Money Heist

This columned façade plays the Royal Mint. Only the outside was filmed here, the interiors were a studio set. You see it from the street.

Access · A working research institute: façade from the street only.

The Mint's rooftop scenes were shot here. The roof is closed to visitors, you see the building from outside.

Access · University campus: the grounds are open, the building is for students and staff.

From Part 3 this façade stands in for the Bank of Spain. The bank interiors were studio sets.

Access · Government offices: the façade is visible from the street.

The real Bank of Spain on Plaza de Cibeles is the gang's target from Part 3 onwards, but the building itself never appears on screen. The bank's façade in the series is the Ministry of Transport at Nuevos Ministerios, on the Paseo de la Castellana.

Access · Central bank: outside from the squares and streets around it.

The famous money rain over the crowd, filmed here on 19 January 2019 with fake notes.

Access · Public square, always open, very busy at weekends.

Marsella rides a bike down the grand avenue and drives the police crazy.

Access · Public street with heavy traffic: stay on the pavements.

Rooftop scenes in Part 3. You can go up too: the terrace is open with a ticket.

Access · Cultural centre: the rooftop terrace has a paid entrance, check the hours before going.

The Professor and Berlin argue about the plan on this staircase. It is a private club: see it from outside.

Access · Private members' club: the entrance is visible from the street.

In the Part 5 flashbacks Berlin sits with his wife Tatiana on the rooftop terrace of the hotel's Dani Brasserie, under the dome. The hotel fills the former Banco Español de Crédito building, recognisable by the sculpted elephants on its façade.

Access · Hotel: the lobby and the rooftop restaurant, Dani Brasserie, are open to non-guests who book a table.

In the final episodes the Professor tells his companions a secret at one of the café terraces on this square.

Access · Public square, always open; café terraces have tourist prices.

The money blimp passes Madrid's four skyscrapers. The towers are real, the blimp is a visual effect.

Access · Office towers: the area around them is public.

In the series it is a monastery in Italy where the gang hides. It is really this clifftop hermitage, about 1h45 from Madrid by car.

Access · Natural park, free: about 1 km on foot (15 minutes) from the car park.

In Part 3 flashbacks, Berlin (Andrés de Fonollosa, the Professor's older brother, who led the gang inside the Royal Mint) and the Professor are together in Florence, where the plan for the next heist takes shape. Scenes were shot around the cathedral square in early 2019, with thousands of fans watching.

Access · Public square, always open. The cathedral and its monuments have their own entry rules: check before you go.

The big terrace above Florence was the second spot used for the Part 3 flashbacks of Berlin and the Professor, the brothers who plan the gang's heists. It was filmed in the first days of 2019.

Access · Public square, always open and free; busy at sunset.

Part 3 opens here: after the Royal Mint heist, Tokyo (the robber who narrates the series) and Río (the youngest of the gang, her boyfriend) hide on a remote Caribbean island. It was filmed in Panama's Guna Yala archipelago, where the crew had to prepare an uninhabited island as their hideout.

Access · The islands are an indigenous Guna territory, visited on organised trips with local operators. Check current rules and fees before you go.

In Part 3, Tokyo leaves the island and meets the Professor (the mastermind behind the heists) in a temple in Thailand. Guides identify it as this huge carved wooden temple by the sea in Pattaya. In the story the Professor lives in hiding in the Philippines with Lisbon, the former police inspector who joined him.

Access · Paid entry. Check opening hours and ticket prices before you go.

In summer 2020 the crew came to Copenhagen to shoot scenes for Part 5, and Pedro Alonso, who plays Berlin, was seen filming on this colourful canal. The Danish scenes belong to Berlin's flashbacks; Bogotá and Marsella, two of the robbers, were also part of the shoot.

Access · Public quay, always open; the cafés along it are very busy in summer.

In Part 3 the Professor and Lisbon (Raquel Murillo, the police inspector who fell for him) direct the Bank of Spain heist from a motorhome hidden by an empty beach. Those scenes were filmed on the deserted Las Salinas beaches, in the Cabo de Gata natural park.

Access · Public beach in a natural park, free. Few services nearby: bring water and shade.

In Part 4 the Professor and Marsella (the quiet ex-soldier who helps him outside the bank) ride motorbikes across the La Mancha hills by these white windmills on Cerro Calderico.

Access · Open hillside, free to walk. Some mills open inside as small museums or shops: check before you go.