ePrivacy and GPDR Cookie Consent management by TermsFeed Privacy Generator Angels & Demons | The locations of the movie on Italy for Movies
cineturismo, location, cinema, turismo

Angels & Demons

Genre

Action film, thriller

Cast

Tom Hanks, Ewan McGregor, Ayelet Zurer, Stellan Skarsgård, Pierfrancesco Favino, Nikolaj Lie Kaas, Armin Mueller-Stahl, Norbert Weisser, Masasa Moyo, Arlo Hemphill, Gino Conforti, Victor Alfieri, Franklin Amobi, Curt Lowens, Bob Yerkes, Marco Fiorini, Ursula Brooks, Thure Lindhardt, Elya Baskin, David Pasquesi, Cosimo Fusco, Allen Dula

Directed by

Ron Howard

Angels & Demons

Genre

Action film, thriller

Cast

Tom Hanks, Ewan McGregor, Ayelet Zurer, Stellan Skarsgård, Pierfrancesco Favino, Nikolaj Lie Ka

Directed by

Ron Howard
Save
Share

Where it was filmed 'Angels & Demons'

Vatican City. The sudden death of the Pope has shaken the Catholic world. In a St. Peter’s square heaving with worshippers (recreated in California at the Hollywood Park racetrack in Inglewood, south-west of Los Angeles), funeral rites are being carried out. The conclave is about to start in the Sistine chapel (reconstructed at Sony Studios in Culver City).

Four cardinals are kidnapped before the beginning of the conclave by ancient secret society The Illuminati. Professor Langdon is urgently summoned to Rome to help solve the mystery behind their disappearance. A bird’s-eye view of Rome, panning over first the Colosseum and then the dome of St. Peter’s Basilica, heralds the arrival of the academic in the eternal city. angdon’s job is to find the ‘Path of Illumination’, a path connecting four symbolic places in which the four kidnapped ‘preferiti’ (the favourite cardinals to be elected Pope) might be sacrificed.

The first clue erroneously leads Langdon to the Pantheon, the oldest Catholic church in Rome and Raphael’s final resting place, and then to the Chigi chapel, which was once called the Chapel of Earth (the first element) in the Church of Santa Maria del Popolo. The obelisk with its pyramid-shaped tip in piazza del Popolo stands authoritatively in the centre of the piazza.

In a St. Peter’s square waiting to see white smoke, the second clue is related to the element of air, and our heroes find it near Pope Sixtus V’s Egyptian obelisk
There’s no time to stop though, and we soon head off to the Church of Santa Maria della Vittoria, whose most famous work, the Ecstasy of Saint Teresa by Bernini, symbolises fire. The fourth element, water, must be represented by a fountain, and the Path of Illumination leads us to piazza Navona (some filming actually took place in Rome, while some scenes were shot on sets reconstructed at Hollywood Park) in front of another work by Bernini, the fountain of the Four Rivers.

The race against time to find a bomb that threatens the safety of the Vatican leads our heroes to Castel Sant’Angelo. The characters cross ponte Sant'Angelo, adorned with statues of angels, and once inside Langdon unearths the passetto di Borgo, the old escape route that once connected the fortress to the Vatican palaces.

The race comes to an end in the necropolis under St. Peter’s Basilica, where the tomb of the first ever Pope lies, but the last plot twist takes place in the Basilica itself.

As well as the Sistine Chapel, the production team reconstructed the interiors of St. Peter’s Basilica, the Pantheon, Castel Sant’Angelo, the Church of Santa Maria del Popolo and Santa Maria della Vittoria, as well as the frescoes and fountains, more specifically Bernini’s fountain in piazza Navona, and Michelangelo and Bernini’s sculptures.

The Royal Palace of Caserta was used to film lots of the scenes set in the Vatican.

Where it was filmed 'Angels & Demons'

Vatican City. The sudden death of the Pope has shaken the Catholic world. In a St. Peter’s square heaving with worshippers (recreated in California at the Hollywood Park racetrack in Inglewood, south-west of Los Angeles), funeral rites are being carried out. The conclave is about to start in the Sistine chapel (reconstructed at Sony Studios in Culver City).

Four cardinals are kidnapped before the beginning of the conclave by ancient secret society The Illuminati. Professor Langdon is urgently summoned to Rome to help solve the mystery behind their disappearance. A bird’s-eye view of Rome, panning over first the Colosseum and then the dome of St. Peter’s Basilica, heralds the arrival of the academic in the eternal city. angdon’s job is to find the ‘Path of Illumination’, a path connecting four symbolic places in which the four kidnapped ‘preferiti’ (the favourite cardinals to be elected Pope) might be sacrificed.

