James Bond film locations | James Bond Wiki | Fandom powered by Wikia James Bond film locations Share James Bond film locations refers to the many locations in which the James Bond series of films were set (which does not always correspond to the shooting locations ). Most often, James Bond visits countries in Western Europe and parts of the United States , but occasionally goes to other countries such as Japan or India. Some fictional countries, unnamed countries, or locations in unspecified areas are shown in the films. Contents [ show ] Places James Bond visits in the films Countries James Bond visited in the films (top) compared with countries the Bond films were shot in (bottom) Most of the countries James Bond is shown to going to in the films, the films were actually shot in. The only ones that were shown as places that he went to but where the films were not shot in were Cuba, Czechoslovakia , Yugoslavia , Albania , Afghanistan , Lebanon and Macau . Europe In almost all Bond films, Bond is shown in England , usually in London . However in You Only Live Twice he is only in the Far East . He also goes to other areas outside London, such as areas in the country such as a retreat in Thunderball .

Bond goes to Paris in A View to a Kill , climbing the Eiffel Tower . The start of Thunderball is set in France, where James Bond uses his jetpack. He is at a French port in GoldenEye , where a Tiger helicopter is stolen. In Dr. No Bond is at a casino in Monte Carlo in Monaco where he first uses the phrase "Bond, James Bond". He ends up in a fight in an elevator in The Netherlands in Diamonds Are Forever . In Moonraker Bond is in Venice in Italy with a gondola which drives on land, he appears in Venice briefly at the end of From Russia with Love; he is also in Italy in For Your Eyes Only when he is being chased by an East German olympic skier. The climactic scenes of Casino Royale also take place in Venice. He visits the Italian island of Sardinia in The Spy Who Loved Me (after the KGB agent XXX directed them their, Bond had originally thought of going to the French island of Corsica ) Bond goes to a villa in Spain in For Your Eyes Only . He also meets a contact in Spain in On Her Majesty's Secret Service . The start of The World Is Not Enough is set in Bilbao in Spain.

The start of The Living Daylights Bond is involved in an operation to test the defences of Gibraltar . Much of On Her Majesty's Secret Service is set in Switzerland . He also follows Goldfinger into Geneva and to his secret facility in Switzerland. Bond is suppose to in Bratislava in what was then Czechoslovakia (now Slovakia ) in The Living Daylights, where he helps a Soviet general to defect. however there are no elevated train in Bratislava. The train appear to be metro in Vienna. He goes to other parts of Czechoslovakia and escapes into Austria , where he visits Vienna . The start of The Spy Who Loved Me is set in Austria also. Bond also attends an Opera in Vienna in Quantum of Solace. Bond is in Hamburg in Germany in Tomorrow Never Dies chasing media mogul Elliot Carver . In Octopussy Bond is shown in West Berlin heading into East Berlin , and also at Karl-marx-stadt (now Chemnitz ) in East Germany, before going on a train into West Germany to an American Air Force base at the fictional location of Feldstadt. Bond goes to Greece in For Your Eyes Only, including the Meteora monasteries.

Bond is in Istanbul in Turkey at the Hagia Sofia in From Russia with Love. He is also in Istanbul in The World is not enough. In From Russia with Love , Bond travels through Eastern Europe from Istanbul on the Orient Express . Zagreb in Yugoslavia features prominently. He heads from the train, over land and by boat into the Adriatic Sea . He also is part of a raid into Albania in For Your Eyes Only. Bond demolishes parts of St. Petersburg in GoldenEye. This is the first time he is shown in a Russian city. He appears in a Soviet dam in a flashback in GoldenEye, and is also shown in Siberia at the start of A View To A Kill. Bond travels to Kazan , Russia in Quantum of Solace. Casino Royale begins with Bond in Prague , before he achieves Double-0 status. The majority of the scenes take place in Montenegro , before moving to Lake Como and Venice, Italy. Quantum of Solace begins with Bond driving to Siena, Italy .

