# James Bond tourism

James Bond, also known as Agent 007, is one of the world's most successful literary and motion picture franchises, and has codified the spy fiction genre. The novels and films have been set at locations around the world, most of them available to visit.
Spoiler alert! This article reveals plot details.

## Understand

James Bond's original author Ian Fleming wanted to write the "spy story to end all spy stories", and produced twelve books from 1953 to 1966. Bond is mainly a product of Cold War Europe, in which the Soviet Union was the main antagonist. As of the 2010s, Bond has been the main character of 26 feature films, portrayed by seven different actors. The franchise has also expanded to other media, such as video games and animated series.
While interior scenes of the films have usually been recorded in Pinewood Studios in Buckinghamshire, most exterior scenes have been shot at the actual locations. Most exceptions have been scenes in the Eastern Bloc during the Cold War, which were recorded elsewhere.

## Destinations

The complete list of James Bond film locations is very long (see Wikipedia). The list below contains real-life locations accessible to tourists, which have been prominently featured in at least one film, as well as studios, hospitality venues and other locations connected to the franchise.
Due to tradition, the sets have been concentrated to European cities, as well as the Caribbean.

### Europe

* 51.487267-0.1244031 SIS building, London (United Kingdom). London contains the SIS building, which opened in 1994, and has been visible in most films of the Brosnan and Craig periods.
* Montenegro, which was still considered Yugoslavia (also known as Serbia and Montenegro) while filming Casino Royale. While the original novel placed the casino in a fictional town in northern France, the casino seems to be inspired by Monaco, and the casino exterior is that of the Grandhotel Pupp in Karlovy Vary, Czech Republic.
* 45.43861112.32662 Venice (Italy). Three Bond films have been set and recorded here: From Russia With Love (1963), Moonraker (1979), and Casino Royale (2006).
* 41.01361128.9553 Istanbul (Turkey). Like Venice, three films were set and recorded here: From Russia With Love, The World Is Not Enough and Skyfall. The latter also features the 37.243334.97674 Varda Viaduct, a 1912-built railway viaduct over a deep ravine in the Taurus Mountains in the south of the country.
* 48.8562.3515 Paris (France). Featured in Thunderball and A View to a Kill.
* 48.20816.3736 Vienna (Austria). Setting for The Living Daylights, Timothy Dalton's first film.
* 56.66745-5.022137 Glencoe (Scotland). In Skyfall, the namesake manor is located here.
* 51.548611-0.5358 Pinewood Studios (Buckinghamshire, United Kingdom). Most interiors of the films have been shot here, such as M's office and 007 Stage (The Spy Who Loved Me, Moonraker, For Your Eyes Only, Octopussy, A View to a Kill, The World Is Not Enough, Die Another Day, all of Daniel Craig's Bond movies and many other non-Bond movies).
* 51.693333-0.4197229 Leavesden Studios (Leavesden, Hertfordshire). Some scenes of GoldenEye (1995) were shot here.
* 56.74003115.89198610 James Bond Museum (Nybro, Sweden). Though no James Bond film has been set or filmed in Sweden, the small town of Nybro has the world's only known James Bond museum.
* 45.4803489.15951611 Admiral Hotel, Via Domodossola, 16, 20145 (Milan, Italy). Hotel (****)/museum based on James Bond merchandise and set objects.
* 41.9028212.4665212 Rome. Part of Spectre (2015) locations.
* 53.551089.9936813 Hamburg (Germany). Featured in Tomorrow Never Dies (1997).
* 52.379184.8994314 Amsterdam (Netherlands). Featured in Diamonds Are Forever (1971).
* 50.0595814.3255415 Prague (Czech Republic). Featured in Casino Royale (2006).
* 43.263312.9685116 Bilbao (Spain). Featured in The World Is Not Enough (1999).
* 52.5213.4049517 Berlin (Germany). Featured in Octopussy (1983).
* 43.31611.2926218 Siena (Italy). Featured in Quantum of Solace (2008).
* 36.5333-6.28333319 Cádiz (Spain). Featured in Die Another Day as a stand-in filming location for Havana, Cuba.
* 43.7333347.41666720 Monte Carlo (Monaco). Featured in GoldenEye (1995).
* 46.0169.257221 Lake Como (Italy). Featured in Casino Royale (2006).
* 40.66666716.622 Matera (Italy). Featured in No Time to Die (2021).
* 62.283333-6.73333323 Kalsoy (Faroe Islands). Used for the villain's base in No Time to Die (2021). Shortly after the film's release, the locals erected a tombstone to Bond at the spot where the character died.
* 59.9171430.0448824 St. Petersburg (Russia). Featured in GoldenEye (1995).
* 47.507079.7169725 Bregenz (Austria). Featured in Quantum of Solace (2008).
* 46.5573537.8352326 Mürren (Switzerland). Piz Gloria revolving restaurant on top of Schilthorn. Featured in On Her Majesty's Secret Service (1969).
* 46.54047112.13565227 Cortina d'Ampezzo (Italy). Featured in For Your Eyes Only (1981).
* 39.616719.916728 Corfu Town (Greece). Featured in For Your Eyes Only (1981).
* 39.713221.635829 Meteora (Greece). The Monastery of the Holy Trinity, an active Eastern Orthodox monastery perched atop a rocky precipice over 400 m (1,300 ft) high, is featured in For Your Eyes Only (1981).

