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Sean Connery in the Aston Martin and Tania Mallet at the Aurora filling station, Andermatt, filming Goldfinger in 1964. Comet Photo AG (Zürich), ETH-Bibliothek · CC BY-SA 4.0

Location report · Andermatt, 1964 · file 007

James
Bond

Behind the title: Goldfinger being filmed at a filling station in Andermatt, 1964. The villains’ lairs were real places too, and most are open: a turning restaurant on a Swiss summit, a dam you can jump, an island you can sail to, and the desk in Jamaica where it began.

In the barrel: Schilthorn, Switzerland

A rocky ridge rising out of cloud to a round summit building, with snow peaks behind
The Schilthorn summit and Piz Gloria above the cloud, 2012. Ximonic (Simo Räsänen) · CC BY-SA 3.0
  1. Sean Connery in a tweed jacket with his arm round a smiling Tania Mallet
    Sean Connery and Tania Mallet filming Goldfinger at the Furka Pass and Andermatt, 1964. Comet Photo AG (Zürich), ETH-Bibliothek · CC BY-SA 4.0

    Connery and MalletFurka Pass, 1964

  2. Ursula Andress on a beach in a white bikini with a knife at her belt
    Ursula Andress in a publicity photograph for Dr. No, 1962. United Press International · Public domain

    Ursula AndressDr. No, 1962

  3. Sean Connery pretending to push an ice cream cone at a uniformed officer
    Sean Connery jokes with Lt. Col. Charles Russhon on the set of Thunderball, 1965. US Air Force · Public domain

    Connery on setThunderball, 1965

The file

Five Bonds.
14 addresses.

Choose a Bond, then lift the black bars. Of the 14 places under them, 12 are open to the public.

Sean Connery in a tweed jacket and tie, smiling, against a pale sky
Sean Connery in Switzerland, 1964. Comet Photo AG (Zürich) · CC BY-SA 4.0

Subject: Sean Connery

  1. Dr. No · 1962
  2. Goldfinger · 1964

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Mürren, Bernese Oberland

Blofeld’s lair
turns every 45 minutes.

Named Piz Gloria in the film, the revolving summit restaurant was the headquarters of Blofeld and Spectre, and the name has stuck. Piz Gloria turns once around its own axis in 45 minutes. Turn it yourself.

KITCHEN

0 min · 0°

The Schilthorn summit and Piz Gloria above the cloud, 2012. Photo: Ximonic (Simo Räsänen) · CC BY-SA 3.0. One photograph, repeated as the room turns; the red dot is your table.

To make the cableway look like Blofeld’s own, its five cabins were painted orange; they ran in that colour for more than 25 years.

George Lazenby in a tweed suit, lighting a cigarette
George Lazenby at Mürren and the Schilthorn, November 1968. Comet Photo AG (Zürich) · CC BY-SA 4.0

On Her Majesty’s Secret Service was shot on the Schilthorn between 21 October 1968 and 17 May 1969.

The film paid for the summit station’s fixtures and fittings, which passed to the cableway; the cableway carried crew and kit free.

Bond World, the 007 Walk of Fame and the Bond Cinema are at the summit today.

Cable car from Stechelberg, via Mürren, to the summit. Brunch in the turning restaurant is served daily until 2pm; book a table.

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A round glass-walled restaurant on a snowy summit terrace
Piz Gloria, the revolving restaurant on the Schilthorn, 2015. Ank kumar · CC BY-SA 4.0
Schilthorn Cableway

Brunch at Piz Gloria

Schilthorn · Brunch CHF 39 · with early cable car from CHF 106

Brunch in the revolving restaurant, daily until 2pm. Packages include the cable car from Stechelberg or Mürren.

Book a table
Schilthorn Cableway

The James Bond package, Hotel Alpenruh

Mürren · CHF 456 for two

A night in Mürren for two with dinner, breakfast at Piz Gloria if you like, the cable car to the summit and the 007 exhibition. Not at Christmas, New Year or in the February holidays.

See the package
A curved concrete dam wall dropping into a green gorge
The Verzasca (Contra) Dam, 2021. dconvertini · CC BY-SA 2.0

Vogorno, Ticino

220 metres.
You can book it.

The 220-metre dam is the setting for the opening scene of GoldenEye, with Pierce Brosnan. You can make the same jump: the 007, or GoldenEye, bungee jump.

On the crest. 220 metres to go.

Jumps run Friday to Sunday until the end of October, then again from April. A first jump is CHF 255 for adults.