Americas Several times, James Bond has been to the United States ; the places he has been to include Fort Knox , Kentucky in Goldfinger , New Orleans , Louisiana in Live and Let Die ; Las Vegas , Nevada in Diamonds Are Forever ; San Fransisco , California in A View To A Kill where the Golden Gate Bridge features prominently; Drax's French villa which he has transported to California; Miami , Florida at the start of Goldfinger, Licence to Kill and Casino Royale. At the end of Live and Let die he takes the train from New Orleans to Washington which is presumably the Southern Crescent . In GoldenEye and Die Another Day he visits Cuba . In Dr. No he visits Jamaica including Kingston and the fictional island of Crab Key ; Thunderball is set largely in the Bahamas . Bond visits the Bahamas again in Casino Royale, and the unofficial Bond film Never say never again is also set in the Bahamas. In Licence to Kill Bond goes to the fictional city of Isthmus City, which is based on Panama City . In Live and Let die he goes to the fictional Caribbean island of San Monique .

Bond travels to Haiti in Quantum of Solace Bond first goes to South America in Moonraker when he visits Rio de Janiero , and up the Amazon River in a speedboat, to Drax 's secret facility in the Amazon jungle. Bond returns to South America in Quantum of Solace when he travels to La Paz, Bolivia . Asia Most of You only Live Twice is set in Japan . He also appears there briefly at the start of Diamonds are forever. Bond is "killed" in Hong Kong at the start of You only live twice, and he is also there in The man with the golden gun where he goes to a secret base inside a wrecked ship in the harbour. He also appears in Hong Kong in Die Another Day. He drives through Saigon in Vietnam on a motorbike in Tomorrow Never Dies. He is captured in North Korea in Die Another Day, and is later released across the border into South Korea . While several films involve China , Bond does not actually travel to the mainland. He is onboard a stealth ship off the coast of China in Tomorrow Never Dies, and also in that film is parachute dropped into ocean which is believed to be Chinese, but which ends up being Vietnamese.

He appears at a US airforce base in the South China Sea in that film also. Bond goes to Thailand in The man with the Golden Gun. Much of Octopussy is set in India where Bond visit's Octopussy's and Kamal's palaces. The finale of The Living Daylights is set in Afghanistan where Bond escapes from a Soviet air force base, joins the mujahadeen , takes control of a Soviet aircraft and crashes it in Pakistan , where he heads off for Karachi , where he "knows a great restaurant". The start of Tomorrow Never Dies involves an arms bazaar "on the Russian border". It is close to the Black Sea where a British ship fires a missile on it, so it could be presumed to be Azerbaijan or Georgia but it is not actually identified. Bond goes to Baku in Azerbaijan in The World is not enough. In The Man With the Golden Gun he goes to Beirut in Lebanon Africa Bond goes to Egypt near the Great Pyramids in The Spy who loved me; he also briefly is shown punching a man in the face in Cairo at a Blackjack table while looking for Blofeld at the start of Diamonds Are Forever. In The Living Daylights Bond pursues Soviet general Pushkin to Tangier in Morocco .

Bond rescues his girl in Never Say Never Again from an unnamed North African country. The start of Moonraker shows Bond returning from "Africa" where he and Jaws fight on their way out of a plane. Bond thinks he will be sent to South Africa in Diamonds are Forever, saying "I've always wanted to go to South Africa" but he is in fact sent to the Netherlands. Bond chases a suspect through the streets of Madagascar in an early sequence of Casino Royale. Places James Bond visits in the films Countries James Bond has visited in the films Most of the countries James Bond is shown to going to in the films, the films were actually shot in. The only ones that were shown as places that he went to but where the films were not shot in were Cuba, Czechoslovakia, Yugoslavia, Albania, Afghanistan, Lebanon and Macau, as well as the USSR (Although Bond films were later filmed in Russia and Azerbaijan). Europe England - In almost all Bond films, Bond is shown in England , usually in London . However in You Only Live Twice he is only in the Far East . He also goes to other areas outside London, such as areas in the country such as a retreat in Thunderball .

