Where was No Time to Die filmed? Mostly in Matera, though not everything you see there is in Matera. The film’s Italian town, Civita Lucana, doesn’t exist. It’s stitched together from the old town of Matera, a cliff road near Maratea, the railway station at Sapri, and a Roman-era bridge that is actually in Gravina in Puglia, about 30km away. Bond’s retirement in Jamaica was filmed in and around Port Antonio, which also plays Cuba. Norway is partly Norway and partly the Scottish Highlands and an English forest. Safin’s island is in the Faroe Islands, and we’ve already covered it among the villain lairs you can visit.
So we ranked twenty-one real places from the film by how close a fan can get today to the spot where the character actually is in the scene, the same ladder we used for our Skyfall and Casino Royale filming locations. A place you can walk into, open to the public for free or an ordinary ticket, beats one you have to book, which beats one you can only see from the pavement, which beats one where the thing on screen is gone, even if you can still walk the ground. When two places sit on the same rung, the one that lets you recreate more of the shot ranks higher: more of what’s on screen still standing, and you closer to where the camera was. Places you can’t reach at all are left out, and so are studio sets, so the Cuban party, Belmarsh and the inside of Safin’s lair aren’t here. Spoilers throughout. Travel details were checked in November 2026 and change often, so confirm before you go.
21 to 18: Nothing Left to Get Close To
21. San San Beach, Port Antonio: Bond’s House in Jamaica
Five years out of the service, Bond sails into a quiet bay on Jamaica’s north coast, ties up at the end of a long wooden jetty and walks up to his house, where cigar ash outside tells him someone has been there. Jamaica’s Ministry of Tourism says the filmmakers built Bond’s beach house on San San Beach, just east of Port Antonio, and it was taken down when filming finished. Sources differ on exactly which bay the jetty was in.
How close you get: The house is gone. The bay and the beach are still there, but San San is privately owned and charges for entry.
Getting there: The beach is off the A4 east of Port Antonio. The Jamaica Tourist Board’s Port Antonio beach guide calls it a private getaway with an entry fee, but that guide is from 2018, so check the current price locally. Retirement was temporary. So was the house.
20. Langvann, Nittedal: Madeleine’s Childhood Home
The film opens on a frozen lake in Norway, where Safin comes for Mr. White’s family and young Madeleine runs out onto the ice to escape him. Years later Bond drives up to the same house, finds Madeleine there and meets her daughter, Mathilde. The house was built for the film at the northern end of Langvann, a lake near Hakadal in Nittedal, north of Oslo. Its interiors were filmed at Pinewood.
How close you get: You can walk the lakeshore and the forest under Norway’s right to roam. We couldn’t confirm whether any of the house is still there.
Getting there: Norway’s right to roam lets you walk nearly anywhere outside fenced or cultivated land, and campfires are banned from 15 April to 15 September, according to Visit Norway’s right of access page. We found no official parking information for the lake. Stay off the ice.
19. Vesper’s Grave, Matera: The Cemetery Across the Gorge
Madeleine persuades Bond to visit Vesper’s grave so he can let her go. The tomb explodes, and SPECTRE’s men are waiting. The cemetery doesn’t exist. The production built it in two places: on the Murgia plateau across the gorge from Matera’s old town, near the rock church of Madonna delle Vergini, where Vesper’s tomb stood, and in Gravina in Puglia, for the shots with the bridge behind. Italy’s official tourism site points to the church on the hill as the cemetery’s setting.
How close you get: The tomb and the sets are gone. The view back across the gorge to the old town, which is what made the cemetery look like that, is still there.
Getting there: Italy’s official tourism site says you can reach Murgia Timone by car or on path 406 from the old town. Not all of the rock churches are open, and the park’s own site wouldn’t load for us to check trail closures, so check with the park before you set off.
18. Belvedere di Piazza Pascoli, Matera: The Hotel Room With the View
Bond and Madeleine’s hotel room looks straight out over the old town of Matera. You can’t book it. The room was a set, built on a platform at the viewpoint at the bottom of Piazza Giovanni Pascoli, next to Palazzo Lanfranchi, to make the most of that view, and it was taken down after filming. The hotel door Bond runs back through later in the sequence is a real one, at Palazzo Viceconte.
