The Venice of "Don't Look Now"

If like us you’re a bit of a movie fan, then this section is for you. “Don’t Look Now” is a 1973 British-Italian thriller directed by Nicolas Roeg, adapted from a short story by Daphne du Maurier. It was filmed at a variety of locations throughout Venice, showing a seedier, grittier side of the city.

Keen to get away from the glitz of the “must see” sites of Venice, we organized our routes around the city to include locations from the movie. This had the added bonus of taking us off-track to areas that we probably would not otherwise have visited.

Ponte di Scalzi

Our first location from “Don’t Look Now” was the Ristorante Roma, right next to the Ponte degli Scalzi (vaporetto stop Ferrovia).

Ristorante Roma

This restaurant is where Julie Christie and Donald Sutherland first meet the two psychic sisters early on in the film.

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