France - Bond goes to Paris in A View to a Kill , climbing the Eiffel Tower . The start of Thunderball is set in France, where James Bond uses his jetpack. Monaco - In Dr. No Bond is at a casino in Monte Carlo in Monaco where he first uses the phrase "Bond, James Bond". He is at Monaco in Goldeneye , where a Tiger helicopter is stolen. The Netherlands - He ends up in a fight in an elevator in Amsterdam in Diamonds Are Forever. Italy - In Moonraker Bond is in Venice in Italy with a gondola which drives on land, he appears in Venice briefly at the end of From Russia with Love; he is also in Italy in For Your Eyes Only when he is being chased by an East German Olympic skier. He visits the Italian island of Sardinia in The Spy Who Loved Me (after the KGB agent XXX directed them there, Bond had originally thought of going to the French island of Corsica ). Scotland - Bond travels to Scotland in Skyfall with M, to his ancestral home. Bond, M, Q and others also spend time in Scotland in The World is Not Enough, where Eilean Donan Castle acts as MI6 headquarters.

Spain - Bond goes to a villa in Spain in For Your Eyes Only. He also meets a contact in Spain in On Her Majesty's Secret Service in Madrid . The start of The World Is Not Enough is set in Bilbao in Spain. At the start of The Living Daylights Bond is involved in an operation to test the defences of Gibraltar . Switzerland - Much of On Her Majesty's Secret Service is set in Switzerland . He also follows Goldfinger into Geneva and to his secret facility in Switzerland in Goldfinger. Czechoslovakia and Austria - Bond is in Bratislava in what was then Czechoslovakia (now Slovakia ) in The Living Daylights, where he helps a Soviet general to defect. He goes to other parts of Czechoslovakia and escapes into Austria , where he visits Vienna . The start of The Spy Who Loved Me has a skiing chase sequence set in Austria also. Germany - Bond is in Hamburg in Germany in Tomorrow Never Dies chasing media mogul Elliot Carver . In Octopussy Bond is shown in West Berlin heading into East Berlin , and also at Karl-Marx-Stadt (now Chemnitz ) in East Germany, before going on a train into West Germany to an U.S.

Air Force base at the fictional location of Feldstadt. Iceland - Part of Die Another Day is set in Iceland. Greece - Bond goes to Greece in For Your Eyes Only, including the Meteora monasteries. Turkey - Bond is in Istanbul in Turkey at the Hagia Sofia in From Russia with Love. He is also in Istanbul in The World Is Not Enough. Eastern Europe - In From Russia with Love, Bond travels through Eastern Europe from Istanbul on the Orient Express . This train would presumably have travelled through Bulgaria . Zagreb in Yugoslavia (now Croatia ) features prominently. He heads from the train, over land and by boat into the Adriatic Sea . He also is part of a raid into Albania in For Your Eyes Only. Russia - Bond demolishes parts of St. Petersburg in a tank in GoldenEye. This is the only time he is shown in a Russian city. He is part of a secret operation in a Soviet dam in a flashback in GoldenEye, and is also shown in Siberia at the start of A View to a Kill before he escapes on a submarine.

Americas United States - Several times James Bond has been to the United States ; the places he has been to include Fort Knox , Kentucky in Goldfinger; New York City , New York and New Orleans , Louisiana in Live and Let Die; Las Vegas , Nevada in Diamonds are Forever; San Francisco , California in A View to a kill where the Golden Gate Bridge features prominently; Baltimore , Maryland in Goldfinger where his plane stops on its way to Kentucky; Bond also goes to Drax's French villa which has been transported to California in Moonraker; Miami , Florida at the start of Goldfinger and for Felix Leiter's wedding at the start of Licence to Kill. At the end of Live and Let Die he takes the train from New Orleans to Washington which is presumably the Southern Crescent . While he is not shown there in the movie, at the start of A View to a Kill, Bond leaves Siberia for Alaska saying it will take him several days to get there. Canada - James Bond does not set foot in Canada in the films; however, in Goldfinger, Pussy Galore tells him that the plane they are on between Geneva and Baltimore is flying over Newfoundland . Caribbean - In GoldenEye he goes to a secret satellite facility in Cuba .

