use location agreement rather than a holiday-let paste-in. Nobody wanders through the frame at lunch.
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Es Cubells, Porroig, Cap Martinet and the north-coast cliffs above Es Portitxol. Infinity-edge pools, terraces that hold golden hour without a location move and sea in every frame — built for campaign hero work and music-video opens.
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Whitewashed walls, juniper-beam sabina ceilings, olive-grove courtyards and the restrained geometry of a 200-year-old payesa. Period-appropriate interiors for character drama, brand films and commercials that need a non-contemporary backdrop without leaving the island.
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Minimal white-on-white interiors, considered pool geometry, flush glazing and styled kitchens that already look like a set. For treatments that need clean frames, controlled art direction and minimal dressing room-to-room.
Explore design villas →You hold the full property for the shoot window. No hotel corridor chatter bleeding into dialogue, no check-in desk visible through a bedroom window, no rooms to work around when you need to lock off a hallway or an infinity pool for a hero shot.
A villa gives you continuous coverage — living room, kitchen, bedroom, terrace, pool, driveway — on a single address. Art direction travels room-to-room rather than location-to-location, and the call sheet behaves like a floor plan.
Ibicenco stone and tiled floors give live acoustics; double-height modern villas can reverb near glass. We pre-flag the rooms that hold up on dialogue, the ones that need a blanket set-up and which HVAC and pool-pump cycles to know about before a take.
Most rural Ibiza fincas sit behind narrow sandy tracks and stone walls. We measure the gate against a 7.5-tonne truck, note the first turning circle and scout a genset position that keeps engine noise off the dialogue takes and off the neighbours.
Our villa owners sign a proper location-agreement with film-use language — filming permitted, interior and exterior rights, defined crew numbers, wardrobe and HMU rooms — rather than a paste-in clause on a summer rental contract.
Many Ibiza villas sleep 6–20. Director and DP in the main house, HMU in a guest suite, wardrobe in a pool house. A 06:00 call is actually 06:00, not 06:00 plus a 25-minute transfer from a San Antonio hotel.
Under Article 36.2 of Spain’s Corporate Income Tax Act (Ley del Impuesto sobre Sociedades), international productions can claim 30% on the first €1,000,000 of eligible Spanish spend and 25% on the remainder, subject to a €1,000,000 minimum spend and a €20,000,000 cap per feature. Ibiza sits inside the Balearic Islands, which run under this national regime — not the enhanced Canary Islands programme (54% on the first million, 45% thereafter, capped at €36M) that applies only to productions shooting in Tenerife, Gran Canaria and the other Canary islands. A qualified Spanish producer registered with the AEAT is required to file for the rebate, and we can introduce one at shortlist stage.
Filming on private villa property with written owner consent is usually straightforward, but anything that touches public land — a drone take-off, a catering truck on a municipal verge, crossing a beach or a coastal path — lands under one of Ibiza’s five municipalities: Eivissa, Sant Antoni de Portmany, Santa Eulà ria des Riu, Sant Josep de sa Talaia and Sant Joan de Labritja. Each ayuntamiento runs its own permit process and fees. Ibiza Town typically expects a minimum of 7 working days’ notice; the other four ayuntamientos generally want 10 business days. Beach-adjacent work falls under Demarcación de Costas for the 100-metre coastal zone. The Ibiza Film Office (Consell Insular d’Eivissa) provides free advisory and introductions; we handle the operational paperwork alongside them.
Power is the first question. Most Ibiza villas run on single-phase domestic supply sufficient for HMU, wardrobe and a modest HMI rig, but anything approaching a full lighting package needs a silent genset on the property — we note where it can sit without bleeding noise and where the cable run goes. Blackout capability varies wildly: clifftop glass-box villas are effectively unshootable in daylight without large negative fill; traditional fincas with shuttered windows and thick walls blackout cleanly for interior night work. Truck access, turn-around space for a 7.5t grip truck, pool-house and annex dressing for HMU and wardrobe, and crew parking for 6–15 vehicles — these are the real differentiators, not bedroom count.
Ibiza Airport (IBZ) sits on the south coast a short drive from most of the island’s villa clusters: roughly 10 minutes to the south-west Sant Josep zone (Es Cubells, Porroig, Cala Jondal), 15–20 minutes to Santa Gertrudis and Ibiza Town, 25–35 minutes to Santa Eulà ria and Cap Martinet, and 40–50 minutes to the northern villages of Sant Joan and Sant Miquel. Direct flights run from most European hubs — London, Paris, Berlin, Zurich, Milan — April through October, with a thinner winter schedule via Palma or Barcelona. For trucked kit from Madrid or Barcelona, the Balearia and Trasmediterránea ferries from Dénia, Valencia and Barcelona take 2.5–8 hours and accept articulated vehicles; Formentera is a 30-minute fast-ferry hop from Ibiza Town if your treatment needs a secondary island look within one shoot week.
