Venice Filming Locations: 12 Movie Locations You Can Visit

Want more than the highlights? My Venice On Screen digital guide includes 29 locations from 15 movies, an interactive map, individual Google Maps links, scene references and notes on where filmmakers cheated Venice with sets, effects and creative geography.

What else from Spider-Man can you see in Venice?

Quite a lot.

Peter's class arrives through Marco Polo Airport before travelling into Venice past Santa Maria della Salute. During the Water Elemental battle, Peter follows Mysterio toward Campo Santa Maria Formosa, where the church bell tower appears to collapse.

The real tower remains reassuringly vertical.

The Leonardo da Vinci Museum in Campo San Rocco also appears when the students discover that the museum is closed, while Venice's Arsenale becomes the entrance to a secret facility.

For the easiest bit of Spider-Man location hunting, though, start at Rialto Bridge. You were probably going there anyway.

If you're fitting these movie locations into a short first trip, our realistic 2-day Venice itinerary already takes you past Rialto Bridge, St. Mark's Square and the Bridge of Sighs.

Visiting the Casino Royale location

Campiello del Remer is a small square rather than one of Venice's major attractions, which makes it much easier to miss than the Rialto Bridge nearby. That's also part of the appeal. You can go from one of the busiest areas in Venice to a location from the Casino Royale finale within a few minutes.

3. Church of San Barnaba - Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade

Location: Church of San Barnaba, Campo San Barnaba
Movie: Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989)
Can you visit it? Yes

One of Venice's most recognizable movie locations sits in the quieter Dorsoduro neighbourhood. In Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, Indy arrives in Venice searching for clues left by his father and visits a library where an enormous X on the floor eventually leads him into catacombs beneath the building.

The exterior of that "library" is actually the Church of San Barnaba. Unfortunately, the catacombs underneath it are pure movie invention. The church façade was used for the movie, while the library interiors were created for filming rather than shot inside the actual church.

4. Ponte dei Conzafelzi - Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning

Location: Ponte dei Conzafelzi, Castello
Movies: Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning (2023), A Haunting in Venice (2023)
Can you visit it? Yes

This little iron bridge is exactly the sort of Venice movie location I love: memorable on screen, easy to visit, and small enough that you could walk straight past it without knowing what happened there.

In Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning, Ponte dei Conzafelzi becomes the location of the nighttime fight between Ilsa Faust and Gabriel. Unlike some of the movie's more elaborate action locations, the bridge is real.

The Venice section of Dead Reckoning also uses the Doge's Palace, the streets around St. Mark's Square, and The Gritti Palace.

A Haunting in Venice

Ponte dei Conzafelzi also appears in Kenneth Branagh's A Haunting in Venice, including an early sequence involving Hercule Poirot. But there's an important catch if you're searching for the movie's most famous location: the haunted palazzo itself does not exist as one complete Venetian building.

Its interiors and much of the exterior environment were constructed at Pinewood Studios, with real Venetian palaces and locations used as inspiration and for other scenes.

The movie did, however, film around real Venice locations including St. Mark's Square, the Doge's Palace, Campo San Samuele, Palazzo Grimani and Palazzo Contarini del Bovolo. So you can visit Poirot's Venice. You just can't book a séance at the haunted palazzo.

5. Palazzo Pisani Moretta - The Tourist

Location: Palazzo Pisani Moretta, Grand Canal
Movie: The Tourist (2010)
Can you visit it? Best seen from the Grand Canal

If The Tourist convinced you that Johnny Depp and Angelina Jolie were staying at the Hotel Danieli, the movie was playing a small trick. Or several tricks, actually.

Frank and Elise are supposed to stay at the famous Hotel Danieli, but the hotel you see on screen is actually assembled from several Venice buildings. Palazzo Pisani Moretta supplies the exterior and a hotel room, the real Hotel Danieli's Palazzo Dandolo supplies the lobby, and Palazzo Querini Benzon provides the balcony view.

It's very Venetian filmmaking: why use one beautiful palace when you can stitch three together?

Can you visit Palazzo Pisani Moretta?

