Similarly, that’s the real exterior of restaurant Oranjee, 498 Keizersgracht, Amsterdam, but the lightbulb-filled interior where Hazel and Gus enjoy a romantic champagne dinner courtesy of the apparently generous van Houten, The hotel interior, with the beautiful stained glass windows, is the Mansions on Fifth, 5105 Fifth Avenue at Amberson Avenue in Shadyside, east Pittsburgh. In both the book and the movie, the couple stays at the Hampshire Hotel - Amsterdam American, LeidsekPN Amsterdam (tel: +31.20.556.3000)
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It appears part of the movie was shot around Keizersgracht 510, an area also worth visiting for the local shopping.
This is part of the larger area called "De Negen Straatjes," (the Nine Streets). Gus and Hazel are seen walking and embracing near one of Amsterdam's main three canals – Herengracht, Prinsengracht, and Keizersgracht. When Gus uses his wish to take Hazel to Amsterdam to question her favourite author, Peter van Houten (Willem Dafoe), there are establishing shots of the city but interiors for the European trip were largely filmed in Pittsburgh. For the film, it was meticulously recreated at Hartwood Acres Park, 200 Hartwood Acres, north of the city. The fibreglass construction can be found in the 100 Acres: The Virginia B Fairbanks Art and Nature Park, on the grounds of the Indianapolis Museum of Art in Indianapolis. The Funky Bones ‘skeleton’ installation, where Gus tells Hazel they’ll be going to Amsterdam, is based on a real art piece in Indiana, appropriately designed by Dutch artists Atelier Van Lieshout. The mall bookshop in which they hang out is the branch of Barnes & Noble in the famous Monroeville Mall, 200 Mall Circle Drive– famous because of being taken over by the no-longer-dead in George A Romero’s 1978 Dawn Of The Dead. Gus’s house is 300 Heritage Drive on the corner of Penhurst Drive, Wilkins Township just west of Monroeville Mall And, yes, his basement was filmed here too. Hazel lives with her loving and determinedly upbeat parents ( Laura Dern and Sam Trammell) at 821 11th Street in Oakmont, a few miles northeast of downtown Pittsburgh. The church retains its real name, though its location is of course changed to 'Indiana'. Hazel Grace bumps into Gus at her cancer support group, held “literally in the heart of Jesus” in St Paul's Episcopal Church, 1066 Washington Road, Mount Lebanon, south of Pittsburgh. The book is set in 'Indianapolis', but the film was made around Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and in the Netherlands capital, Amsterdam. To its credit, Josh Boone’s’s film of John Green’s YA novel largely avoids the sentimentality and the pitfalls of the ‘terminal romance’ genre as 17-year-old Hazel ( Shailene Woodley), living with a probably terminal cancer, bonds with and falls in love with 18-year-old Gus ( Ansel Elgort), who’s in recovery after living through a similar experience.