Ahhh, I just stood here last weekend, to my blessed luck. This is the Palantino in Rome, about a mile from the Colosseum, looking out on ancient Rome from the west to the east!

The Arch of Septimus Severus

I'll give the official answers, with supplemental photos of the same places, when I get back to the US, which would be next week.
So far at least someone has guessed correctly on each one except #5, which indeed has a Star Wars connection, but no one has yet named the correct real-world location where I'm standing. (Tatouine and Gabes, while real places in Tunisia, are not correct. I'm not either of those places.)

I don't know the place, but I noticed the tennis shoe instead of the boot.

When are we going to get the official answers to these mystery pictures? I'm still wondering about Mystery Photo #2, the luminous lady of aluminum.

The forum in Rome! What an amazing place.

what? the roman forum?