The first clue erroneously leads Langdon to the Pantheon, the oldest Catholic church in Rome and Raphael’s final resting place, and then to the Chigi chapel, which was once called the Chapel of Earth (the first element) in the Church of Santa Maria del Popolo. The obelisk with its pyramid-shaped tip in piazza del Popolo stands authoritatively in the centre of the piazza.

In a St. Peter’s square waiting to see white smoke, the second clue is related to the element of air, and our heroes find it near Pope Sixtus V’s Egyptian obelisk
There’s no time to stop though, and we soon head off to the Church of Santa Maria della Vittoria, whose most famous work, the Ecstasy of Saint Teresa by Bernini, symbolises fire. The fourth element, water, must be represented by a fountain, and the Path of Illumination leads us to piazza Navona (some filming actually took place in Rome, while some scenes were shot on sets reconstructed at Hollywood Park) in front of another work by Bernini, the fountain of the Four Rivers.

The race against time to find a bomb that threatens the safety of the Vatican leads our heroes to Castel Sant’Angelo. The characters cross ponte Sant'Angelo, adorned with statues of angels, and once inside Langdon unearths the passetto di Borgo, the old escape route that once connected the fortress to the Vatican palaces.

The race comes to an end in the necropolis under St. Peter’s Basilica, where the tomb of the first ever Pope lies, but the last plot twist takes place in the Basilica itself.

As well as the Sistine Chapel, the production team reconstructed the interiors of St. Peter’s Basilica, the Pantheon, Castel Sant’Angelo, the Church of Santa Maria del Popolo and Santa Maria della Vittoria, as well as the frescoes and fountains, more specifically Bernini’s fountain in piazza Navona, and Michelangelo and Bernini’s sculptures.

The Royal Palace of Caserta was used to film lots of the scenes set in the Vatican.

Browse the gallery

Data sheet

Angels & Demons
Genre
Action film, thriller
Directed by
Ron Howard
Cast
Tom Hanks, Ewan McGregor, Ayelet Zurer, Stellan Skarsgård, Pierfrancesco Favino, Nikolaj Lie Kaas, Armin Mueller-Stahl, Norbert Weisser, Masasa Moyo, Arlo Hemphill, Gino Conforti, Victor Alfieri, Franklin Amobi, Curt Lowens, Bob Yerkes, Marco Fiorini, Ursula Brooks, Thure Lindhardt, Elya Baskin, David Pasquesi, Cosimo Fusco, Allen Dula
Country of production
USA
Year
2009
Production

Columbia Pictures, Imagine Entertainment, Sony Pictures Entertainment, Skylark Productions

Plot

During the conclave to elect a new Pope, professor of symbology Robert Langdon, a character created by writer Dan Brown, is enlisted by the Vatican to fight the secret society of the Illuminati, whose aim it is to destroy the Church.

The locations

Castel Sant'Angelo
Region: Lazio Type: Castle Territory: Historical centre
Lungotevere – Rome
Region: Lazio Type: River Territory: Historical centre, City
Pantheon – Roma
Region: Lazio Type: Temple Territory: Historical centre, City
Piazza del Popolo – Roma
Region: Lazio Type: Square Territory: Historical centre, City
Piazza Navona - Rome
Region: Lazio Type: Square Territory: Historical centre, City
Royal Palace of Caserta
Region: Campania Type: Palazzo Territory: City