How close you get: The room is gone, but you can stand on the spot where it was built and look at exactly what Bond and Madeleine looked at. Of everything on this rung, this is the one that gives you the most of the shot.
Getting there: The viewpoint is free and open, at the top of the old town. The City of Matera’s walks through the Sassi start nearby. You get the view. You don’t get room service.
17 to 14: Pavement Only
17. Senate House, London: MI6’s Front Desk
Back in London, Bond walks into MI6 as a visitor, no longer the agent with the number. The reception is MacMillan Hall in Senate House, the University of London’s headquarters in Bloomsbury, and the university itself lists it as “the reception of MI6” in No Time to Die.
How close you get: MacMillan Hall is used for hired events, not visits. The Senate House Library, on the fourth floor of the same building, sells visitors a day ticket for its reading collections, but that gets you into the library, not the hall.
Getting there: Senate House is on Malet Street, near Russell Square and Goodge Street stations. Day tickets need photo ID and proof of address, according to the library’s visiting page, and the price has changed recently, so check before you go.
16. Roupell Street, Waterloo: Q’s House
Bond and Moneypenny turn up unannounced at Q’s terraced house near Waterloo, the V8 parked outside. The street is Roupell Street, a row of 1820s workers’ cottages in a Lambeth conservation area. The house is someone’s home, so we’re not giving the number.
How close you get: You can walk down the street and see the row of terraces the V8 pulled up beside. Q’s front door is a private one.
Getting there: It’s a short walk from Waterloo station. Lambeth’s conservation area profile describes the terraces. Q didn’t invite Bond either, but please don’t knock.
15. Whitehall Court, London: Back at MI6
Bond parks his old Aston Martin V8 on Whitehall Court, at the corner of Horse Guards Avenue, and walks across to MI6. The headquarters on screen is the real Ministry of Defence Main Building, standing in for the intelligence service.
How close you get: You can stand on the corner where Bond parked and look at the same building. You can’t follow him in. It’s a working government department with no public visits.
Getting there: Whitehall Court is a short walk from Embankment station. Parking there is not recommended.
14. 10-11 Carlton House Terrace, London: Madeleine’s Office
Madeleine, now a psychotherapist in London, crosses The Mall from St James’s Park, walks up the Duke of York Steps below the column and climbs the staircase to her office, where Safin is waiting for her as a patient. The crossing was filmed on The Mall. The staircase and the office scene were filmed at 10-11 Carlton House Terrace, home of the British Academy, right next to the column.
How close you get: The Mall, the park and the Duke of York Steps are public, so you can follow her whole walk. Inside is another matter. The British Academy opens the building for its events programme, most of it with advance registration, but we couldn’t confirm that any event takes you up the staircase she climbs, and her office isn’t open to visitors.
Getting there: Events are on the British Academy’s events page. Some of St James’s Park’s gates open at 5am and close at midnight, according to the Royal Parks.
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13. Swinley Forest, Berkshire: The Fight in the Fog
In Norway, Bond tells Madeleine and Mathilde to hide and goes into the misty forest after Logan Ash’s men. The forest is in England: the woodland on the Crown Estate’s land around Swinley Forest, near Bracknell, which is part of Windsor Great Park.
How close you get: The forest is free to walk. We couldn’t pin down the exact clearing, so this is the one entry on the rung where you’ll be recreating the mood rather than the shot.
Getting there: The paid car park is at The Look Out on Nine Mile Ride. Windsor Great Park’s Swinley Forest page gives £4 for up to four hours and £7 for the day, though Bracknell Forest Council’s pages show different prices. Timber harvesting has closed some tracks through 2026.
12. Ardverikie Estate, Loch Laggan: The Chase by the Loch
Still supposedly in Norway, Bond, Madeleine and Mathilde race along a lochside track in Madeleine’s Land Cruiser with Ash’s men behind them. It was filmed on the Ardverikie Estate on the shore of Loch Laggan in the Scottish Highlands, which Screen Scotland lists as doubling for Norway.
