Passport · Netflix, 2024 · eight episodes in black and white

Andrew Scott in a cream suit and open shirt on a festival carpet, hands loosely clasped — Andrew Scott, who plays Tom. Toronto, September 2025. Max Surprenant · CC BY 4.0

Surname of bearer

Ripley

Travelling as Greenleaf, Dickie

Visas · Italia

0 of 5 visas stamped. Stamp one to see what is really there.

The name is Dickie Greenleaf’s; the face is Tom’s. Steven Zaillian’s Ripley travels the same way: almost every place in it is carrying another place’s name.

Where the stamps come from

White and ochre houses stacked up a ravine above a small beach, with a domed church — Atrani from the coast road, September 2022. Luca Aless · CC BY-SA 4.0

The Amalfi Coast · 1960

A village of
about 800 people.

Zaillian and production designer David Gropman drove the Amalfi Coast looking for the town where Dickie Greenleaf had settled. Most were too modernised for a story set in 1960; Atrani, a village of about 800 people, was right. The series was filmed in 2021, during Covid, and Zaillian recalled that there were no tourists.

Tom’s bus pulls in below the Collegiata di Santa Maria Maddalena, above the Gulf of Salerno, and he climbs a long flight of steps to reach Dickie. The interior of Marge’s Atrani apartment was built on a stage in Rome.

A public square and beach, free at any hour. Buses on the Amalfi Coast road stop above the village.

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Clear the piazza back to 1960.

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Our drawing, not the set. The clutter is what any village has now; the production looked for one that had little of it.

A train yard in Rome

One platform,
three stations.

Tom moves through railway stations to stay ahead of what he has done. The Rome, Venice and San Remo platforms are one platform: 300 feet of it (about 91 metres), built at a train yard in Rome. Columns that turned on their axis made it Rome, Venice or San Remo. Turn the columns until they agree.

Where we read it

The Hollywood Reporter: 300 feet of platform was built at a train yard in Rome, rotating columns differentiated the Rome, Venice and San Remo stations, and five period cars were brought from Milan; the Palazzo dei Congressi plays the outside of Rome’s station.
The Hollywood Reporter: how Ripley was made (30 May 2024)

2 Roma, 2 Venezia, 1 San Remo. The columns do not agree: no train.

The lamp the series is lit by

Four Caravaggios,
and where they really are.

Robert Elswit, who shot the series, named Caravaggio as an inspiration: Zaillian wanted light and shadow on the world and on faces. Tom keeps going to look at him. Under each painting is a gallery label. Turn it from the screen to today.

Where we read it

The Hollywood Reporter: Elswit says Caravaggio, whose work is featured throughout the series, was an inspiration; Zaillian wanted to emphasise the play of light and shadow, in the world and on people’s faces.
The Hollywood Reporter: how Ripley was made (30 May 2024)

Caravaggio’s crowded night street scene with an angel and the Madonna above figures performing acts of mercy — Caravaggio, The Seven Works of Mercy, 1607. Pio Monte della Misericordia, Naples. Caravaggio · Public domain

Men at a table in a dark room turn as a shaft of light falls across them from the right, where Christ points — Caravaggio, The Calling of Saint Matthew, 1599–1600. Contarelli Chapel, San Luigi dei Francesi, Rome. Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio · Public domain

A young man emerges from darkness holding up a sword and a severed head, painted in deep shadow — Caravaggio, David with the Head of Goliath. Galleria Borghese, Rome. Caravaggio · Public domain

A dark nativity: the Virgin leans over the child on straw, saints and an angel above — Caravaggio, Nativity with Saint Francis and Saint Lawrence. Stolen from the Oratorio di San Lorenzo in October 1969. Caravaggio · Public domain

0 of 4 labels turned to today.

Rome

The papers, the flat,
and the stage it was built on.

Piazza di Pietra: Tom reads the papers at a bar on the square.

A row of shuttered palazzi with café tables along a quiet Roman square — Piazza di Pietra, Rome, September 2022: the café side of the square, facing the Temple of Hadrian. Jorge Franganillo · CC BY 2.0

Piazza di Pietra

Piazza di Pietra, Rome

Tom reads the papers at a bar in Piazza di Pietra, near Piazza della Minerva.

A public square, free at any hour, with cafés along one side.

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Arched vaults and balustrades of a monumental open staircase seen from below — Looking up into the open staircase of Palazzo Sanfelice, Naples, November 2018. Mongolo1984 · CC BY-SA 4.0

Palermo, played by Naples

A noisy hotel
in Palermo.

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CittàPalermo

IndirizzoHotel, Palermo

The registration card says Palermo.

The production filmed in Naples in October 2021. The pensione’s rooms were built on a stage in Rome. The real Palermo in this World is one oratory, and an empty altar.

A palazzo of private flats. Look at it from Via Sanità; do not walk into the courtyards uninvited.

Where we read it

The Hollywood Reporter: a Palermo pensione was built on a Rome stage.
The Hollywood Reporter: how Ripley was made (30 May 2024)

Venice · filmed January 2022

Whose furniture
is this?

