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15 famous James Bond film locations you can visit
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items Whether James Bond is leaping across ancient rooftops, racing down snowy slopes, languishing in luxurious lakeside residences or seeking out villains’ urban hideouts, one of the joys of a 007 movie is the places we get to travel to vicariously. Here’...
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Italy and its beautiful lakes have been the location for many of Bond’s escapades. Magnet for the rich, the famous and for super villains too, Lake Como made a suitably glam appearance in 2006’s Casino Royale. The lake’s deep blue waters are backed b...
Villa del Balbianello, Italy
With its mountain passes full of hair-pin bends and snowy slopes made for chase sequences, Switzerland is a prime location for action movies. As an offshore financial center to boot, the land-locked country makes a regular appearance in James Bond mo...
Schilthorn - Piz Gloria 360°- Restaurant, Switzerland
Like his flawed and restless hero, Ian Fleming was very well traveled and his explorations in Japan influenced his writing. The 1967 film You Only Live Twice was filmed in the photogenic country and sees Bond sent to Tokyo in search of the bad guys. ...
Himeji Castle, Japan
Jamaica has long been a favored location for the movie franchise. It’s in the DNA, after all, as the Caribbean island was very close to creator Ian Fleming’s heart – he wrote all 14 books at his home GoldenEye in Oracabessa on the northeast coast. Hi...
Laughing Waters Beach, Jamaica
The spectacular rock pillars of Meteora are one of Greece’s most unusual landscapes. Criss-crossed with ancient trails, the rocky outcrops rise out of the plains of Thessaly in central Greece and are home to one of the most important monastic communi...
Monastery of the Holy Trinity, Meteora Greece
The next installment keeps us in Italy with Bond driving from a car chase in Lake Garda to Siena with Mr White in his trunk at the start of 2008’s Quantum of Solace. The hilltop Tuscan city is a stunning setting for a high-octane chase across ancient...
Siena, Italy
Corfu’s handsome old town also played a starring role in For Your Eyes Only. Many action sequences were filmed around its imposing Old Fortress, a vast complex built by the Venetians that masqueraded as Albania in the movie. They were close: parts of...
Old Fortress, Corfu Greece
Exuberant Día de los Muertos (Day of the Dead) celebrations in Mexico City’s grand Zócalo form a stunning backdrop for the dramatic opener of Spectre (2015). With its huge flagpole and imposing buildings, including the Metropolitan Cathedral and the ...
Gran Hotel Ciudad de México, Mexico City
For all his foreign forays, the British secret agent always returns home – more often than not reporting into London's MI6 HQ. Bond creator Ian Fleming was born in Mayfair – you can see a blue plaque at 22b Ebury Street, which was his home between 19...
Mayfair
The World Is Not Enough also takes viewers far north of London and to Eilean Donan, a 13th-century castle in the western highlands which stars as the Scottish HQ of MI6. Once again, Scotland’s stunning wilderness makes a star turn in 2012’s Skyfall w...
Eilean Donan, Scotland
The romantic palaces and dreamy waterways of Rajasthan’s ravishing city Udaipur have long captured travelers' and artists’ imaginations. It mesmerised viewers in Octopussy when its Lake Palace, one-time summer residence of the city's rulers, appeared...
Taj Lake Palace, Udaipur
The ethereal limestone karst towers of Thailand’s Phang Nga Bay feature prominently in 1974’s The Man With The Golden Gun, appearing as Bond flies over to Scaramanga's island. The real-life rocky islands of Khao Phing Kan and Ko Tapu doubled as the h...
Phang Nga Bay, Thailand
Perched on a rocky outcrop on the edge of a sharp ravine, the southern Italian city of Matera has lured plenty of movie-makers with its spectacular setting, well-worn alleyways and atmospheric sassi (ancient cave dwellings). But the makers of Bond tr...
Matera, Italy
A string of idyllic islands, the beautiful Bahamas makes plenty of appearances in the Bond movie franchise. Thunderball (1965), The Spy Who Loved Me (1977) and Never Say Never Again (1983) all featured some filming on location in the Caribbean archip...
Nassau, The Bahamas
Istanbul is another handsome and history-rich city that has captivated Bond location scouts over the decades. The Turkish city dazzles in From Russia With Love, The World Is Not Enough and Skyfall. The latter thrills viewers with spectacular city sce...
Istanbul, Turkey