James Bond's Matera, through the locations of No Time to Die

Matera was the great Italian location of No Time to Die, the one with Daniel Craig and Léa Seydoux: most of the filming in Italy was done in the two Sassi and in the Civita, with the motorbike jump and the chase through its streets. It is all out on the street, so you can do it on your own and without a ticket, with the same walk through the Sassi and a few detours.

What was filmed here

• The Duomo square. At the top of the Civita, beside the cathedral. This is where Bond makes the motorbike jump in the chase. From the square's viewpoint you have the Sasso Barisano at your feet.
• Piazza San Giovanni. Here Bond, trapped, answers by spinning the car right round.
• The hotel balcony. The wooden terrace of the film's hotel was a set built for the shoot below one of the viewpoints over the Sassi.
• The cemetery. The cemetery scene was filmed partly on the hill of the rock church of the Madonna delle Vergini.

What you see today is the city as it is, with no sign of the shoot. The locations work because Matera hardly changes: the same stairs, the same arches and the same pale stone as in the film.

How to do the walk

Start at Piazza San Giovanni, in the upper town, and go down towards the Civita and the Duomo square. From there, follow the Sassi walk towards the Sasso Caveoso. It is two hours without going into anything; if you want to see a cave house or a rock church inside, add the Casa Grotta or the rock churches, which charge admission.

By car, the bridge of the Gravina in Puglia Aqueduct, already in Apulia, is the one from the most vertiginous chase: in the film it was moved to Matera with digital effects. The stop at the guard's hut, after the bridge, was filmed in the Botromagno archaeological park, in Gravina itself.