Venice Film Tour: Explore Iconic Movie Locations

Explore Iconic Movie Locations. This is a private tour and fully customizable: the final itinerary will be tailored to your cinematic preferences and walking pace. 

Canal Grande. In 1896, Alexandre Promio boarded a gondola and filmed one of the very first tracking shots in cinema history. Since then, the Grand Canal has starred in dozens of films — from The Talented Mr. Ripley (1999) to The Merchant of Venice (2004) with Al Pacino.

San Stae church. The haunting final funeral scenes of Don’t Look Now (1973) unfold in front of this Baroque church on the Grand Canal.

Rialto fish market. Johnny Depp jumps from a terrace onto a market stall in The Tourist (2010), filmed right here. Across the canal, a fictional palace collapses in Casino Royale (2006), another James Bond adventure.Pacino.

Santa Maria dei Miracoli church. This Renaissance jewel appears in The Tourist (2010) during an intimate scene between the main characters. Its striking architecture offers a moment of quiet beauty.

La Fenice theatre. The dramatic opening scene of Senso (1954) takes place during a performance of Il Trovatore at La Fenice. The film immortalized the original theatre before its destruction by fire in 1996 and inspired its faithful reconstruction.

Scala Contarini del Bovolo. According to a legend, this is the house of Desdemona. In "Othello" (1952), Orson Welles chooses the palace as the home of Brabanzio (not in Venice, but in Cyprus) and gives it a renewed (and deserved) popularity.

Campo Santa Maria Formosa. This "campo" has been "destroyed" during the shooting of "Spiderman: far from home" (2019), starring Tom Holland. Do not worry, the devastation was just fictional and we will admire this beatiful corner of Venice in all its original beauty.

Campo San Barnaba. In the basements of the San Barnaba church, Indiana Jones finds the "X that (never) indicates the place to dig" in "Indiana Jones and the last crusade" (1989). In "Summer Time" (1955), Jane Hudson (Katharine Hepburn) is an American tourist on vacation in Venice and wanders around the city with her camera, accidentally falling into the San Barnaba canal. This location was also chosen for the remake of "The Italian Job" (2003).

Palazzo Gritti. After being the Doge Gritti's family palace and the residence of the Vatican ambassadors, this building was transformed into a luxury hotel: among its most famous guests John Ruskin, Ernest Hemingway and Somerset Maugham. More recently Woody Allen chose this hotel for several scenes in "Everyone says I Love You" (1996), starring Julia Roberts.

La Salute church. In this church the "Illuminati" sect gather in "Lara Croft: Tomb Raider" (2001), although the room that appears is the Painted Hall of the Old Royal Naval College, in London. It is also the church that can be seen behind Ripley in his dialogue with Dickie's father in "the Talented Mr. Ripley" (1999), a conversation that takes place on the terrace of the Hotel Westin Europa & Regina on the other side of the canal.

Piscina Sant'Agnese.  This is the location where Julia Roberts used to jog in Woody Allen's "Everyone says I love you" (1996) and where Katherine Hepburn freshens up during her torrid venetian "Summer Time" (1955).

Hotel Danieli. This very luxurious hotel, in addition to hosting Wolfgang Goethe, Richard Wagner and Honoré de Balzac and being the stage of the tumultuous relationship between George Sand and Alfred de Musset, was used by Vittorio de Sica in his last movie, "The Journey (1974), starring Sophia Loren and Richard Burton; it also appears in "Moonraker" (1979) as it was the hotel of Holly Goodhead). It is also the hotel where Raniero Cotti Borroni (Carlo Verdone) and Fosca (Veronica Pivetti) spend theirfirst tragicomic wedding night in "Viaggi di Nozze" (1995).

Doge's Palace. James Bond's gondola-hovercraft in "Moonraker" (1979) is certainly the most unique form of transport that has ever crossed San Marco square. And it is not the only time that James Bond wanders around here. Iin Casino Royale (2006), Bond's hotel has an enviable view right on San Marco square. Orson Welles also chose the side facade south of the basilica for a dramatic dialogue between Brabanzio and Othello (Othello, 1952). On the the final scene of "the Talented Mr. Ripley" (1999) takes place at the tables of one of the cafès in the "Piazza". Paolo Sorrentino shot some scenes of the series "the Young Pope", with Jude Law and Diane Keaton in this square, too.