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Director: Asa Mader
Year: 2008
From: Viva La Vida Or Death And All His Friends

The video of Violet Hill, directed by Asa Mader, was shot in Sicily. The news was reported by the newspaper Il Mattino, revealing that the shooting site was set near the dam of Nicoletti Lake of Enna and it was impossible to get nearby, it was really locked up. Actually most of the video was shot in the Catania district.

Helped by a friend of us from Sicily, we could identify the landscape and the settings of the video, published online for the first time on Thursday, June 15th on a Dutch website, and then with the help of Coldplaying.com too. The first pictures show, we can guess, the volcano Etna (These shootings were then put together, going on, to those picturing the hills of Enna close to the Nicoletti Lake, already mentioned above). The mansion in which Coldplay are busy in playing and moving like soldiers (you know, the set where Chris shakes the hammer) is Palazzo Biscari, the most important private building of that kind in Catania. The period of the building can be dated back around the end of the 17th century, in fact it was risen again thanks to a redecoration wanted by Paternò Castello Prince of Biscari family, after the earthquake of 1693 (in fact, it is still possible to notice some cracks due to the tremors).

The dome is full of wall paintings, pictures, marbles, halls, paintings and it was also, in the past, a site for museums and art galleries. Among the famous visitors of the dome, we can recall the writer Johann Wolfgang Goethe, who, during his trip in Italy, was welcomed by the Prince of Biscari on May 3rd, 1787.

Via Coldplayzone.it