How close you get: The estate says day visitors are welcome to walk its public areas at any time. Motor vehicles of any kind aren’t allowed anywhere on the estate, so you’ll be doing the chase on foot.
Getting there: Park in the layby on the A86 and walk in, and avoid the deer-stalking season from August to March, according to the estate’s public access page. Drones are forbidden. Bring boots, not a Land Cruiser.
11. The SS18 Coast Road, Maratea: Arriving, and Leaving
Bond drives Madeleine toward Matera in the silver DB5 on a road cut into the cliffs above the sea, past an old watchtower, and disappears into a tunnel. At the very end of the film, Madeleine drives Mathilde along the same stretch in the V8. The road is the SS18 between Sapri and Acquafredda, on the coast near Maratea. The tower, the Torre dei Crivi, is real. The tunnel the car enters is not.
How close you get: It’s a public state road, so you can drive the same curves past the same tower.
Getting there: Italy’s official tourism site has a page on the SS18 coast road. The road operator ANAS closed the stretch between Acquafredda and Sapri during the day until February 2026, for a new tunnel and rockfall work on the Crivi ridge, and we couldn’t find a later notice, so check before you drive. Look out for the tunnel. It isn’t there.
10. Harbour Street, Port Antonio: Stranded at Piggy’s
Bond comes back to his Land Rover on the Port Antonio seafront to find it has been disabled. Nomi pulls up on her Vespa and offers him a lift, and the two of them ride off east along Allan Avenue. The spot is where Harbour Street meets the seafront, outside Piggy’s Jerk Centre. The restaurant burned down after filming, and the Jamaica Observer reported that the production donated toward rebuilding it, so it looks different today.
How close you get: It’s a public street on the waterfront, and the restaurant reopened after the fire. The tourism board still lists it.
Getting there: Piggy’s is listed among the Jamaica Tourist Board’s places to eat in Port Antonio. We couldn’t find its opening hours. Arrive by any means other than a Vespa you haven’t been offered.
9. Lower Mall, Hammersmith: Bond and M by the River
Bond and M talk on the riverside in west London, with Hammersmith Bridge behind them, about what M has been building in secret. It was filmed on the Lower Mall promenade, beside the Furnivall Sculling Club.
How close you get: It’s a riverside walk, and the bridge in the background is still there.
Getting there: Hammersmith Bridge is closed to motor traffic but open to people on foot and on bikes, according to Richmond Council’s bridge page. The promenade is a short walk from Hammersmith station.
8. Via D’Addozio, Matera: The First Look at the Sassi
Bond and Madeleine come out of a tunnel in the DB5 and the old town of Matera opens up below them. They leave the car with a valet at the bottom of Via Bruno Buozzi and walk to their hotel along Via Muro, with the town lit by bonfires. The view was shot from the bottom of Via D’Addozio. The tunnel was added digitally, and so was the bridge on the left of the frame, which is really in Gravina.
How close you get: The streets are public and the view is real, minus the tunnel and the borrowed bridge.
Getting there: Matera’s old town is a limited traffic zone, with cameras at the Via D’Addozio and Via Buozzi entrances from 10am in the day, according to the City of Matera’s ZTL page. Come on foot. There is no valet.
7. Palazzo Viceconte, Matera: Back to the Hotel
After shaking off Primo, Bond rides the stolen motorbike into the little square opposite the Palazzo Viceconte, dumps it and runs inside to confront Madeleine. The Palazzo Viceconte is a real hotel, and it says some sequences were shot inside. The room upstairs with the famous view was a set built somewhere else.
How close you get: The square is public, and the hotel takes guests. Its roof terrace bar is open to the public as well as guests from spring to early autumn.
Getting there: The hotel is on Via San Potito. The roof terrace bar page has the details. Please park your bike more carefully than Bond did.
6. Sapri Station, Campania: The Goodbye
Convinced Madeleine has betrayed him, Bond drives her to the station and puts her on a train, telling her they will never see each other again. The station is Sapri, on the coast of Campania, standing in for Civita Lucana. The shot of the station front was flipped in the edit, so it’s the mirror image of the real thing.
