![]() ![]() After diving/driving into the water, he emerges shaken but not stirred onto the golden sands of the beautiful Romazzino Beach. The Spy Who Loved Me: Romazzino Beach, Sardiniaĭuring The Spy Who Loved Me, Bond gets chased along the coast of Sardinia by a helicopter. The beautiful waterways and architecture of Venice offered the perfect backdrop for a romantic interlude in Daniel Craig’s first Bond adventure. One of Britain’s oldest manor houses, Stonor House has remained in the same family’s possession for over 850 years! Casino Royale: Canale Grande, Venice Stonor House and Gardens in Oxfordshire acted as another of MI6’s safe-houses. Licence to Kill: Stonor House, Oxfordshire So Skyfall, the 50th-anniversary film, saw Bond head to his familial home in the Highlands. Skyfall: Glencoe, ScotlandĪpparently, Ian Fleming was so impressed with Sean Connery’s portrayal of 007 that he added Scottish ancestry to James Bond. Scenes of Bond recuperating were filmed in the gardens of the Villa del Balbianello on the western shore of the southwest part of Como. As luck would have it, the world’s most secret spy agency had a standby office in one of Scotland’s most beautiful locations. The villains destroyed MI6 headquarters on the South Bank of the Thames in this Pierce Brosnan adventure. The World is Not Enough: Eilean Donan Castle, Scotland Spectre: Vatican City, RomeĠ07 gets behind the wheel of his DB10 to drive typically fast through Rome’s St Peter’s Square and down the scenic narrow streets to the Scalo De Pinedo alongside the Tiber. Still privately owned, visitors can visit The Palace, Formal Gardens and Park throughout the year. The nefarious Spectre organisation’s headquarters in Rome were actually filmed at the birthplace and ancestral home of Sir Winston Churchill. ![]() Roger Moore’s 007 swansong may have been one of the lesser Bond films, but the stunt with Bond chasing a parachuting Grace Jones from the top of the Tower was incredible. The bi-annual Palio horse race will be familiar to viewers of Quantum of Solace it was during this event that Bond took part in a foot chase over the slate roofs of the town and through the Piazza del Campo. Both films featured the UK’s capital as a very prominent supporting character with Westminster Bridge, the Thames, Trafalgar Square, M’s house in Knightsbridge, Bond’s pad in Notting Hill and most of Skyfall’s Shanghai sequences taking place in London. ![]()
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