Share the treatment, a date window and a rough crew size and we come back inside 24 hours with three to five Ibiza villas that fit — availability-checked, with real photos, technical notes on power, blackout and access, and an honest read on permit and noise-window risk for your brief. The shortlist is free; agency coordination is only charged if you want us to run the full production layer alongside the Ibiza Film Office.
Yes — through Spain’s national regime. Ibiza is part of the Balearic Islands, which run under Article 36.2 of the Spanish Corporate Income Tax Act: 30% on the first €1,000,000 of eligible Spanish spend and 25% on the remainder, subject to a €1,000,000 minimum spend and a €20,000,000 cap per feature. Ibiza does not qualify for the enhanced Canary Islands programme (54%/45%), which is specific to the Canary tax jurisdiction. A qualified Spanish producer registered with the AEAT must file the application — we can introduce one at shortlist stage so the rebate mechanics are locked before the shoot dates are committed.
It depends on the municipality. The ayuntamiento of Eivissa (Ibiza Town) typically expects a minimum of 7 working days’ lead time for a shoot application, while Sant Antoni, Santa Eulà ria, Sant Josep and Sant Joan generally want 10 business days for public-land filming. Beach-adjacent work adds a Demarcación de Costas layer for the coastal 100-metre zone. Private-villa interior and exterior work with the owner’s consent does not need a municipal permit, but a drone take-off, a truck on a municipal verge or any crossing of public access does. We lodge paperwork alongside the Ibiza Film Office from the moment a date is firmed.
Ibiza’s residential noise ordinance caps outdoor sound at 55 dB during the day (08:00–23:00) and 45 dB at night (23:00–08:00), enforced by the local ayuntamiento and the Guà rdia Civil. In practice 23:00 is the hard cut-off for amplified music and continuous generator noise near neighbouring properties. For night-exterior shoots that need playback, lighting-fans or a genset running past eleven, we file a noise-exemption notice with the municipality in advance and position the generator to keep engine hum off the dialogue mics regardless of the legal window.
Often yes, but check the airspace first. Spanish drone rules under AESA (Agencia Estatal de Seguridad Aérea) apply, and pilots must check the Enaire Drones map for the specific villa. Large parts of southern Ibiza sit inside the Ses Salines Natural Park; the islet of Es Vedrà and Es Vedranell are a protected reserve with flight restrictions, and the IBZ airport CTR covers the south-west coast. Take-off from private villa land with owner consent is typically straightforward in the Open category; take-off from public land, urban areas or a protected reserve needs a prior permit. We check airspace class, natural-park overlay and operational category for each villa before confirming a shoot.
Most are suitable — but it varies room by room. Traditional Ibicenco fincas with stone walls and tiled floors give live acoustics in the main salon and usually need a sound-blanket set-up for clean dialogue; modern double-height villas with glass walls and polished concrete can show similar reverb near the glazing. Smaller bedrooms, rooms with rugs and soft furnishing, and covered terraces with matting are the quieter choices. We flag which rooms hold up on the recce, note HVAC and pool-pump cycle times, and identify the cleanest dialogue spaces before a shoot day is locked. For purpose-built sound-stage work, Ibiza is not the right option.
At most Ibiza villas the genset sits 40–80 metres from the main interior on an existing gravel pad or cleared section of garden — far enough to keep engine noise off dialogue, close enough for manageable cable runs. Catering is cleanest in a converted outbuilding, pool-house kitchen or covered terrace so crew aren’t eating in frame. Unit-base parking depends on the approach: if the finca track can hold trucks and 10–15 crew vehicles on-property, we base on-site; if it’s a narrow sandy lane, we introduce the neighbouring payés owner for a nearby field. All of this goes into the recce sketch we send with the shortlist.
Many Ibiza villas sleep between 6 and 20 in beds — Villa Jondal, Ocean Paradise, Can Felipe, Villa Na Xamena and the larger fincas hold director, DP, producer and HMU comfortably on-site. For crews above that headcount we pair the villa with hotel overflow rather than forcing bunk-beds: a 15–30 minute transfer to a three- or four-star hotel in Santa Eulà ria, Ibiza Town or Playa d’en Bossa that actually understands production call times. Tell us the crew size at shortlist stage and we document exactly where each role sleeps and transit times for the call sheet.
