It’s in the crypt of the church (which, I’m sure I don’t need to tell you was recreated in the studio) that he discovers the first cardinal, his mouth crammed with soil. Although the main entrance to the piazza is from the via del Corso between the twin churches of Santa Maria in Montesanto and Santa Maria dei Miracoli, Langdon’s destination is Santa Maria del Popolo on the north side, which contains Bernini’s Habakkuk and the Angel in the Chigi Chapel. Langdon deduces that the first step – earth – leads north, to another location seen in Greenaway’s film, the Piazza del Popolo. It stood in for the ‘Vatican’ again in JJ Abrams' Mission: Impossible 3, and in 1970 was seen as the ‘Parisian’ palace of Louis XVIII ( Orson Welles) in Sergei Bondarchuk’s epic Waterloo, with Rod Steiger as Napoleon.Īngels And Demons location: the first cardinal: Piazza del Popolo, Rome The huge Baroque palace, built in 1752, for King Charles III of Naples to rival France’s Versailles, is open to visitors. The grandiose interior is the Reggia di Caserta (Royal Palace of Caserta), Piazza Carlo III, in Caserta, about 15 miles north of Naples. The ‘Sistine Chapel’ was, obviously, recreated in the studio (as were most of the Roman interiors), but if you saw Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace you might recognise the ‘Vatican’s’ marble staircases and corridors – they were seen as Queen Amidala’s ‘Theed Palace’ on ‘Naboo’. Built in 1929, in the Romanesque Revival style (it’s modelled after the Basilica of Sant'Ambrogio in Milan), the campus has been seen in numerous films. Despite the CGI background, it’s Royce Hall University of California, Los Angeles ( UCLA) on the city’s Westside.
Nor is it the real ‘Harvard’, where the Professor of Symbology (a post which seems to be filled by anyone able to complete the local paper’s backpage crossword) is approached by a Papal representative. Needless to say, that is not the real ‘Vatican’.
Angels And Demons location: Robert Langdon is approached at ‘Harvard’: Royce Hall, University of California, Los Angeles | Photograph: flickr / flockwood
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