Palazzo Pisani Moretta isn't a conventional museum that you can simply wander into whenever you like. It hosts events and occasional cultural programming, so access varies. The easiest way for most visitors to see the façade is from the Grand Canal.

The Tourist uses plenty of other recognizable Venice locations too, including Santa Lucia railway station, the Rialto Market, the Peggy Guggenheim Collection area, the Arsenale and Piazza San Marco.

6. Piazzetta dei Leoncini - Moonraker

Location: Piazzetta dei Leoncini, beside St. Mark's Basilica
Movie: Moonraker (1979)
Can you visit it? Yes

Roger Moore's Bond comes to Venice while investigating Hugo Drax and follows a trail involving a mysterious glassworks. The entrance to Drax's fictional glass business was filmed at the VENINI shop at San Marco 314 in Piazzetta dei Leoncini, immediately beside St. Mark's Basilica.

The glass museum interior wasn't actually behind that doorway: it was recreated in a studio.

There's another Screen vs Reality wrinkle if you visit today. As of October 2026, VENINI no longer lists a boutique at this address; Giobagnara now occupies Piazza San Marco 313-314.

So you're looking for the location, rather than expecting to walk into Drax's glassworks.

More Moonraker locations in Venice

The ridiculous - and therefore wonderful - motorized gondola chase sends Bond through several real Venice locations, including Piazza San Marco.

Later, Ca' Rezzonico is used when Bond returns to what should be Drax's laboratory and discovers that the equipment has disappeared. Ca' Rezzonico is now the Museum of 18th-Century Venice and can be visited with a ticket.

(Yes, this is the Bond movie with the pigeon doing a double take. Cinema achieved perfection in 1979.)

7. Caffè Florian - The Talented Mr. Ripley

Location: Caffè Florian, Piazza San Marco
Movie: The Talented Mr. Ripley (1999)
Can you visit it? Yes

Anthony Minghella's The Talented Mr. Ripley jumps between locations across Italy before eventually reaching Venice. One of its easiest locations to visit is Caffè Florian, beneath the arcades of St. Mark's Square. Marge voices her suspicions about Dickie's disappearance here, with Tom and Dickie's father present.

Unlike plenty of movie restaurants and cafés that disappear after filming, Florian is very much still operating. The historic café has been serving customers in St. Mark's Square since 1720.

You don't need to order anything to recognize the setting from the surrounding square, although stopping for a coffee gives you the more committed version of the experience.

If you're deciding whether a stop at Florian is worth the splurge, our Venice travel tips for first-time visitors also cover Caffè Florian, gondola prices and some of the other places where Venice can get expensive quickly.

Other Venice locations used in The Talented Mr. Ripley include Santa Lucia station and palazzi along the Grand Canal. Ripley's Venetian apartment itself was assembled from more than one real location. (Even fictional psychopaths struggle to find one Venice property with everything on the wish list.)

8. San Nicolò dei Mendicoli - Don't Look Now

Location: Church of San Nicolò dei Mendicoli, Dorsoduro
Movie: Don't Look Now (1973)
Can you visit it? Yes

Nicolas Roeg's Don't Look Now uses Venice very differently from the glossy spy movies. This is an off-season Venice of narrow alleys, empty canals and buildings that seem slightly too quiet. Few movies have made the city feel quite as unsettling.

Donald Sutherland's character, John Baxter, comes to Venice to oversee the restoration of an old church. That church is the real San Nicolò dei Mendicoli, in the western part of Dorsoduro.

The restoration shown in the film reflected real work being carried out on the church around that period, although the mosaic Baxter works on in the movie was a film prop.

You can still visit the area today. If seeing the interior matters to you, check current opening times before making the journey; the exterior and surrounding campo are worth seeing regardless.

9. Grand Hotel des Bains - Death in Venice

Location: Grand Hotel des Bains, Venice Lido
Movie: Death in Venice (1971)
Can you visit it? Exterior only for now

Luchino Visconti's Death in Venice is inseparable from the faded grandeur of the Venice Lido. The Grand Hotel des Bains served as Gustav von Aschenbach's hotel in the film, with some interiors recreated at Cinecittà Studios in Rome.

The hotel closed in 2010 and remained shuttered for years. As of October 2026, a €200 million restoration is underway, with the project targeting a 2030 reopening. That means you cannot currently wander into the lobby looking for Visconti.

