It’s neatly back to Paris for the final sequence, which finds Langdon staying at the Ritz Paris, 15 Place Vendome. If you’re intrigued by all this mystery, you can book accommodation in more modern sections of the castle through the Landmark Trust, a preservation charity, established to rescue historic and architecturally interesting buildings from neglect and to give them new life by letting them out to visitors. And that’s not to mention the ghostly Hound of Roslin. Legend has it that the castle is home to a sleeping lady who will one day be awakened by a trumpet and reveal the whereabouts of a fabulous treasure. The Da Vinci Code film location: the final clue : Rosslyn Chapel, Roslin, Midlothian, ScotlandĪ few hundred yards south of the chapel stand the ruins of the 14th century Rosslyn Castle, where Langdon and Neveu part ways. Newton rests in the company of Charles Darwin, explorer David Livingstone, architect Sir Charles Barry, engineer Thomas Telford and the first Labour Prime Minister, Clement Attlee. Non-poets include Messiah composer George Frederic Handel, and actors David Garrick and Laurence Olivier (who directed and starred as Henry V in the 1944 film).īut if you’re a Da Vinci Code enthusiast, you’ll make a bee-line for the choir screen in the Nave, with its monument to Sir Isaac Newton, in an area known as Scientists Corner.
Poets since interred include John Dryden, Alfred Lord Tennyson, Robert Browning and John Masefield alongside writers Dr Samuel Johnson, Charles Dickens, Richard Brinsley Sheridan, Rudyard Kipling and Thomas Hardy. Nevertheless, after Edmund Spenser was laid to rest nearby in 1599, the two tombs launched a tradition. Geoffrey Chaucer, the first poet to be buried here, achieved this distinction not as author of The Canterbury Tales, but because he had been Clerk of Works to the Palace of Westminster. Poets' Corner, one of the Abbey’s best known features, can be found in the South Transept. The last monarch to be buried in the Abbey was George II, in 1760. Here also is the vault where Charles II, William III and Mary II and Queen Anne lie, although none of these has a monument. Since 1066, the coronation of every English monarch has been held here, and among the 3,000 people buried within its precincts are no fewer than seventeen monarchs, including St Edward the Confessor (who was king from 1042 to 1066), Edward I, Richard II, Henry V (the young hero of Agincourt immortalised in the Shakespeare play), Henry VII, Elizabeth I (another favourite for fictional treatment) and her half-sister Mary I. The oldest parts of the Abbey date from 1050, and in the vestibule of the Chapter House you can see the oldest door in Britain. Despite appearances, the this is not a cathedral, but a church – although owned by the royal family (which explains why it survived King Henry VIII’s ruthless assault on monastic buildings during the Reformation). Packed with history, though, you won’t want miss the Abbey’s awesome interior. The Da Vinci Code film location: Looking for the tomb of Sir Isaac Newton: Westminster Abbey, Westminster, London Under suspicion, Langdon and Sophie Neveu ( Audrey Tautou) apparently flee the crime scene across the Pont du Carrousel. The Da Vinci Code was not the first film to shoot inside the Louvre: Audrey Hepburn poses for a fashion shoot here in Funny Face Vanessa Redgrave is awed by its statues in biopic Isadora Jean Luc Godard’s anarchic trio scoot through the galleries in Bande a Part – a scene later recreated in Bernardo Bertolucci’s The Dreamers more reverentially, its artworks are admired in Les Amants du Pont Neuf and in Martin Scorsese’s The Age of Innocence.Īlthough the Louvre's courtyard briefly appears at the beginning of Wonder Woman, London's British Museum provides its interior for Patty Jenkins’s DC Universe movie.
What does Fache know? Visit after dark and walk among the reflecting pools to see the illuminated Pyramid at its most seductive.
IM Pei’s landmark glass Pyramid above the entrance – “a scar on the face of Paris” according to detective Bezu Fache ( Jean Reno) – was added in 1988, and the inverted Pyramid beneath finally added in 1993. The Da Vinci Code film location: Robert Langdon is summoned to the murder scene: The Pyramid, Louvre, Paris