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007 Bungy, Verzasca dam

The GoldenEye bungee jump

Vogorno, Ticino · First jump CHF 255 · Fri–Sun to end of October

The 220-metre jump from the GoldenEye dam, with an aperitif and a demonstration by the stunt team first.

Book a jump
A tall old hotel on a hairpin bend of a mountain road, cars parked outside
The Hotel Belvédère on the Furka Pass road, 2024. Edtrnchf · CC BY 4.0

Furka Pass, Valais

The Furka Pass and the Hotel Belvédère

Sean Connery drove the pass road as Bond in Goldfinger.

From the Hotel Belvédère, about three kilometres below the top, you see the Rhone Glacier, much smaller now than in 1850.

A high mountain road over the pass. The Hotel Belvédère stands on a bend about three kilometres below the top, on the Valais side.

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A long concrete building cut into a snowy summit ridge under blue sky
007 Elements at the Gaislachkogl summit, 2022. Thomas Dahlstrøm Nielsen · CC BY-SA 4.0

Sölden, Tyrol

007 Elements, Gaislachkogl

Scenes from Spectre were shot in Sölden; the installation shows them alongside the other Bond adventures.

007 ELEMENTS is inside the Gaislachkogl at 3,048 metres: 1,300 m² in nine halls and an open-air plaza.

Only by the Gaislachkoglbahn, about 30 minutes up in two sections. Entry €26; the cable car is extra. Book an entry slot.

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Sölden

007 Elements

Sölden · Adults €26 · from 12 November 2026

Nine halls inside the Gaislachkogl, where Spectre was filmed. Book an entry slot; the cable car is extra.

Book entry

Jamaica and Phang Nga Bay

Where Bond was written,
and the island that took his name.

A plain wooden desk under jalousie blinds, a man seated beside it
Fleming’s desk at GoldenEye, Oracabessa, 2011. Dagomir Marquezi · CC BY-SA 4.0

The desk at GoldenEye

At GoldenEye, his home in Jamaica, Ian Fleming created James Bond. Fleming first visited Jamaica in 1943 and chose to build a house there.

Fleming built the house without glass windows, with Jamaican jalousie blinds to let in the air and sun.

Now a hotel: you visit by staying. Fleming’s own house, the Fleming Villa, takes guests.

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GoldenEye

GoldenEye, Oracabessa

St Mary, Jamaica

Fleming’s Jamaican home, where he created Bond, is now a hotel on Oracabessa Bay; his own house, the Fleming Villa, takes guests.

Check rooms
A wide stepped waterfall running through tropical trees, people climbing it
Dunn’s River Falls, Ocho Rios, 2025. Dr. Thomas Liptak · CC BY-SA 4.0

Ocho Rios, St Ann, Jamaica

Dunn’s River Falls

Dunn’s River Falls and Laughing Waters take Bond fans back to Dr. No. The falls run 183 metres, or 960 feet, and visitors climb them.

A public park; you can climb the falls. Check the day’s hours and tickets with the park.

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Two tall limestone islands rising sheer from calm sea
Khao Phing Kan and Ko Tapu, 2016. Kemal Kaya (maxmajestic) · CC BY-SA 2.5
A narrow limestone spire standing in green water, a long-tail boat passing
Ko Tapu in Phang Nga Bay, 2013. Diego Delso · CC BY-SA 3.0

Phang Nga Bay, Thailand

James Bond Island

The island became famous after it appeared in The Man with the Golden Gun. Ko Tapu, the narrow limestone rock standing in the water, has become the image of Phang Nga Bay.

Boats run from Phuket, Krabi and Phang Nga. The dry season, November to April, is the best time.

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A hillside of pale stone houses and cave dwellings rising to a cathedral bell tower
The Sassi of Matera, 2026. Maksimsokolov · CC BY-SA 4.0

Basilicata and Lake Como

A stone city,
a lakeside loggia.

In No Time To Die Bond makes a motorbike jump in Piazza del Duomo. Trapped in Piazza San Giovanni, Bond fights back with the car’s guns. The hotel with three big windows over the Sassi was built for the film.

The squares are open to all: walk from Piazza San Giovanni Battista up to Piazza del Duomo.

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An ivy-covered three-arched loggia above a clipped lawn
The loggia of the Villa del Balbianello, 2019. Phyrexian · CC BY-SA 4.0

Villa del Balbianello

In Casino Royale Bond recovers here with Vesper, and they kiss under the loggia.

Run by FAI and open to visitors: buy tickets on FAI’s site and check the day’s opening first.

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Britain

Home turf.
6 British addresses.