Discover the works shot in the same places

All works
007 — Spectre
Spy film
Directed by: Sam Mendes
Bassifondi
Film drama
Directed by: Francesco Pividori
Book Club - The Next Chapter
Film comedy
Directed by: Bill Holderman
We All Loved Each Other So Much
FIlm comedy
Directed by: Ettore Scola
Call My Agent - Italy
Tv series - 6 episodes
Directed by: Luca Ribuoli
Caro diario (Dear Diary)
Film comedy
Directed by: Nanni Moretti
Come un gatto in tangenziale - Ritorno a Coccia di Morto
Film comedy
Directed by: Riccardo Milani
Conclave
Film thriller
Directed by: Edward Berger
Corro da te
Film comedy
Directed by: Riccardo Milani
Everything's Gonna Be Alright
Film drama
Directed by: Francesco Bruni
Double Soul
Film thriller
Directed by: Valerio Esposito
È arrivata la felicità
TV series – 24 episodes
Directed by: Riccardo Milani, Francesco Vicario
Ex – Amici come prima!
Film comedy
Directed by: Carlo Vanzina
Ghosts of Rome
Film comedy
Directed by: Antonio Pietrangeli
Fast X
Film action thriller
Directed by: Louis Leterrier
Forever Young
Film comedy
Directed by: Fausto Brizzi
Gran Turismo Sport
Racing game
Grand Tour. Viaggio in Italia
Docuseries - 6 episodes
The two Popes
Biographical film
Directed by: Fernando Meirelles
The First Day of My Life
Film drama
Directed by: Paolo Genovese
Il principe di Roma
Film comedy, period film
Directed by: Edoardo Falcone
A Brighter Tomorrow
Film comedy
Directed by: Nanni Moretti
The Talented Mr. Ripley
Film drama
Directed by: Anthony Minghella
I Am Santa Claus
Film comedy
Directed by: Edoardo Falcone
Kaos
Tv series - 8 episodes
The Feast
Film comedy
Directed by: Mimmo Calopresti
L'anima in pace
Film drama
Directed by: Ciro Formisano
The Empire
Film sci-fi
Directed by: Bruno Dumont
La dolce vita
Film drama
Directed by: Federico Fellini
The Great Beauty
Film drama
Directed by: Paolo Sorrentino
Bicycle Thieves
Film drama
Directed by: Vittorio De Sica
Breaking up in Rome
Film comedy
Directed by: Edoardo Leo
The Ignorant Angels
Tv series - 8 episodes
Directed by: Ferzan Özpetek
We Still Talk
Film drama
Directed by: Pupi Avati
They Call Me Jeeg
Film drama, action
Directed by: Gabriele Mainetti
The White Sheik
Film comedy
Directed by: Federico Fellini
Them Who?
Comedy film
Directed by: Francesco Micciché, Fabio Bonifacci
Love & Gelato
Film comedy
Directed by: Brandon Camp
Lovely Boy
Film drama
Directed by: Francesco Lettieri
Made in Italy
Film drama
Directed by: Luciano Ligabue
Eat Pray Love
Film drama
Directed by: Ryan Murphy
Mozzarella Stories
Film comedy
Directed by: Edoardo De Angelis
Muti
Film action thriller
Directed by: George Gallo, Francesco Cinquemani, Luca Giliberto
Noi siamo leggenda
Tv series - 12 episodes
Directed by: Carmine Elia
Non ci resta che il crimine - La serie
Tv series - 6 episodes
Directed by: Massimiliano Bruno, Alessio Maria Federici
Petra
Tv series – 2 seasons
Directed by: Maria Sole Tognazzi
Power of Rome
Documentary
Directed by: Giovanni Troilo
Prisma
Tv series - 8 episodes
Directed by: Ludovico Bessegato
Promises
Film drama
Directed by: Amanda Sthers
Raphael – The Lord of Arts
Documentary – Art
Directed by: Luca Viotto
Red Notice
Film action
Directed by: Rawson Marshall Thurber
Ripley
Tv series - 8 episodes
Directed by: Steven Zaillian
Ritorno al crimine
Film comedy
Directed by: Massimiliano Bruno
God Willing
Film comedy
Directed by: Edoardo Falcone
Dry
Film drama
Directed by: Paolo Virzì
Skam Italia
Tv series - 5 seasons
Directed by: Ludovico Bessegato, Tiziano Russo
Stanley Tucci: Searching for Italy
Tv serie - 2 seasons
Directed by: Satiyesh Manoharajah, Neil Ferguson, Chiara Messineo, Archie Powell, Chloë Avery
Star Wars: Episode 1 – The Phantom Menace
Action film, adventure, fantasy
Directed by: George Lucas
Star Wars: Episode 2 – Attack of the Clones
Action film, adventure, fantasy
Directed by: George Lucas
SuburrAEterna
Tv series - 8 episodes
Directed by: Ciro D’Emilio, Alessandro Tonda
Summertime
Tv series - 3 seasons
Directed by: Lorenzo Sportiello, Francesco Lagi
The Italian Recipe
Film sentimental
Directed by: Hou Zuxin
To Rome With Love
Film comedy
Directed by: Woody Allen
True Blue
Directed by: Filippo Barbagallo
All the Money in the World
Dramatic film, crime
Directed by: Ridley Scott
Twice Born
Film drama
Directed by: Sergio Castellitto
The desired war
Film comedy, drama
Directed by: Gianni Zanasi
Directed by: Niclas Bendixen