### Asia

* 22.27114.1730 Hong Kong. As a British colony, Hong Kong featured in You Only Live Twice and The Man with the Golden Gun. Following the handover back to China, a short sequence of Die Another Day was set here.
* 22.2113.5531 Macau. During Macau's Portuguese colonial era, a short sequence in The Man With the Golden Gun (1974) was set in the Macau Peninsula. Also appears in Skyfall (2012) after being handed back to China.
* 37.956125126.67059732 North Korea and the Bridge of No Return. The "Bridge of No Return" crossed the Military Demarcation Line (MDL) between North and South Korea. Host to various Cold War prisoner swaps from 1953 to 1968, the opening sequence of Die Another Day was set here.
* 35.689506139.691733 Tokyo and Himeji Castle (Japan). You Only Live Twice (1967) features Japan almost exclusively. Japan was featured again in Diamonds Are Forever (1971).
* 13.75100.4934 Bangkok (Thailand). Featured in The Man with the Golden Gun (1974).
* 8.27537898.50056135 Ko Tapu (Thailand). Featured in The Man with the Golden Gun (1974) and Tomorrow Never Dies (1997), and since then known as "James Bond Island".
* 40.40926449.86709236 Baku (Azerbaijan). Featured in The World Is Not Enough (1999).
* 31.136121.27599937 Shanghai (China). Featured in Skyfall (2012).
* 24.57127973.69154438 Udaipur (India). Featured in Octopussy (1984).

### North America

* 25.72909-80.2374439 Miami (United States). Featured in Goldfinger (1964), at a glance in Thunderball (1965), and in Casino Royale (2006).
* 18.416667-77.11666740 Ocho Rios with Dunn's River Falls (Jamaica). Featured in Dr. No (1962).
* 25.078199-77.34384941 Nassau (Bahamas). Featured in Thunderball (1965), its unofficial remake Never Say Never Again (1983) and Casino Royale (2006).
* 18.4104-76.9436542 Goldeneye Hotel and Resort (Oracabessa, Jamaica), ☏ +1 876-6229-007. Built on Ian Fleming's estate in Jamaica, "house" of his novels. Featured in No Time to Die (2021).
* 37.75769-122.4726143 San Francisco (United States). Featured in A View to a Kill (1985).
* 29.9511-90.071544 New Orleans (United States). Featured in Live and Let Die (1973).
* 36.12467-115.4551845 Las Vegas (United States). Featured in Diamonds Are Forever (1971).
* 19.43267-99.1331746 Mexico City (Mexico). Featured in Spectre (2015).
* 40.7128-74.005947 New York City (United States). Featured in Live and Let Die (1973).
* 37.9161-85.956248 Fort Knox (United States). Featured in Goldfinger (1964).
* Some scenes in Die Another Day (2002) were set in Cuba, though they were not actually filmed in Cuba but were instead filmed in La Caleta, Spain.

### South America

* -22.908333-43.19638949 Rio de Janeiro (Brazil). Featured in Moonraker (1979). (updated Dec 2015)
* -16.48997-68.11542350 La Paz (Bolivia). Featured in Quantum of Solace (2008). (updated Oct 2022)

### Africa

* 30.0531.233351 Cairo (Egypt). Featured in Diamonds Are Forever (1971) and The Spy Who Loved Me (1977).
* 35.7595-5.83452 Tangier (Morocco). Featured in The Living Daylights (1987) and Spectre (2015).

## See also

* Orient Express, a historic sleeper train which once ran between Paris and Istanbul, occupies a central role in From Russia with Love (1963).
* Spies and secrets
* Mission: Impossible tourism, another spy film series that spans the globe