James Bond travels the world. These are the “Quantum of Solace” movie locations, from Italy to Austria, to Chile, to Bolivia and Panama.
In Quantum of Solace, James Bond (Daniel Craig) picks up loose ends from Casino Royale and a sinister organisation called Quantum brings him from an opera in Bregenz, Austria to the Atacama desert.
Here are all Quantum of Solace movie locations in Italy, Austria, the UK, Chile and Panama:
ITALY
Quantum of Solace opens where Casino Royale ended: At Lake Como in Italy. Bond drives his car along the Via Gardesana Centro on the eastern shore – the galleries are north of the village Malcesine. Magically, he then arrives some 100 kilometer south at the famous marble quarry of Carrara. Another “jump” then brings Bond into Siena. The MI6 safehouse is at Piazzetta della Paglietta, on the Via di Salicotto. Additional filming took place at Piazza del Campo, including shots from the annual horserace “Palio di Siena”.
The foot chase (after Ms bodyguard Mitchell tried to free Mr. White from the hands of MI6) had been filmed on the roofs around Piazza del Campo, at Palazzo Pubblico and at the junction of Via Pantaneto and Via Magalotti.
Later on, Bond meets his contact Mathis at Talamone in southern Tuscany. Mathis’ home (which he received as compensation from MI6) is the luxury retreat Torre di Talamonaccio, a restored Medieval tower on the Tuscany coast.
AUSTRIA
Bond follows Mr. Greene to crash the Quantum meeting in Bregenz, an Austrian town at the eastern tip of Lake Constance. The modern opera house at the sea shore is the Seebühne Bregenz. The Bregenz street scenes had been filmed in the nearby village Feldkirch though.
PANAMA
Panama doubled for both Haiti and Bolivia in the movie. The harbor scenes in Port-au-Prince were filmed in the Caribbean city of Colon, where Bond first encounters Dominic Greene (Mathieu Almaric).
Later on, when Bond is in La Paz, this is actually Panama City. The “Andean Grand Hotel” is the Instituto Nacional de Cultura – the National Institute of Culture – on Plaza de Francia. Greene’s hip fundraiser party takes place at the derelict Club de Clases y Tropas.
CHILE
The “Bolivian” village is actually in northern Chile: Baquedano, in the Atacama Desert, about 50 miles east of Antofagasta. Additional scenes had been filmed in the ruins of Cobija, north of Antofagasta.
Greene’s desert hideout is the futuristic ESO observatory “Residencia of Paranal”.
GREAT BRITAIN
The MI6 headquarter is the Barbican Centre in the northeast of London. The Reform Club, also seen in Die Another Day, hosts the meeting between M and the minister. The London highrise flat of double agent Mitchell is the most northern one of the Water Gardens complex in Paddington. The Farnborough Airport doubles for the Bregenz Airport, from where Bond follows the trails of Greene to South America.
RUSSIA, HAITI & BOLIVIA
Bond briefly visits Port-au-Prince in Haiti, La Paz in Bolivia and Kazan in Russia at the end of the film. But filming didn’t took place in neither one of those cities. The Haitian scenes were filmed in Colon, La Paz was created in the heart of Panama City. And the Soviet looking snowy buildings of Kazan were the now demolished Bruneval Barracks in Aldershot, UK.
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