He also goes to Cuba in Die Another Day where he goes to Havana . In Dr. No he visits Jamaica including Kingston and the fictional island of Crab Key ; Thunderball is set largely in the Bahamas . The unofficial Bond film Never Say Never Again is also set in the Bahamas. In Licence to Kill Bond goes to the fictional city of Isthmus City, which is based on Panama City . In Live and Let Die he goes to the fictional Caribbean island of San Monique . South America - The only time Bond has been to South America was in Moonraker when he goes to Rio de Janeiro , and up the Amazon River in a speedboat, to Drax 's secret facility in the Amazon jungle. Asia Japan - Most of You Only Live Twice is set in Japan . He also appears there briefly at the start of Diamonds Are Forever. Hong Kong - Bond is "killed" in Hong Kong at the start of You Only Live Twice, and he is also there in The Man With the Golden Gun where he goes to a secret base inside the wrecked RMS Queen Elizabeth in the harbour. He also appears at a hotel in Hong Kong in Die Another Day. Vietnam - He drives through Saigon in Vietnam on a motorbike in Tomorrow Never Dies.

Korea - He is captured in North Korea in Die Another Day, and is later released across the border into South Korea . China - While several films involve China , Bond does not actually travel to the mainland (outside of Hong Kong). He is onboard a stealth ship off the coast of China in Tomorrow Never Dies, and also in that film is parachute dropped into ocean which is believed to be Chinese, but which ends up being Vietnamese. He also appears at a US Air Force base in the South China Sea in that film. In The Man With the Golden Gun the finale is on an island off the coast of China, where Bond and Scaramanga duel. However, Bond does go to Hong Kong in Die Another Day which was part of China when it was filmed (2002). Thailand - Bond goes to Thailand in The Man With the Golden Gun. India - Much of Octopussy is set in India where Bond visit's Octopussy's and Kamal's palaces.

Afghanistan - The finale of The Living Daylights is set in Afghanistan where Bond escapes from a Soviet air force base and joins the mujahideen Pakistan - At the end of The Living Daylights Bond crashes a Soviet aircraft in Pakistan , where he heads off for Karachi , where he "knows a great restaurant". Caucasus - The start of Tomorrow Never Dies involves an arms bazaar "on the Russian border". It is close to the Black Sea where a British ship fires a missile on it, so it could be presumed to be Azerbaijan or Georgia but it is not actually identified. Bond goes to Baku in Azerbaijan in The World Is Not Enough. Middle East - In The Man With the Golden Gun he goes to Beirut in Lebanon . Battleship Island - Bond is held captive by Raoul Silva in Skyfall. Africa Egypt - In the pre-credits sequence of Diamonds Are Forever, Bond is briefly shown punching a man in the face in Cairo at a blackjack table while looking for Blofeld . In The Spy Who Loved Me, Bond goes to Egypt near the Great Pyramids . Morocco - In The Living Daylights, Bond pursues General Pushkin , head of the KGB, to Tangier , and fakes Pushkin's assassination.

Near the end of the film, he returns to Tangier to take down the villain Brad Whitaker . Also, Bond rescues his girl in Never Say Never Again from an unnamed North African country. The start of Moonraker shows Bond returning from "Africa" where he and Jaws fight on their way out of a plane. Bond thinks he will be sent to South Africa in Diamonds are Forever, saying "I've always wanted to go to South Africa" but he is in fact sent to the Netherlands. In 2011, director Sam Mendes confirmed that he would visit South Africa in Bond 23 which is now Skyfall . However, this idea was later scrapped by the franchise. Other Outer Space - In Moonraker Bond flies one of Drax's shuttles from his launch center in the Amazon to his space station. In You Only Live Twice , Bond very nearly went into space, with him disguised as an astronaut but being stopped from boarding the SPECTRE craft at the last second by Blofeld. James Bond Locations: A View to a Kill - Paris 6 Jul 2014 A View to a Kill - Paris The most obvious Bond location in the world is probably the Eiffel Tower in Paris.