For serious film fans, it's nevertheless one of Venice's most historically significant screen locations - and one that should change substantially over the next few years.

10. Bridge of Sighs - From Russia with Love

Location: Bridge of Sighs
Movie: From Russia with Love (1963)
Can you visit it? Yes

Long before Daniel Craig brought Bond back to Venice in Casino Royale, Sean Connery ended his second Bond adventure here. Bond and Tatiana Romanova are shown travelling by boat through Venice at the end of From Russia with Love, including the famous Bridge of Sighs.

There's a catch, though.

The actors weren't simply cruising through Venice while the camera followed them. Venice footage was captured by a second unit, while the closing shots of Bond and Tatiana sailing beneath the Bridge of Sighs use rear projection. So this is a real screen location, but also a good illustration of how filmmakers were creating "location filming" long before digital effects.

Where can you see the Bridge of Sighs?

You don't have to enter the Doge's Palace to see it. One of the classic public views is from Ponte della Paglia, just off St. Mark's Square. You can also see the other side from the smaller Ponte de Canonica.

If you visit the Doge's Palace, you can walk through the Bridge of Sighs itself as part of the museum route.

11. St. Mark's Square - The Italian Job

Location: Piazza San Marco
Movie: The Italian Job (2003)
Can you visit it? Yes

First, an important distinction: the Venice scenes are from the 2003 Italian Job, not the 1969 Michael Caine original. The original is closely associated with Italy, but its great Mini Cooper chase takes place in Turin. The 2003 remake actually begins its heist in Venice.

John Bridger speaks to his daughter from Piazza San Marco, where he also meets Charlie before the team moves into position. Other members of the crew gather at Campo San Barnaba before travelling by boat toward the heist.

The resulting escape takes the action through Venice's canals and onto the Grand Canal. St. Mark's Square isn't exactly a hidden movie location - there is a reasonable chance you'll accidentally visit it while attempting to do virtually anything in Venice - but watching the opening again before your trip makes the familiar square surprisingly fun to recognize.

(Once you start looking, you'll notice that Piazza San Marco has appeared in an absurd number of films.)

12. San Giorgio Maggiore - Sangam

Location: Venetian Lagoon and San Giorgio Maggiore
Movie: Sangam (1964)
Can you visit it? Yes

Hollywood is hardly the only film industry to fall in love with Venice. Raj Kapoor's 1964 romantic drama Sangam brought Indian cinema to the city during Radha and Sunder's European honeymoon.

The couple travel across the Venetian Lagoon, passing the Church of San Giorgio Maggiore, whose Palladian façade and campanile sit directly across the water from St. Mark's.

It's a fitting location to finish with because San Giorgio Maggiore is both instantly recognizable and easy to overlook. Huge numbers of visitors photograph it from the St. Mark's waterfront without ever crossing the lagoon to the island itself.

You can visit San Giorgio Maggiore separately from Venice's main historic centre, or simply recognize the view from the waterfront around St. Mark's Basin.

Sangam also gives this list a reminder that Venice's cinematic history stretches well beyond Bond, Hollywood blockbusters and European arthouse films. Bollywood has returned to the city repeatedly in the decades since.

If you enjoy travelling to places you recognize from the screen, our guide to the Under the Tuscan Sun filming locations in Tuscany does the same for Cortona and the surrounding countryside.

How to Visit Venice movie locations

You don't need to turn your Venice trip into one enormous filming-location scavenger hunt.

In fact, I wouldn't.

Many of the best movie locations sit naturally beside places you're probably visiting anyway. Rialto Bridge, Piazza San Marco and the Bridge of Sighs require essentially no detour. Campo San Barnaba fits easily into time spent exploring Dorsoduro, while smaller locations like Ponte dei Conzafelzi are much more fun when you realize you're already nearby.

The easiest approach is to save the locations you're interested in and check the map as you explore Venice rather than forcing yourself through a rigid walking route.

That's exactly why I designed Venice On Screen that way. And if cinematic travel is part of a longer Italy trip, the Gladiator filming location near Pienza is another real movie location you can visit.

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