It’s not a hotel at all, but the Instituto Nacional de Cultura (the National Institute of Culture) on Plaza de Francia, built in 1931, originally to house the Supreme Court of Justice. You won’t be able to, though, not even posing as a lottery winner. Unimpressed by the modest digs offered by agent Fields ( Gemma Arterton), he heads for the ‘Andean Grand Hotel’. With a new passport, Bond hares off to ‘La Paz, Bolivia’ – well, no – it’s back to Panama, this time Panama City, at the other end of the canal. Quantum Of Solace location: Greene’s desert hideout: the Residencia, Paranal, Chile | Photograph: European Organisation for Astronomical research in the Southern Hemisphere And the good news is – you can now rent the tower as luxury holiday accommodation. Mathis’ home is Torre di Talamonaccio, a restored Medieval tower on the coast, a couple of miles east of Talamone itself. For a new passport and plastic, he takes a boat trip back to Italy to visit his friend Mathis ( Giancarlo Giannini) at Talamone in southern Tuscany. The astonishing ‘eye’ design was the actual set for Philipp Himmelmann’s spectacular 2007 production of Tosca.Īfter – oops! – offing a Special Branch agent, Bond finds his documents have been cancelled and his movements seriously restricted. On the shore of Lake Constance, the largest floating stage in the world hosts the Bregenz Festival from mid-July to mid-August, with a new opera production every two years. The strikingly modern opera house, where members of the nefarious organisation meet up during a performance of Puccini’s Tosca, is the Festspielhaus Bregenz. Meanwhile, Bond is tailing the shifty Mr Greene to Bregenz, at the eastern tip of Lake Constance in Austria. Quantum Of Solace location: meeting at the opera: Bregenz Festspielhaus, Bregenz, Austria | Photograph: Bregenz Festival More of Siena’s medieval landmarks can be seen in the 2010 romance Letters To Juliet. Your best bet is to plan ahead and book a room overlooking the Piazza.Īlthough the race footage seen in the film is the real thing, it was shot some months before principal photography began, and craftily edited into the action.Īmazingly, the ensuing chase across the tiles above the city was not faked in the studio, but filmed on the actual rooftops of Siena (don’t worry – despite appearances, precautions were taken to avoid any damage to the historic buildings). Entrance is free but, as you can see, the crowds mean you'll be lucky to get a good view of the race. This raucous bareback horsrerace, featured in the film as a colourful background, is held on July 2 and August 16. The centre of this beautiful Medieval hilltown town is a World Heritage Site, where the 13th century Piazza del Campo – the main square – hosts the traditional Palio di Siena twice a year. The entrance is Piazzetta della Paglietta, on the Via di Salicotto, just southeast from the Piazza del Campo. Having seen off his pursuers, Bond drives into Siena, a further 80 miles or so to the southeast, where there’s a sudden – and unexpected – attempt on the life of M ( Judi Dench) at the MI6 field HQ. Quantum Of Solace location: the safe house: Piazzetta Della Paglietta, Siena, Italy | Photograph: Raymond Kromhout You can take a trip up to see the quarries – the ones seen in the film are Canalgrande and Fantiscritti. Hardly surprising, then, that they feature again in historical biopic The Agony and the Ecstasy, with Charlton Heston as the tortured artist. Since Roman times, they have supplied the best quality marble to Italy’s most famous sculptors – including Michelangelo. The chase roars south along the western shore toward Salò (yes, that’s the same town which Pier Paolo Pasolini chose as the setting for Salò, his transposition of the Marquis de Sade’s notorious 120 Days of Sodom).īond mysteriously arrives about 100 miles to the south, at the quarries of Carrara, southeast of La Spezia in the Apuan Alps of Tuscany. It begins toward the north of the lake, on its eastern shore at the village of Malcesine, heading north on the lakeside road SS249, Via Gardesana Centro, through and Navene and Tempesta, before heading west around the north of the lake at Riva del Garda. The frantic road chase, as Bond ( Daniel Craig) delivers the hapless Mr White to the secret MI6 lair, is alongside Lake Garda in northern Italy. Given an inexplicably cool reception by the critics, the sequel to Casino Royale belts along at a cracking pace, clocking in as the shortest of the Bonds, and continues the unfinished business of Casino Royale.
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