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Film Sets

Film set “Poems of Asolo” in Venice

Venice is a natural film set. How many films have been shot there? More than tongue can tell!

Classics include Summertime with Katherine Hepburn (1955); Luchino Visconti’s Death in Venice (1971); Nicolas Roeg’s Don’t Look Now with Donald Sutherland and Julie Christie (1973); two James Bond vehicles, Moonraker (1979) with Roger Moore and Casino Royale (2006) with Daniel Craig; The Comfort of Strangers (1990) with Christopher Walken, Natasha Richardson, Rupert Everett and Helen Mirren; and Woody Allen’s Everyone Says I Love You (1996) with Goldie Hawn and Julia Roberts.

But not Fellini’s Casanova with Donald Sutherland in the lead role (1976)...which was entirely shot in Rome’s Cinecittà.

Lido

Piazza San Marco

Arsenale

The Heart of the Venetian State

Bridge of Sighs

Ponte dei Sospiri

Ca' da Mosto

Home of the discoverer of the Cape Verde islands

Ca' Sagredo

Hotel of pastel giants

Caffé Florian

Venetian coffee culture

Ghetto

Still a community centre

Grand Canal

Lazzaretto Vecchio

The world's first quarantine island

Misericordia church and its Scuole

Also known as Santa Maria di Valverde

Palazzi Barbaro

Henry James's favourite

Museo di Palazzo Grimani

A little bit of Renaissance Rome in Venice

Palazzo Pisani

Now the Conservatory of Music

Palazzo Zenobio degli Armeni

With a famous hall of mirrors

Ponte dell' Accademia

The big wooden bridge to the Accademia

Rialto and its Markets

The ancient heart of Venice

San Barnaba and its Campo

Once the vortex of ruined nobles

San Michele in Isola

The island of the dead

San Nicolo dei Mendicoli

The 'Don't Look Now' church

San Nicolò al Lido

The bones of Santa Claus

San Stae

Or Sant' Eustachio

Santa Maria dei Miracoli

Renaissance jewel

Teatro La Fenice

The Phoenix of Operas

Venice Film Festival

The mother of all Film Festivals

Text © Dana Facaros & Michael Pauls

Image by Boscoli85