An old warship towed by a small steam tug against a blazing sunset
J.M.W. Turner, The Fighting Temeraire, 1839. J. M. W. Turner · Public domain

The National Gallery · Trafalgar Square

Room 34

A Skyfall scene is set in Room 34, in front of Turner’s The Fighting Temeraire.

Free, daily 10am–6pm, Fridays to 9pm. The Fighting Temeraire now hangs in Room 40.

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  1. A great pyramid mountain over a green glen with a single white cottage
    Buachaille Etive Mòr from the A82 in Glen Coe, 2015. Colin · CC BY-SA 4.0

    Skyfall · 2012

    Glen Coe and Glen Etive

    Glen Coe and nearby Glen Etive gave Skyfall (2012) some of its most memorable scenery.

    The A82 runs through Glen Coe beneath Buachaille Etive Mòr; Glen Etive opens off it just beside the mountain.

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  2. A stone castle on a small island joined to the shore by an arched bridge
    Eilean Donan Castle at sunrise, 2011. Diliff · CC BY-SA 3.0

    The World Is Not Enough · 1999

    Eilean Donan Castle

    In The World Is Not Enough the castle was Castle Thane, MI6’s Scottish headquarters.

    Adults £13. Open 10am–4pm from 25 October to 22 December 2026, last entry 3pm; closed all January.

    Sources
  3. A vast baroque palace front across a wide gravel court
    Blenheim Palace from the Great Court, 2014. Steve Daniels · CC BY-SA 2.0

    Spectre · 2015

    Blenheim Palace

    In Spectre the Great Court stands in for the Palazzo Cardenza in Rome, where Spectre meets.

    Open 10am–5.30pm; passes give 12 months’ entry. The Lights Camera Action! trail shows where Bond was filmed.

    Sources
  4. A stepped cream and green-glass building beside a road
    The SIS Building at Vauxhall Cross, 2024. Colin Smith · CC BY-SA 2.0

    GoldenEye to Spectre

    The SIS Building, Vauxhall Cross

    The real MI6 building on the Thames appears in GoldenEye, The World Is Not Enough, Die Another Day, Skyfall and Spectre.

    The real MI6 headquarters: no entry. Look at it from Vauxhall Bridge or the river path.

    Sources
  5. A huge white windowless studio building with a sign on its side
    The 007 Stage at Pinewood Studios, 2006. Bionicbiff (English Wikipedia) · CC BY-SA 3.0

    The Spy Who Loved Me · 1977

    The 007 Stage, Pinewood Studios

    Ken Adam conceived the stage in 1976 to house his Liparus supertanker set for The Spy Who Loved Me.

    A working film studio, not a visitor attraction.

    Sources
Kingshouse Hotel

Kingshouse Hotel

Glen Coe

Rooms and a bunkhouse on the A82 in Glen Coe, under the mountain of Skyfall’s drive north. Not a filming location.

Check rooms
Eilean Donan Castle

Eilean Donan Castle

Dornie · Adults £13 · to 22 December 2026

Castle Thane in The World Is Not Enough. Shorter winter hours from 25 October.

Plan a visit
Blenheim Palace

Blenheim Palace and its film trail

Woodstock · Open 10am–5.30pm · passes last 12 months

The Great Court of Spectre, and a trail through the park to the places Bond was filmed.

Buy tickets
The National Gallery

The Fighting Temeraire

Trafalgar Square · Free · daily 10am–6pm

Turner’s painting from the Skyfall scene, now in Room 40. Book a free ticket for fast-track entry, or walk in.

Plan a visit

The Bonds, as themselves

Sean Connery in a tweed jacket and tie, smiling, against a pale sky
Sean Connery in Switzerland, 1964. Comet Photo AG (Zürich) · CC BY-SA 4.0

Sean ConnerySwitzerland, 1964

George Lazenby in a tweed suit, lighting a cigarette
George Lazenby at Mürren and the Schilthorn, November 1968. Comet Photo AG (Zürich) · CC BY-SA 4.0

George LazenbyMürren, 1968

Roger Moore in a dark jacket and patterned tie
Roger Moore, 1973. Allan warren · CC BY-SA 4.0

Roger Moore1973

Timothy Dalton in a dinner jacket and bow tie, smiling
Timothy Dalton at the Amsterdam premiere of The Living Daylights, 1987. Bart Molendijk / Anefo · CC BY-SA 3.0 NL

Timothy DaltonAmsterdam, 1987

Pierce Brosnan laughing, in a navy jacket, sea behind
Pierce Brosnan at Cannes, May 2002. Rita Molnár · CC BY-SA 2.5

Pierce BrosnanCannes, 2002

Daniel Craig in a dinner suit and black tie
Daniel Craig at the Sydney premiere of Skyfall, 2012. Liam Mendes · CC BY-SA 2.0

Daniel CraigSydney, 2012

A round blue plaque reading Ian Fleming, creator of James Bond, lived here
The blue plaque at 22 Ebury Street, 2014. Spudgun67 · CC BY-SA 4.0

Belgravia, London

Before Bond,
22 Ebury Street.