A Renaissance palazzo with marble roundels and arched windows above the Grand Canal — Palazzo Contarini Polignac on the Grand Canal, May 2013. Didier Descouens · CC BY-SA 4.0

The 15th-century Palazzo Polignac is Tom’s palazzo in Venice. Gropman knew the city’s palazzi from designing Casanova there in 2005. When Marge first sees it she asks who died; Tom says an aunt.

Choose a room.

A private palazzo, not open to visitors. See it from the water or the far bank of the Grand Canal.

Where we read it

IndieWire: Marge asks who died when she first sees the palazzo, and Tom says it was the aunt who raised him; Gropman on the bedroom left as it was and the study the production furnished.
IndieWire: That Ripley Venetian palazzo is the real deal (Mark Peikert, 9 April 2024)

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A carved stone lunette with a reclining figure above a plaque reading DANIELI — The carved name over the Danieli’s door on the Riva degli Schiavoni, Venice, May 2015. Wolfgang Moroder · CC BY-SA 3.0

Hotel Danieli

Riva degli Schiavoni 4196, Venice

Interiors were filmed at the Danieli. The production filmed in Venice for about a month in January 2022.

A working hotel. Book a room, or a table, to go in.

Where we read it

Hotel Danieli

Hotel Danieli, Venice

Riva degli Schiavoni, Venice · Rates on the hotel’s site

Where the series filmed its Venice interiors, on the Riva degli Schiavoni a few steps from San Marco.

Check rooms

A narrow café room of mirrors, painted panels and small marble tables — Inside Caffè Florian on Piazza San Marco, August 2019. Armin Kleiner · CC BY-SA 4.0

Caffè Florian, Piazza San Marco

Piazza San Marco 57, Venice

About a hundred extras in early-1960s costume filled the arcades of Caffè Florian on Piazza San Marco. Gropman scouted Piazza San Marco while most of Europe was in lockdown, with not a soul in it.

The piazza is free; Florian is a working café under the arcades.

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Bearers

The faces
in the passports.

Andrew Scott

Tom Ripley

Zaillian’s first choice: he had only heard him, as a voice on the telephone in Locke. Scott learned Italian for three or four months before filming.

Dakota Fanning

Marge Sherwood

She felt no pressure to copy the 1999 film; the series made its own versions of the characters.

Johnny Flynn

Dickie Greenleaf

He liked that Dickie is seen only through Tom’s eyes: what Tom sees of him.

Steven Zaillian

Writer and director

He adapted Highsmith’s novel as an eight-episode series, directed it and won the 2024 Emmy for directing; Robert Elswit won it for cinematography. We have found no free photograph of Zaillian.

Where we read it

The Hollywood Reporter: Scott was Zaillian’s first choice, known to him from his voice in Locke; Scott learned Italian for three or four months; Fanning and Flynn on their roles.
The Hollywood Reporter: how Ripley was made (30 May 2024)
Television Academy: Ripley won four 2024 Emmys, including directing (Steven Zaillian) and cinematography (Robert Elswit).
Television Academy: Ripley

Exit stamps

Arrivederci.
Go and see them.

Where it is now

15 places you can visit in five areas. Dickie’s villa on Capri and Tom’s building on Via di Monserrato are private homes: they are named here and not pinned.

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

General reference · Public access · Coordinate precision: site · Not an exact scene or camera position; not a visitor route. A public square and beach, free at any hour. Buses on the Amalfi Coast road stop above the village.

Piazza Umberto I, Atrani, June 2017. Arnoldius · CC BY-SA 4.0
Piazza Umberto I, Atrani, Amalfi Coast
Piazza Umberto I, Atrani
Zaillian and production designer David Gropman drove the Amalfi Coast looking for the town where Dickie Greenleaf had settled. Most were too modernised for a story set in 1960; Atrani, a village of about 800 people, was right.
A public square and beach, free at any hour. Buses on the Amalfi Coast road stop above the village.
Where we read it

Stay

A room at the Danieli.

Where the series filmed its Venice interiors.

Hotel Danieli

Hotel Danieli, Venice

Riva degli Schiavoni, Venice · Rates on the hotel’s site

Where the series filmed its Venice interiors, on the Riva degli Schiavoni a few steps from San Marco.

Check rooms

Go there

The painting, the studio, the oratory.

The Seven Works of Mercy in Naples, Cinecittà in Rome, the oratory in Palermo, and tours on the coast and the canal.

Pio Monte della Misericordia

See the Seven Works of Mercy

Via dei Tribunali 253, Naples · €10 full, €8 reduced · Mon–Sat 10am–6pm (last entry 5.30pm), Sun 9am–2.30pm

The real painting in the real church, as in episode two.

Plan a visit

Cinecittà

Cinecittà si Mostra

Via Tuscolana 1055, Rome · Every day except Tuesday, 10am–6pm · ticket office closes 4.30pm

The studio where some of the series’ places were built; the visitor exhibitions and the ancient-Rome set tours.

Times and tickets

Città Metropolitana di Palermo

Oratorio di San Lorenzo

Via dell’Immacolatella, Palermo · Every day 10am–6pm · ticketed

The oratory of episode seven, with the reproduction of the stolen Nativity over the altar.

Visiting details

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