James Bond heads to Cortina d’Ampezzo, a ski resort in northern Italy in For Your Eyes Only. Cortina: Full-Day Hike through The Dolomites.Venice Grand Canal: Private Gondola Ride and Serenade.La Maddalena Archipelago: Full-Day Trip by Boat.PRO TIP: Book your Venice hotel in advance Don’t worry, that was filmed in a studio, and no palazzos came to harm. It all ends with a confrontation inside a Venetian palazzo that comes crumbling into the canal. Before that happens, we get a lovely montage of the city as Bond and Vesper cruise the Grand Canal, with many famous attractions in the background. If Daniel Craig is your Bond, you’ll remember that Venice is where he gets his heart broken by Vesper Lynd. He checks into the Hotel Danieli and visits Ca’ Rezzonico, a former palace now turned 18th-century museum. Moore’s Bond raced bad guys in speedboats along the Grand Canal before ending in Piazza San Marco, Venice’s famous main square.
But hey, it was 1963, and Sean Connery was Bond. While many of the movie’s scenes were filmed in Venice, the iconic gondola scene was completed in the studio. The first time Bond made a trip to Venice, he romanced Tatiana Romanova of the Soviet intelligence under the Bridge of Sighs.
