Notting Hill and the love of books. Unforgettable places from the film

Tonight 17 May at 21:10 on La 5 will be broadcast “Notting Hill”. Considered one of the most beautiful romantic comedies of the 1990s, “Notting Hill” tells the love story between a London bookseller and a film star, played respectively by Hugh Grant and Julia Roberts. To frame their stories is the small book shop, run by William Thacker (Hugh Grant), which over time has become a sort of temple for lovers, a place of pilgrimage where hundreds of couples exchange theirs every year. promises of love.

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The Notting Hill Library

Better known as The Travel Book Cothe movie library really exists and is called The Notting Hill Bookshop. “Over the past 5 years, we have seen an increase in such requests,” James Malin, co-owner with his brother Howard of the shop at 13 Blenheim Crescent, told The Telegraph. “They come from all over the globe. We have had people from Australia, America, China and Japan ”, Malin specified, not excluding that the trend is favored precisely by the upcoming twentieth anniversary of the cult film with Hugh Grant and Julia Roberts. In fact, it is precisely among the shelves of this library that Julia Roberts, in the role of Hollywood star Anna Scott, asked Wiliam Thacker to be loved like a normal girl.

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The blue door

In the film, the penniless Notting Hill bookseller lives in a house with an unmistakable blue door. The house really exists and today Richard Curtis, the screenwriter of the film, lives there. It is located in Notting Hill at 280 Westbourne Park Road, on the corner opposite the Coffee Republic of Portobello Road.

The secret garden

One night Julia Robert and Hugh Grant climb over a gate and find themselves in the heart of a secret garden. This is the Rosmead Gardens on Rosmead Road, approximately 300 meters west of Portobello Road. The garden exists, but we can only imagine it, since it is a private property and therefore cannot be accessed.

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The Notting Hill bench

If, on the other hand, you are looking for the famous Notting Hill bench with the engraving “For June who loves this garden from Joseph who always sat beside her”, you will not find it in the garden in Rosmead Road, nor in London, but in Australia in the Queens Gardens in the city of Perth.

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