Every Remarried Empress location you can walk into yourself: five castles play one empire
Navier's empire doesn't exist on any map, but you can still walk through its front door.
The Remarried Empress premiered on Disney+ on November 3, 2026, with a Korean cast playing a European-style court: Shin Min-a as Empress Navier, Ju Ji-hoon as Emperor Sovieshu, Lee Jong-suk as Heinrey and Lee Se-young as Rashta. The story, adapted from Alphatart's web novel and its webtoon, takes place in two invented kingdoms, the Eastern Empire and the Western Kingdom. Early reports suggested the drama might move the setting to East Asia. Instead, the production went to Europe.
Director Jo Soo-won wanted real walls. "I wanted the spaces the characters inhabit to feel grounded and physical," he said.
Filming started in Prague in June 2025. According to the Czech Film Commission, the crew then spent 15 shooting days in the Czech Republic, from June 15 to July 7, at five castles, a garden and a medieval town. The imperial court is in Germany.
Schleissheim Palace, Germany
The Eastern Empire's imperial court is Schleissheim Palace in Oberschleißheim, just north of Munich. Jo's team scouted a long list of real locations before settling on it. "Among them, we found Schleissheim Castle in Germany and thought it was perfect for the Eastern Empire's imperial court," he said ahead of the premiere.
It's a whole complex: the Old Palace, the Baroque New Palace built for Elector Max Emanuel of Bavaria, the smaller Lustheim Palace and a formal garden with canals running between them.
How to visit: The palaces are open Tuesday to Sunday, 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. from April to September and 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. from October to March. The garden opens at 8 a.m. year-round, and the fountains run from April through September. There are no regular guided tours, but the New Palace rents audio guides in English.
The five Czech castles
The Czech Film Commission lists five castles on the shoot.
Jaroměřice nad Rokytnou — a huge Baroque château in the Vysočina region, with a church built into the complex and formal gardens along the river.
Hrádek u Nechanic — a Romantic Gothic castle in eastern Bohemia, built in the mid-1800s for the Harrach family and designed to look like an English country estate. If any of these castles feels like it belongs in the Western Kingdom, it's this one.
Švihov — a late Gothic water castle in the Plzeň region, ringed by moats that could be flooded to keep attackers out.
Červená Lhota — the red one. The Renaissance château sits on a rock in the middle of a pond in South Bohemia, reached by a stone bridge.
All four are state-owned, run by the Czech National Heritage Institute and open for guided tours from spring to fall.
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Tochovice — the odd one out. This Empire-style château in Central Bohemia was built after 1800 for Dorothea de Talleyrand-Périgord, passed to the Schwarzenbergs in 1840, was seized by the communist state in 1948 and went back to the family's descendants in the 1990s. It's privately owned, so check before you plan a visit.
The gardens of Kroměříž
Navier and Heinrey's garden scenes were shot in Kroměříž, in Moravia. The town's archbishop's château and its two gardens, the Flower Garden and the Chateau Garden, are on UNESCO's World Heritage list. The Flower Garden's long colonnade and clipped hedges look like they were planted for a royal romance.
How to visit: Both gardens are open to visitors.
Kutná Hora
Kutná Hora, a former silver-mining town an hour east of Prague, is on UNESCO's list too. The production shot in its streets and dressed the old storefronts with shop signs in Korean.
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