How close you get: It’s a working station on the main line along the coast, so arriving by train puts you on the platform where they say goodbye.
Getting there: The station is open from the first train of the day to the last and has a staffed ticket office, according to the rail network operator’s Sapri page. Regional and Intercity trains stop there. Unlike Madeleine, you can pick your own train.
5. The Atlantic Ocean Road, Norway: The Drive to Madeleine’s
Bond drives the V8 across a string of low bridges over the sea to find Madeleine, and later Bond, Madeleine and Mathilde flee along the same road in her Land Cruiser, with Ash’s men in pursuit. The road is the Atlantic Ocean Road on Norway’s west coast, a long way from the lake near Oslo where her house is supposed to be.
How close you get: It’s a public road, and the bridges and islands are exactly as they look on screen.
Getting there: The route is one of Norway’s National Tourist Routes, 36km from Kårvåg to Bud, according to National Tourist Routes, which warns cyclists about strong winds on the bridges. Fjord Norway says it’s toll free.
4. Piazza Duomo, Matera: The Motorbike Jump
Bond, on a motorbike he has just taken from Primo, races up through the old town and meets a religious procession coming down from the cathedral. He rides up the side wall and jumps into the cathedral square. The wall he takes off from was a disguised ramp built for the stunt, and the square is the real Piazza Duomo, beside Matera’s cathedral.
How close you get: The square is public, and so are the steps up to it.
Getting there: Italy’s official tourism site has a page on the cathedral with its phone number, but we couldn’t find official opening hours. Take the steps.
3. Market Square, Port Antonio: Bond Loses His Tail
Bond drives his Land Rover into Port Antonio, spots Felix Leiter’s car following him, loops around the war memorial in the square and boxes Felix in. Felix’s colleague Logan Ash introduces himself on the corner by Musgrave Market, and the three of them walk up William Street to a club. The square is the real one at the junction of West Street and William Street, with its memorial to the people of Portland. The club was not real.
How close you get: It’s a public town square, and the memorial and the streets around it are all there. Musgrave Market burned in 2023, and we couldn’t confirm whether the rebuilt market is finished, so that corner may look different.
Getting there: The National Library of Jamaica has a record of the Port Antonio cenotaph in the square. Lap the memorial on foot, please.
2. Piazza San Giovanni Battista, Matera: The DB5 Under Fire
SPECTRE’s cars box the DB5 into a small square, and the gunmen open fire with Madeleine beside Bond. He waits, then answers with the guns Q built into the headlights, spins the car in a cloud of smoke and gets out down Via San Biagio. The square is Piazza San Giovanni Battista, in front of the church of the same name. The bell tower the camera seems to be watching from was added digitally.
How close you get: The square and the church are both real and public. You can stand in the middle of the ring of smoke.
Getting there: It’s on the edge of the old town, on foot. The City of Matera’s walks through the Sassi cover the area. Leave the doughnuts to the professionals.
1. Ponte Acquedotto, Gravina in Puglia: The Bridge Jump
After the explosion at Vesper’s grave, Bond runs onto a high stone bridge with SPECTRE’s men closing in from both ends, and goes over the side on a cable. The film places the bridge next to Matera. It’s really the Ponte Acquedotto in Gravina in Puglia, about 30km north, moved there digitally. The cables and the concrete block Bond shelters behind were added for the film. The bridge itself is all real.
How close you get: You can walk across it, and when its restoration was finished in 2024 the town said it was fully open to residents and visitors.
Getting there: The town’s announcement of the restoration covers the new lighting, and Italy’s official tourism site has a page on the bridge. Gravina is about 30km from Matera. Use the steps down, not a cable.
The Verdict
Twenty-one places, not one of them you have to book, and a town that isn’t on any map. Most of the real streets that make up Civita Lucana are free to walk, as long as you leave the car outside Matera’s traffic zone. The two houses that bookend Bond’s last mission, his own in Jamaica and Madeleine’s in Norway, were both built for the film.