How to Visit the Real Filming Locations of Apple TV's Slow Horses, From London to France

Apple TV’s“Slow Horses”has spent four seasons making MI5’s dead-end department feel painfully real, and a big part of that is the setting. The good news for fans: most of it exists. The Slough House exterior is a building on Aldersgate Street near the Barbican, sitting above the Vecchio Parioli restaurant, and it’s free to walk past. Meanwhile, the fictional MI5 headquarters known as“The Park”used the Old Royal Naval College in Greenwich for its exterior, with visual effects completing the look. Both stops are easy to fold into a single London day.

The detail fans tend to love most is Beppe’s Café near Smithfield Market, which appears in the series under its real name and its real door number. That means your mid-tour coffee stop is also a genuine piece of the show. If you’re building an itinerary, pair the Aldersgate Street building with Smithfield, then head to Greenwich for the grand finale.

Season 4 pushed the map across the Channel. Filming took place in France’s Val-d’Oise region, including Saint-Clair-sur-Epte and Seraincourt, which stood in for the fictional town of Lavande. The Domaine de Seraincourt served as the exterior for the Les Arbres estate. It’s all reachable as a countryside day trip from Paris, which makes for a pretty great double feature: city espionage one day, French estate drama the next. So, which stop are you hitting first?