"Casino Royale"
"Casino Royale" is Daniel Craig's first James Bond film. He doesn't yet have double-o status. But in typical James Bond style, he travels the globe.
There’s no ‘Madagascar’ and there’s no ‘Miami’. And no ‘Montenegro’. Most of the film was shot in the Czech Republic (with sets at Prague's famous Barrandov Studios) and the Bahamas.
But finally, he heads to Italy.
The lakeside sanatorium at which Bond recovers is Villa del Balbianello, near the village of Lenno, about 15 miles north of Como on Lake Como's western shore. The villa, standing on the tip of a steep, wooded promontory, was the ‘Lake Country’ retreat in Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones.
Finally Bond and Vesper head to Venice, sailing their yacht along the Canal Grande between the Accademia and Rialto bridges.
Bond and Vesper Lynd (Eva Green) sailed to Venice. While Vesper was standing at the helm of a yacht, Bond was writing a resignation letter on his laptop. As they were sailing along the Grand Canal, Vesper noticed Adolph Gettler (Richard Sammel), who was the Quantum agent.
Seen in the film , the 54 foot yacht named ‘Spirit’, was built by Spirit Yachts Ltd in Suffolk, UK. It was the first sailing yacht to go up the Grand Canal in Venice in 300 years.
When Bond and Vesper were approaching Venice, most famous buildings in the city were seen in background. There was tower of San Giorgio Maggiore on the left,
Saint Mark’s campanile on the right...
and Santa Maria della Salute in the middle.
The palazzo which appears to collapse into the water, is on Venice's Canal Grande opposite the Rialto's vegetable market.
It's still there. Its spectacular demise was reconstructed in the studio, on the 007 Stage at Pinewood in the UK. The row of houses seen next to the sinking palazzo can be found in the Cannaregio district in Venice. These houses are located close to the Rialto Bridge and visible four houses down to the left is Ca' da Mosto, a 13th-century Venetian-Byzantine style palazzo which is the oldest on the Grand Canal.
This Photo was taken by Wolfgang Moroder. A copy with annotations can be found here:
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Canal_Grande_from_Rialto_Bridge_Venice.jpg
More: https://bondlocations.wordpress.com/2017/03/03/casino-royale-in-venice/
Finally, the villa to which Bond traces the mysterious Mr White, is back on Lake Como. It's the 1920s faux-Medieval Villa La Gaeta, a private villa at Sant'Abbondio, on the edge of the lake in the shadow of the Bregagno, it is the mouth of the Val Senagra, a protected wildlife area still inhabited by deer... and very few secret agents.
There’s no ‘Madagascar’ and there’s no ‘Miami’. And no ‘Montenegro’. Most of the film was shot in the Czech Republic (with sets at Prague's famous Barrandov Studios) and the Bahamas.
But finally, he heads to Italy.
The lakeside sanatorium at which Bond recovers is Villa del Balbianello, near the village of Lenno, about 15 miles north of Como on Lake Como's western shore. The villa, standing on the tip of a steep, wooded promontory, was the ‘Lake Country’ retreat in Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones.
Finally Bond and Vesper head to Venice, sailing their yacht along the Canal Grande between the Accademia and Rialto bridges.
Bond and Vesper Lynd (Eva Green) sailed to Venice. While Vesper was standing at the helm of a yacht, Bond was writing a resignation letter on his laptop. As they were sailing along the Grand Canal, Vesper noticed Adolph Gettler (Richard Sammel), who was the Quantum agent.
Seen in the film , the 54 foot yacht named ‘Spirit’, was built by Spirit Yachts Ltd in Suffolk, UK. It was the first sailing yacht to go up the Grand Canal in Venice in 300 years.
When Bond and Vesper were approaching Venice, most famous buildings in the city were seen in background. There was tower of San Giorgio Maggiore on the left,
Saint Mark’s campanile on the right...
and Santa Maria della Salute in the middle.
The palazzo which appears to collapse into the water, is on Venice's Canal Grande opposite the Rialto's vegetable market.
It's still there. Its spectacular demise was reconstructed in the studio, on the 007 Stage at Pinewood in the UK. The row of houses seen next to the sinking palazzo can be found in the Cannaregio district in Venice. These houses are located close to the Rialto Bridge and visible four houses down to the left is Ca' da Mosto, a 13th-century Venetian-Byzantine style palazzo which is the oldest on the Grand Canal.
This Photo was taken by Wolfgang Moroder. A copy with annotations can be found here:
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Canal_Grande_from_Rialto_Bridge_Venice.jpg
More: https://bondlocations.wordpress.com/2017/03/03/casino-royale-in-venice/
Finally, the villa to which Bond traces the mysterious Mr White, is back on Lake Como. It's the 1920s faux-Medieval Villa La Gaeta, a private villa at Sant'Abbondio, on the edge of the lake in the shadow of the Bregagno, it is the mouth of the Val Senagra, a protected wildlife area still inhabited by deer... and very few secret agents.
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