Despite the fact that it is the most popular tourist attraction in the world, it took Bond until A View to a Kill (14 films and 23 years) to visit Paris. Even though Moonraker was largely shot in studios in France and one scene, from the Moonraker factory, was filmed inside the Centre Pompidou (doubling for California), Bond himself had never actually visited Paris before A View to a Kill. For the establishing shot over the Eiffel Tower, the camera was placed at Avenue Gustave V de Suède, just below the famous view point at Place du Trocadéro. Mi6 is investigating Max Zorin's Anglo-French combine, and Bond goes to Paris in order to meet with the French detective, Achille Aubergine who is hired by the French jockey club to investigate Zorin's winning streak in horse racing. Bond is having dinner with Achille Aubergine at the Eiffel Tower. Evidently, Zorin does not care for Monsieur Aubergine's investigation since he sends May Day to Kill Aubergine at the restaurant. This scene was shot in studio, on a set constructed by the brilliant production designer Peter Lamont.

The restaurant however, is based on Alain Ducasse's restaurant 'Le Jules Verne' that is located on the 2nd floor at the Eiffel Tower, the same floor as Bond's restaurant in the film. Bollinger, seventy-five. A bottle of Perrier is also visible on the table. "-Qu'est-ce qu'il y à Monsieur?! -There's a fly in his soup!" Needless to say, the Eiffel Tower is a spectacular landmark as well as a beautiful building, and a must see when in Paris. More accurately, it is impossible to miss during a visit in Paris, since it is visible from almost everywhere. You have the classic view from Place du Trocadéro, but a good way to enjoy the Eiffel Tower is to have a pic-nic on the big field Champ de Mars, on the other side of the tower. A field that used to be the training ground for the French army. From here you have an undisturbed view and less tourists. Bond's visit to Paris in the film is a nod to the original Ian Fleming short story From a View to a Kill.

In the beginning of the story, Bond is spending an afternoon in Paris, debating with himself about where to go and what to drink before dinner. Bond ultimately ends up at Fouquet's at Champs-Elysée, drinking Americano. Bond stipulates that he wants his Americano made with Perrier because "a good mineral water is the best way to improve a poor drink". A reference to this is probably the bottles of Perrier that can be seen on all the tables in the restaurant. Upplagd av Eiffel Tower facts: when was it built, how tall is it? - Telegraph Follow The Eiffel Tower, one of Paris's most visited attractions, welcoming almost seven million visitors per year, was completed 126 years ago today - and there's a Google Doodle to mark the anniversary. Read on for fascinating facts, or plan your trip with our all-you-need-to-know essential guide to tickets and queuing . 1. Completed on March 31, 1889, the tower was the world’s tallest man-made structure for 41 years until the completion of the Chrysler Building in New York in 1930. 2.

It is 324 metres tall (including antennas) and weighs 10,100 tonnes. The Eiffel Tower under construction 3. It was the tallest structure in France until the construction of a military transmitter in the town of Saissac in 1973. The Millau Viaduct, completed in 2004, is also taller, at 343 metres. 4. It is possible to climb to the top, but there are 1,665 steps. Most people take the lift. 5. The lifts travel a combined distance of 103,000 km a year – two and a half times the circumference of the Earth. 6. Victor Lustig, a con artist, "sold" the tower for scrap metal on two separate occasions. 7. During cold weather the tower shrinks by about six inches. 8. Gustave Eiffel, the engineer and architect behind the tower, was also involved in a disastrous attempt by the French to build a canal in Panama, and his reputation was badly damaged by the failure of the venture. Gustave Eiffel 9. Eiffel also designed interior elements of the Statue of Liberty.

10. He died while listening to Beethoven's 5th symphony. 11. Since its opening almost 250 million people have visited the tower. 12. Today the tower welcomes almost 7 million people a year, making it the most visited paid-for monument in the world. 13. Its construction took two years, two months and five days - 180 years fewer than Paris's other great attraction, Notre Dame. 14. During the German occupation, the tower's lift cables were cut, and the tower closed to the public. Nazi soldiers then attempted to attach a swastika to the top, but it was so large it blew away and had to be replaced with a smaller one. 15. In 1944, as the Allies approached Paris, Hitler ordered Dietrich von Choltitz, the military governor of Paris, to demolish the tower, along with other parts of the city. The general refused. Adolf Hitler and his entourage tour Paris in 1940 16. Repainting the tower, which happens every seven years, requires 60 tonnes of paint. 17.

