Venice Film Tour: Explore Iconic Movie Locations

Highlights

• Licensed Tour Guide
• Cinematic Locations

What's included

Itinerary

1. 1

   Stazione di Venezia Santa Lucia

   Pass by

   This railway station is the obvious starting point of several movies, from the dramatic "The Anonymous Venetian" (1970) to the romantic-adventurous "The Tourist (2010)", but particularly unforgettable as the place where the most bizzarre gondolier in the movie history (the italian actor Alberto Sordi) "hooks" foreign tourists in "Venice, the moon and you" (1958).

2. 2

   Stop 2

   15min

   In this large "campo" in the Jewish Ghetto Luchino Visconti sets the beginning of the passion between the countess Livia Serpieri (Alida Valli) and the Austrian lieutenant Franz Mahler (Farley Granger) in "Senso" ( 1954).

3. 3

   Chiesa di San Stae (Eustachio)

   10min

   The funeral boats in the final scenes of "Don't look back now" (1973) moored in front of this church, overlooking the Grand Canal with its imposing Baroque facade.

4. 4

   Stop 4

   15min

   In 1896 Alexandre Promio boarded a gondola and made the first rundown in the history of cinema, filming boats and men at work. Since then, the Grand Canal and its over 170 buildings have appeared in dozens of films: from "the talented Mr. Ripley (1999), in which Ripley's Venetian apartment is actually the fusion of two buildings overlooking the canal, to "the merchant of Venice" (2004) starring Al Pacino.

5. 5

   Mercati di Rialto

   15min

   The scene of "The Tourist" (2010) in which Johnny Depp launches himself from a terrace onto a stall was shot at the Rialto fish market. On the other side of the canal you will find the location of the palace collapsing in another James Bond movie, "Casino royale" (2006), which of course was just a movie fiction.

6. 6

   Chiesa di Santa Maria dei Miracoli

   15min

   This small and beautiful chuch is adorned with polychrome marble and it was chosen by Orson Welles for the wedding of Otello and Desdemona in "Othello" (1952). The flower shop (we will not see it, it was fictional!) where Licia Maglietta works in "Bread and Tulips" (1999) is located in the "campo" just few steps behind the church.

7. 7

   Scuola Grande di San Marco

   15min

   This one of the location of the series "the new Pope" (2019), directed by Paolo Sorrentino, starring Jude Law.

8. 8

   Ca' Rezzonico

   15min

   This palace, currently a civic museum is the fictional Drax's office in James Bond movie "Moonraker" (1979).

Before you go

Location

Fondamenta Santa Lucia, 30121, Italy