Fleming moved into 22B Ebury Street in late 1936 and left in 1941. English Heritage put up the blue plaque in 1996.

Fleming published Casino Royale, the first Bond book, in 1953, and wrote 12 Bond novels and seven short stories.

A private house. The plaque is on the front; look from the pavement and let the residents be.

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File closed. The places stay open.

Where it is now

14 places you can visit, from the Schilthorn to Phang Nga Bay. Fleming’s flat and the 007 Stage are named but not mapped.

Pins mark public places; private homes are named but not pinned.

  • General reference · Public access · Coordinate precision: building · Not an exact scene or camera position; not a visitor route. Cable car from Stechelberg, via Mürren, to the summit. Brunch in the turning restaurant is served daily until 2pm; book a table.

  • General reference · Public access · Coordinate precision: building · Not an exact scene or camera position; not a visitor route. Only by the Gaislachkoglbahn, about 30 minutes up in two sections. Entry €26; the cable car is extra. Book an entry slot.

  • General reference · Public access · Coordinate precision: building · Not an exact scene or camera position; not a visitor route. Jumps run Friday to Sunday until the end of October, then again from April. A first jump is CHF 255 for adults.

  • General reference · Public access · Coordinate precision: site · Not an exact scene or camera position; not a visitor route. A high mountain road over the pass. The Hotel Belvédère stands on a bend about three kilometres below the top, on the Valais side.

  1. A rocky ridge rising out of cloud to a round summit building, with snow peaks behind
    The Schilthorn summit and Piz Gloria above the cloud, 2012. Ximonic (Simo Räsänen) · CC BY-SA 3.0

    Mürren, Bernese Oberland

    Piz Gloria, Schilthorn

    On Her Majesty’s Secret Service was shot on the Schilthorn between 21 October 1968 and 17 May 1969.

    Cable car from Stechelberg, via Mürren, to the summit. Brunch in the turning restaurant is served daily until 2pm; book a table.

    Sources
  2. A long concrete building cut into a snowy summit ridge under blue sky
    007 Elements at the Gaislachkogl summit, 2022. Thomas Dahlstrøm Nielsen · CC BY-SA 4.0

    Sölden, Tyrol

    007 Elements, Gaislachkogl

    007 ELEMENTS is inside the Gaislachkogl at 3,048 metres: 1,300 m² in nine halls and an open-air plaza.

    Only by the Gaislachkoglbahn, about 30 minutes up in two sections. Entry €26; the cable car is extra. Book an entry slot.

    Sources
  3. A curved concrete dam wall dropping into a green gorge
    The Verzasca (Contra) Dam, 2021. dconvertini · CC BY-SA 2.0

    Vogorno, Ticino

    The Verzasca Dam

    The 220-metre dam is the setting for the opening scene of GoldenEye, with Pierce Brosnan.

    Jumps run Friday to Sunday until the end of October, then again from April. A first jump is CHF 255 for adults.

    Sources
  4. A tall old hotel on a hairpin bend of a mountain road, cars parked outside
    The Hotel Belvédère on the Furka Pass road, 2024. Edtrnchf · CC BY 4.0

    Furka Pass, Valais

    The Furka Pass and the Hotel Belvédère

    Some scenes of Goldfinger were shot on the Furka Pass in 1964.

    A high mountain road over the pass. The Hotel Belvédère stands on a bend about three kilometres below the top, on the Valais side.

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Stay

Sleep near the lair.

Fleming’s house in Jamaica, a night in Mürren under Piz Gloria, and an inn in Glen Coe.

GoldenEye

GoldenEye, Oracabessa

St Mary, Jamaica

Fleming’s Jamaican home, where he created Bond, is now a hotel on Oracabessa Bay; his own house, the Fleming Villa, takes guests.

Check rooms
Schilthorn Cableway

The James Bond package, Hotel Alpenruh

Mürren · CHF 456 for two

A night in Mürren for two with dinner, breakfast at Piz Gloria if you like, the cable car to the summit and the 007 exhibition. Not at Christmas, New Year or in the February holidays.

