Professor Jones
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I am from Venice, and maybe I can help, althought I must say it's really difficult to identify the exact spots where the scenes where shot.
1. Indy arrives with the boat. The scene is probably shot near the Church of the Madonna della Salute, or near "La Punta della Dogana". Both buildings are located on the extreme tip of the side of the bay of Canal Grande opposite to San Marco's Square. They're a little south of San Marco.
2. Indy steals the flower. They're probably on Fondamenta Gerardini, the street from which you reach Campo San Barnaba. The bridge Indy crosses is called "Ponte dei Pugni" (Bridge of Fists). It is called like that because there are the printing of four footsteps on it. In old times venecian people use to engage combat tournement there: they shoud put the back foot on the print and fight. The first that moved from the footstep-print lost the fight and was threw in the canal! Very funny. Once there was a bar under the bridge called "Bar ai Pugni". Now it has closed. The green tent you see behind Indy when he arrives in San Barnaba is the tent of a boat that sells fruit and garbage. It's still there...
3. The library. It is the San Barnaba Church, in campo San Barnaba. Now it's closed, you cannot see it inside. Anyway a few years ago it opened and it's interiors are very different from the library we see in the movie: the Church is actually very dark and very little. No libraries nor windows are there, nor cathacombs under it. A curiosity: there are no manholes in front of the Church, so I wonder how they could have created it! The bar actually exists.
4. The boat pursuit is rolled in Englad, not in Venice. Even the part in which Indy jumps on the boat seems to be a fake set. I cannot recognize any part of Venice in it.
5. The scene in which Indy brings the Brother of the Cruciform Sword, Kazim, to the dock is shot on Canal Grande, after the Ponte dell'Accademia (it's the wooden bridge you see on the background). The Church before the bridge is the Madonna della Salute Church, on Canal Grande (see n. 1). Anyway some frame seems to me the part of Giudecca.
6. The apartment. I cannot recognize in which part of venice is shot. Maybe it's just a studio set.
It would be very complicate to explain how to reach all these places.. you can use that site to find the directions to reach them: www.viamichelin.com
Finally I really cannot understand what canal is the one in which pass the gondola with the gondoliere singing as Indy kisses Elsa... Venice canals are all the same! Ah, Venice!
1. Indy arrives with the boat. The scene is probably shot near the Church of the Madonna della Salute, or near "La Punta della Dogana". Both buildings are located on the extreme tip of the side of the bay of Canal Grande opposite to San Marco's Square. They're a little south of San Marco.
2. Indy steals the flower. They're probably on Fondamenta Gerardini, the street from which you reach Campo San Barnaba. The bridge Indy crosses is called "Ponte dei Pugni" (Bridge of Fists). It is called like that because there are the printing of four footsteps on it. In old times venecian people use to engage combat tournement there: they shoud put the back foot on the print and fight. The first that moved from the footstep-print lost the fight and was threw in the canal! Very funny. Once there was a bar under the bridge called "Bar ai Pugni". Now it has closed. The green tent you see behind Indy when he arrives in San Barnaba is the tent of a boat that sells fruit and garbage. It's still there...
3. The library. It is the San Barnaba Church, in campo San Barnaba. Now it's closed, you cannot see it inside. Anyway a few years ago it opened and it's interiors are very different from the library we see in the movie: the Church is actually very dark and very little. No libraries nor windows are there, nor cathacombs under it. A curiosity: there are no manholes in front of the Church, so I wonder how they could have created it! The bar actually exists.
4. The boat pursuit is rolled in Englad, not in Venice. Even the part in which Indy jumps on the boat seems to be a fake set. I cannot recognize any part of Venice in it.
5. The scene in which Indy brings the Brother of the Cruciform Sword, Kazim, to the dock is shot on Canal Grande, after the Ponte dell'Accademia (it's the wooden bridge you see on the background). The Church before the bridge is the Madonna della Salute Church, on Canal Grande (see n. 1). Anyway some frame seems to me the part of Giudecca.
6. The apartment. I cannot recognize in which part of venice is shot. Maybe it's just a studio set.
It would be very complicate to explain how to reach all these places.. you can use that site to find the directions to reach them: www.viamichelin.com
Finally I really cannot understand what canal is the one in which pass the gondola with the gondoliere singing as Indy kisses Elsa... Venice canals are all the same! Ah, Venice!