The tower was the main exhibit at the 1889 Exposition Universelle (World’s Fair), held to commemorate the centennial of the French Revolution. 18. One attendee at the 1889 World's Fair was Sir John Bickerstaffe, Mayor of Blackpool. So impressed was he at the new attraction, he has a similar tower built on the English seafront.19. The tower appears in the 1985 Bond film A View to a Kill. There is a scene in the Jules Verne restaurant, and a fight in the stairway. 20. Semolina Pilchard climbs the Eiffel Tower in the Beatles song I Am the Walrus. 21. There are a number of other replicas around the world, including one in Las Vegas and one at the Window of the World theme park in Shenzhen, China. 22. The tower played a part in the Allied victory at the First Battle of the Marne, in 1914. One of its transmitters jammed German radio communications, hindering their advance. 23.

It was originally intended to stand for 20 years before being dismantled, but its use as a wireless telegraph transmitter (in cases such as the one above) meant it was allowed to stay. Paris street performers Jean Louis Bert and Grethe Bulow playing leap-frog in front of the Eiffel Tower. © Jean Berton 24. French car manufacturer Citroen used the tower as a giant billboard between 1925 and 1934 – the company name was emblazoned on the tower using a quarter of a million light bulbs – and was recorded as the world’s biggest advertisement by the Guinness Book of Records. 25. In 2008 a woman with an objects fetish married the Eiffel Tower, changing her name to Erika La Tour Eiffel in honour of her ‘partner’. 26. The tower comprises 18,000 metallic parts, joined together by 2.5 million rivets. 27. To mark the 125th anniversary of the Eiffel Tower’s completion last year the British Virgin Islands has launched a special tower-shaped $10 coin. 28.

A number of aviators have flown an aircraft under the arches of the tower. In 1926 Leon Collet was killed after a failed attempt. 29. The tower sways around six to seven centimetres (2-3 inches) in the wind. Soviet Cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin - the first man in outer space - visits the Eiffel Tower in September 1963 © AFP 30. Gustave Eiffel kept a small apartment of the third floor for entertaining friends. It is now open to the public. 31. The Eiffel Tower and Margaret Thatcher share the same nickname - La Dame de Fer ("The Iron Lady"). 32. In 1960 Charles de Gaulle proposed temporarily dismantling the tower and sending it to Montreal for Expo 67. The plan was rejected. 33. The names of 72 engineers, scientists and mathematicians are engraved on the side of the tower, each of whom contributed to its construction. 34. In the computer game Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3, the tower is toppled by an airstrike. 35.

There are 20,000 lightbulbs used on the Eiffel Tower to make it sparkle every night. 36. Ever wanted to build your own Eiffel Tower? There's a LEGO set for that - number 10181 (it contains 3,428 bricks). 37. It costs €15 to take the lift to the top. 38. The majoirty of visitors (10.4%) are French, following by Italy and Spain (8.1% each), USA (7.9%), Britain (7.4%), Germany (5.8%) and Brazil (5.5%). 39. In 1905 a local newspaper organised a stair climbing championship at the tower. A M.Forestier won, taking three minutes and 12 seconds to reach the second level. 40. Pierre Labric cycled down the stairs of the tower in 1923. He won a bet, but was arrested by local police. Iconic James Bond cars parade through Paris - The Local Iconic James Bond cars parade through Paris The Local Almost 20 Bond cars hit the streets of Paris on Sunday.

Photo: AFP The Local 12 October 2015 10:13 CEST+02:00 James Bond fans in Paris were treated to a rare display on Sunday when cars that featured in decades worth of Bond films paraded through the streets of the French capital. Almost 20 cars that featured in the Bond films from the last forty years were in Paris on Sunday to promote Spectre - the newest addition to the 007 franchise. Led by an Aston Marton DB10, above, the cars paraded down the Champs Elysée and past the Eiffel Tower. The event was carried out at a much slower pace than Bond fans may be used to, especially compared to a Paris car chase from 1985's A View to a Kill, which sees Roger Moore hijack a taxi at the Eiffel Tower to chase a parachuting villain above (see the chase below). The newest Bond film features France's Lea Seydoux (pictured below), the latest in a long line of French women to share the silver screen with 007, who will once again be played by Daniel Craig.