See the package
Kingshouse Hotel

Kingshouse Hotel

Glen Coe

Rooms and a bunkhouse on the A82 in Glen Coe, under the mountain of Skyfall’s drive north. Not a filming location.

Check rooms

Go there

Jump, brunch, sail.

The GoldenEye bungee, brunch at Piz Gloria, 007 Elements, Blenheim, Eilean Donan, the Temeraire, and boats into Phang Nga Bay.

007 Bungy, Verzasca dam

The GoldenEye bungee jump

Vogorno, Ticino · First jump CHF 255 · Fri–Sun to end of October

The 220-metre jump from the GoldenEye dam, with an aperitif and a demonstration by the stunt team first.

Book a jump
Schilthorn Cableway

Brunch at Piz Gloria

Schilthorn · Brunch CHF 39 · with early cable car from CHF 106

Brunch in the revolving restaurant, daily until 2pm. Packages include the cable car from Stechelberg or Mürren.

Book a table
Sölden

007 Elements

Sölden · Adults €26 · from 12 November 2026

Nine halls inside the Gaislachkogl, where Spectre was filmed. Book an entry slot; the cable car is extra.

Book entry
Blenheim Palace

Blenheim Palace and its film trail

Woodstock · Open 10am–5.30pm · passes last 12 months

The Great Court of Spectre, and a trail through the park to the places Bond was filmed.

Buy tickets
Eilean Donan Castle

Eilean Donan Castle

Dornie · Adults £13 · to 22 December 2026

Castle Thane in The World Is Not Enough. Shorter winter hours from 25 October.

Plan a visit
The National Gallery

The Fighting Temeraire

Trafalgar Square · Free · daily 10am–6pm

Turner’s painting from the Skyfall scene, now in Room 40. Book a free ticket for fast-track entry, or walk in.

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The register

Every place and moment behind this page, with sources.

16 of 16 places · 17 of 17 Moments

  • Piz Gloria, Schilthorn

    Mürren, Bernese Oberland

    • Piz Gloria

      The revolving summit restaurant becomes Blofeld’s headquarters.

  • 007 Elements, Gaislachkogl

    Sölden, Tyrol

    • Spectre in the snow

      Scenes from Spectre are shot in Sölden.

  • The Verzasca Dam

    Vogorno, Ticino

    • The jump

      The dam is the setting for the opening scene of GoldenEye.

  • The Furka Pass and the Hotel Belvédère

    Furka Pass, Valais

    • The pass road

      Bond drives the Furka Pass road in Goldfinger.

  • Matera

    Basilicata

    • Piazza San Giovanni

      Trapped in the square, Bond fights back with the car’s guns.

    • Piazza del Duomo

      Bond makes a motorbike jump in the cathedral square.

  • Villa del Balbianello

    Lenno, Lake Como

    • Under the loggia

      Bond recovers with Vesper, and they kiss under the loggia.

  • James Bond Island (Khao Phing Kan)

    Phang Nga Bay, Thailand

    • The island

      The island becomes famous after The Man with the Golden Gun.

  • GoldenEye, Oracabessa

    Oracabessa Bay, St Mary, Jamaica

    • Where Bond was born

      Ian Fleming creates James Bond at GoldenEye.

  • Dunn’s River Falls

    Ocho Rios, St Ann, Jamaica

    • Dr. No

      Dunn’s River Falls takes Bond fans back to Dr. No.

  • Glen Coe and Glen Etive

    Lochaber, Highlands

    • The drive north

      The Aston Martin DB5 is filmed on the A82 beneath the two Buachailles.

  • Eilean Donan Castle

    Dornie, Highlands

    • Castle Thane

      The castle plays MI6’s Scottish headquarters.

  • Blenheim Palace

    Woodstock, Oxfordshire

    • Palazzo Cardenza

      The Great Court stands in for a Roman palazzo where Spectre meets.

  • The National Gallery

    Trafalgar Square, London

    • Room 34

      A Skyfall scene is set in front of The Fighting Temeraire.

  • The SIS Building, Vauxhall Cross

    Albert Embankment, London

    • MI6

      The real MI6 building appears in five Bond films.

  • 22 Ebury Street

    Belgravia, London

    • 22B Ebury Street

      Fleming lives here before the war.

  • The 007 Stage, Pinewood Studios

    Iver Heath, Buckinghamshire

    • The supertanker stage

      The stage is built to house the Liparus supertanker set.

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