If only they were also used as central European locations rather than standing in for England. Because to Hollywood (and Americans in general) the Middle Ages are set in England by default. Maybe in France, but only during the hundred years war when the English were there or, if they’re being generous, in Scotland.
Of course this isn’t the case here, where the story is actually set in central Europe but I have noticed this a lot because building styles just aren’t the same, so you can always tell when something was shot in historic buildings but of the wrong region.
I noticed this recently with the British Musketeers TV show. They did go to the trouble of finding baroque buildings to represent 17th century France but the style of half-timbering is so Central European it couldn’t have been shot anywhere else but in Germany, Czechia (where it was shot) or Poland. Another one was the Daisy Ridley Hamlet adaption Ophelia which I liked, but which for some reason represents the Danish sand-dune-built castle Elsinore as a wooded mountain fortress. And the interiors are, again, central European rather than Southern Scandinavian when they’re not sound stage sets.