The film will be released on October 26th in the UK, November 6th in the US, and then November 11th in France. Eiffel Tower Eiffel Tower The Paris Icon There are few structures in the world as instantly recognizable as the Eiffel Tower, La Tour Eiffel. A Paris icon, the tower was begun in 1887 and finished for the opening of the Universal Exposition in 1889, the 100th anniversary of the French Revolution. The structure was the entrance arch for the Exposition. Its planning and building make for a great story in itself and its subsequent history is full of interesting tales. Although widely criticized at its inception, the Tower has come to be one of the most visited landmarks in the world. It was an engineering marvel of its day and it remains as one of the more remarkable structures ever conceived. There are many ways to reach the Tower. The approach from the Palais de Chaillot , across the Seine river, gives a magnificent view.

History of the Eiffel Tower The Tower was designed by Gustave Eiffel (1832-1923), following a competition for the project by over 700 entries. Gustave Eiffel, a French engineer and architect from Dijon, was an innovator and built many fine structures during his lifetime. The Tower is 318 meters (1043 feet) tall, weighs 7,300 tons. The total weight, with decking, elevators, railing and paint is 10,100 tons. It was the world's tallest structure for forty years. According to the official website for the tower , the summit is reached by 1,665 steps. The Eiffel Tower is constructed of 18,000 pieces of iron and held together by 2.5 million rivets. It is equipped with eight elevators. On a windy day, the Tower sways, at most, 7 centimeters. On a hot day, it can bend some 18 centimeters, an effect from the heat of the sun on the expanding metal. It takes fifty tons of paint to cover the Tower which is done every 7 years.

Every so often, the color of the paint is changed. Currently, it is painted a shade of brown. On the first floor of the Tower are interactive consoles where you can register your choice for a future color. Originally, Gustave Eiffel had a permit to leave the Tower standing for 20 years, more than recouping his expenses, but, as it proved valuable for communication purposes, it was allowed to stay beyond the end of the permit. Since the beginning of the 20th century, the Eiffel Tower has been used for transmission purposes. Until the 1950s, there was a triangular aerial, consisting of several wires, running from the top to anchor points in the Champ de Mars , the park in which the Tower stands. This aerial was fed by transmitters which were in small housings on the Champ de Mars and used for long-wave transmission. Since 1957, the Eiffel Tower has been used as transmission tower for FM and TV and, therefore, has an aerial on the top. Eiffel Tower Admission Prices and Hours The Tower is open everyday from 9:00 a.m. to midnight from the middle of June to early September.

The remainder of the year hours are 9:30am to 11:00 pm Hours are subject to change depending on the crowds of people, the weather and the event of strikes. The prices for taking the elevator for adults are: 2nd Level: 9 euros, Top Level: 15 euros For those between 12-24 years old the elevator prices are: 2nd Level: 7 euros, Top Level: 13.50 euros For those between 4-11 years old the elevator prices are 2nd Level: 4.50 euros, Top Level: 11 euros Those under 4 years of age are admitted free. The price for taking the stairs to the 2nd Level for adults is 5 euros For those between 12-24 years old, 4 euros For those between 4-11 years old, 3.50 euros The Top Level is no longer accessible by stairs.

Interesting Events in the Life of the Tower Father Theodor Wulf, in 1910, took observations of radiant energy from the top and the bottom of the Eiffel Tower and was the first to detect what are today known as cosmic rays. In 1925, a con artist Victor Lustig, "sold" the Eiffel Tower for scrap. He did this not once, but twice. In 1930, the Tower lost the title of the World's Tallest Structure. That honor then passed to the Chrysler Building in New York City. From 1925 to 1936, the Citroën automobile company installed neon signs on three of the tower's four sides, making it the tallest billboard in the world. When Adolf Hitler visited occupied Paris in 1940, the elevator cables were cut by the French so that he would have to climb the 1,665 steps to the summit. Hitler chose to stay on the ground. The parts to repair the elevators were, supposedly, impossible to obtain at that time due to war shortages. However, they were working again within hours of the Liberation of Paris.

