Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part One

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That market where Johnny Depp run in his pyjama, the canals where James Bond sailed his ship. The church from Indiana Jones.

They're still there. Exactly as they were. Walk up, look around —and suddenly the city clicks into focus in a way it never did before.

Moonraker

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This self-guided walking tour takes you through the real Venice — the one Hollywood kept coming back to. The city that doubled as a backdrop for spies, detectives, superheroes and romantics. 

Start at the Rialto Market, where Johnny Depp leapt from a rooftop into a fruit stall for The Tourist. Cross the Rialto Bridge — or rather, the one Spider-Man defended, rebuilt brick by brick on a London soundstage so convincingly that even the seaweed was real. Follow the Grand Canal, where a 54-foot James Bond yacht sailed for the first time in three centuries to film Casino Royale.

Cinematic stops. Each one a film location. Each one a story you didn't know.

Stand at San Marco Square — where Tom Hanks crossed the piazza in Inferno convinced he was in the right city (he wasn't), where Roger Moore drove a gondola-hovercraft past bewildered tourists in Moonraker, and where Daniel Craig ran the wrong way to reach a bank that was actually a Longchamp store. Walk to the Doge's Palace, where Tom Cruise sprinted full speed through candlelit Gothic arches in Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning, a cameraman on a bicycle keeping pace beside him.

Pause at the Bridge of Sighs, where Sean Connery glided past in From Russia with Love — without ever setting foot in Venice. Step inside Caffè Florian, open since 1720, where Casanova, Hemingway and Grace Kelly once sat — and where Matt Damon played Tom Ripley meeting his match in The Talented Mr. Ripley. End at the Ponte dell'Accademia, where Harrison Ford spent exactly one morning on the Grand Canal before the crew packed up and went back to London.

This is Venice through the lens of cinema. Casino Royale. Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade. The Talented Mr. Ripley. Mission: Impossible. Moonraker. Spider-Man: Far From Home. Inferno. Films that chose Venice not because it was convenient — but because nowhere else looks quite like this.

The MovieWalks Venice Rialto tour is a self-guided film location walk through the heart of the city. No group. No fixed schedule. Download the app, start at the Rialto Market, and walk at your own pace through one of the most filmed cities on earth.

Venice on Film. Walk It.