Looks like Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix is set to shoot some scenes in Italy to take advantage of the beautiful countryside there.

From BadTaste.it through Coming Soon:

An Italian newspaper reports this morning that crew and production team members from Order of the Phoenix have been visiting a series of small medieval towns in the Savona area (near Genoa), with a view to shooting part of the movie in Italy...

...The mayor of Balestrino (one of the small towns) says people from WB have "surveyed" the locations, but are yet to get in touch with the local administration...

...The Mayor also says WB asked him to postpone any plans of renovation and repair to the ancient buildings - apparently, they don't want building sites and scaffoldings in the movie.

At least there's still a lot of filming over here in Scotland and England, originaly there was talk of the whole of the production leaving Scotland and indeed Britain. Not knowning the story myself I don't know how the rolling scenery of Italy will fit in so well, can anyone who has read the book shed some light on this?