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No to Spectre , each Bond is enough to give you the serious travel bug, even if you can't afford the luxury hotels someone on a government payroll seems to be able to manage. As a Bond fan , I try to seek out sights shown in the series when I travel. And though local or international travel isn't recommended or responsible until the planet gets the pandemic under control, you can always visit virtually from home.
Here are a few incredible places I've been so far and one I have yet to see in person. Keep them in mind for when you can travel again, and hope that the businesses I mention will reopen. The ancient city at the mouth of the Bosporus is as much a character in the second Bond installment as Bond or snarling henchman Donald Grant. Sean Connery traverses many of the city's top tourist sights like the Grand Bazaar and the Hagia Sophia , where one of the film's pivotal scenes -- he gets the plans for the Soviet embassy from Tatiana Romanova -- takes place.
Completed in , the Hagia Sophia served as an Eastern Orthodox cathedral when the city was called Constantinople and was the capital of the Byzantine Empire. After the Ottoman Empire conquered Constantinople in , it became a mosque and gained minarets.
Now a museum, it has an immense scale that's as dazzling and as impressive as the Parthenon or the Colosseum. Walk in, stand under the foot dome and just take it in. Yeah, there are exhibits to read, but just gawking is fine. Your next stop is nearby at the Basilica Cistern , where Bond and MI6 station chief Kerim Bey embark on a boat to sneak under the Soviet Consulate sadly, the periscope they used to observe the consulate's secret meeting was movie fiction.
Built in the fifth century, the cistern has a massive scale -- feet long by feet high -- and can hold 2.
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The foot-high ceiling is supported by marble columns, two of which have bases with the face of Medusa. The Basilica Cistern can feel like a bit of a tourist trap, but it's still pretty cool. You only visit twice: Later Bond films to show Istanbul not Constantinople include The World is not Enough and Skyfall more on that film below , but in both cases it gets less screen time.
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I've only been to a corner of Switzerland Geneva so I have yet to do the country justice. But when I return, Schilthorn will be my first stop. The 9,foot peak in the Bernese Alps is featured in my favorite Bond movie , and it's the best villain's lair in the series -- yes, even better than the hollowed-out volcano with the monorail in You Only Live Twice.
I mean … how can you not love a place with tremendous Alpine views that's accessible only by an aerial tramway or a helicopter?
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The complex was still under construction when the film's location scouts discovered it in As it roughly matched Blofeld's Piz Gloria hideout described in the book , the producers financed its completion. Now a revolving restaurant named Piz Gloria of course , the building looks much as it did in the film for which it served as the allergy clinic where Blofeld was making a bioweapon.
You can have a meal in the restaurant and browse the museum with memorabilia from the filming. Down the mountain are the towns of Grindelwald , where Bond and his soon-to-be bride, Tracy di Vicenzo, escaped terrifying henchwoman Fraulein Bunt and Blofeld's orange-clad assassins, and Lauterbrunnen, the site of the stock car race. A view to die for inside Piz Gloria and if you count what happened in the movie, I mean that literally.
The Las Vegas scenes mostly show a city that's now long gone.
The Tropicana Hotel was the height of luxury, and empty patches of desert surrounded classic and now demolished Strip hotels like The Dunes. No, James Bond never made it to Las Vegas' more refined desert cousin. But a favorite scene was shot here when Bond fought energetic assassins Bambi and Thumper.
The fight was filmed at The Elrod House , a modernist fantasyland home with a pool that's partially indoors. Built in and designed by architect renowned John Lautner who also designed the you-might-recognize-it Chemosphere in Los Angeles , it has a living room that incorporates the hillside's boulders into the walls and that's topped by massive circular canopy. My favorite Roger Moore film spends much of its time in one of my favorite countries, Greece.
While those Aegean Sea islands are rocky and barren, Corfu is so lush it reminded me of Hawaii. This clocktower in Corfu Town is seen when Bond arrives on the island. The town looks more like Italy than stereotypical Greece. There are a ton of locations to explore, beginning with Corfu Town where Bond and Havelock go shopping after he arrives. Forget whitewashed buildings with blue roofs, the town's buildings and winding streets show influences from the island's onetime Venetian and British rulers.
Corfu also is one of the best places in Greece to experience the magical celebrations for Greek Easter. South of Corfu Town is one sight you can't miss.
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The monastery is usually closed, but walk over anyway on a narrow causeway that's right under the final approach to Corfu's airport -- heaven for aviation geeks like myself. Next, rent a car and drive around the island, exploring the sandy beaches and picturesque hill towns. In the hilltop village of Pagi where Melina flipped her Citroen 2CV6 during the car chase , the Bond Cafe has memorabilia from filming.
If your travel budget is generous, you can rent the villa where Melina killed hitman Hector Gonzalez with her crossbow in the film, the villa was set in Spain.
Trust me, Meteora is one of the most striking places you'll ever visit , making it far worth the four-hour drive from Athens or the three-hour trek from Thessaloniki. Rising above the town of Kalambaka are immense monolithic pillars and giant boulders that border the Pindos Mountains in northern Greece. Sitting atop the ridges are six Orthodox monasteries, the oldest of which was built in the 13th century. Though all are active monasteries, they admit tourists for a small fee. Bus tours from Kalambaka are available, but it's best if you rent a car and explore the monasteries on your own -- a paved circular road connects all six.
Though each is worth a visit, Bond fans shouldn't miss the Monastery of The Holy Trinity , which played the part of the abandoned St. Cyril's in the film. As the monks wouldn't permit the film crews inside, interior shots were done on a soundstage. The real thing is better, in any case. You'll see some rich frescos before walking the grounds to take in the jaw-dropping view of the valley below.
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