A Frenchman scaled the Tower, during the German Occupation, to hang the French flag. On January 3, 1956, a fire damaged the top of the tower. In 1959, the present radio antenna was added to the top. In the 1980s, an old restaurant and its supporting iron scaffolding mid-way up the Tower, was dismantled. It was purchased and reconstructed in New Orleans, Louisiana, originally as the Tour Eiffel Restaurant, more recently known as the Red Room. For the celebration of the Millennium, 30,000 small lights were placed all over the Tower, set to blink on the hour for 10 minutes. Due to the popularity and beauty of the spectacle, the lights were permanently installed in 2003. However, in 2009, the duration of the light show was reduced to five minutes. The Tower received its 200,000,000th guest on November 28, 2002. At 7:20 p.m., on July 22, 2003, a fire occurred at the top of the Tower, in the broadcasting equipment room.

The Tower was evacuated. The fire was extinguished in forty minutes and there were no reports of injuries. Eiffel Tower Appearances in Film In the film "Van Helsing", the Eiffel Tower is under construction. In "Rugrats in Paris: The Movie", the babies are atop the Tower while using the giant Reptar invention. In "Team America: World Police", a rocket blows the tower up, then the Tower falls on the Arc de Triomphe. The James Bond film, "A View to a Kill", has a scene in the Eiffel Tower, including scenes in a fictional restaurant there. The Tower is shown in the 1970 animated film "The Aristocats". The Tower is destroyed in "Armageddon". The Tower flies and moves around Paris in the puppet version of "Without a Paddle". That scene starts after the movie-credits end. The Tower (and the rest of Paris) were almost blown up by a terrorist nuclear bomb and Lois Lane almost plunged to her death under its elevator in "Superman II". In "Mars Attacks!", the Eiffel Tower is destroyed by Martians. In "Godzilla: Final Wars", Kamacuras attacks the Tower.

The Eiffel Tower can be seen on TV in "Independence Day". The Tower is seen in "Eurotrip". At the end of "The War of the Worlds", the Tower is seen destroyed. Condorman attempts to fly off of the Tower in the movie by the same name. At the end of the 1965 Blake Edwards movie, "The Great Race", the Tower is blown up by a mis-fired cannon shot from Professor Fate's car. In "The Real World", a Parisian television program, shown on the US MTV network, the Tower is seen in most episodes. A View to a Kill | James Bond Games Wiki | Fandom powered by Wikia James Bond Games Wiki A View to a Kill 24pages on A View to a Kill is the name of two separate computer games based on the James Bond film A View to a Kill released in 1985. Contents Edit Domark created an action game split into three separate sections, inspired by scenes from the film. The game starts with the famous movie intro sequence of the moving gunsight and Bond shooting towards the camera. In the first section set in Paris, James Bond commandeers a taxi to follow May Day who has parachuted from the Eiffel Tower.

Roadblocks and police cars are out to stop Bond, who can shoot his pistol at them to get them out of the way. The display is in three sections - an overhead map of Paris, a small 3D view from the car's point of view, and a scanner showing May Day's height. James must arrive at the right location to catch her as she lands. In the second section, James must help Stacey Sutton escape from San Francisco City Hall, which is on fire. Each room is displayed from a side-on perspective. James must collect useful objects to get through the floors of the building, such as keys to open doors and buckets of water to stop the progress of the fire. In the third and final section, James must collect the code numbers to stop the detonation of Zorin's bomb. Bond runs around the mine, avoiding rockfalls and long drops. Among the objects he can pick up are a grapnel gun (to fire ropes upward which he can climb to safety) and a plank of wood to bridge gaps. May Day is also somewhere in the mine. A password system lets you play the second or third levels on their own without completing the first.

Question: In which film does James Bond go to Paris and climb the Eiffel Tower?
Answer: A View to a Kill