Ripley

A real filming location. Atrani, a tiny village on the Amalfi Coast, plays the seaside town where Dickie Greenleaf has settled: he is the rich young American that Tom Ripley, a small-time New York con man, has been paid to bring home. The little square appears in the series, and the village post office, where Tom and Dickie collect their mail, was a garage in the tunnel under the church of San Salvatore de' Birecto, right on the square.

Access · Public square, always open. It gets crowded in summer. Check before you go.

A real filming location. This small beach below the village is where Dickie and his girlfriend Marge Sherwood, an American writing a book about the town, spend their days, and the series' beach scenes were filmed here. Tom finds them here soon after he arrives.

Access · Public beach, with a paid section with sunbeds in summer; small and very busy in August. Check before you go.

A real filming location. The old bus that carries Tom along the coast leaves him below this church, whose dome and bell tower stand on a rock over the sea. From there he has to climb a long flight of steps to reach Dickie's house, one of the best remembered images of the first episode.

Access · Working church: the outside can always be seen; for the inside, check before you go. The coast road has a narrow pavement, so mind the traffic.

A real filming location. Dickie, who likes to think of himself as a painter, takes Tom into this small church in old Naples to see Caravaggio's The Seven Works of Mercy (1607), which still hangs on its altar. Caravaggio, the brilliant and violent Baroque painter, becomes Tom's obsession for the rest of the series.

Access · Entrance fee for the church and its museum. Check opening hours before you go.

A real filming location, standing in for a church in Rome. In Rome Tom goes to San Luigi dei Francesi to see Caravaggio's paintings of the life of Saint Matthew: the outside is the real Roman church, but the chapel was filmed here in Naples, so in the series the paintings are in a chapel on the right instead of the left.

Access · Church and monumental complex with their own opening hours. Check before you go.

A real filming location. The hotel front at the top of the Spanish Steps plays the outside of the Hotel Excelsior, the grand hotel where Tom checks in as Dickie Greenleaf and lives on Dickie's money. The lobby and its staircase with the stone lions were filmed at another hotel, the Grand Hotel Plaza on Via del Corso.

Access · Working luxury hotel; the outside and the square are public. Check before you go.

A real filming location. Tom crosses this footbridge over the Tiber at night, between its angel statues, with Castel Sant'Angelo, the round fortress of the popes, lit up behind him.

Access · Public bridge, always open. Watch your bag in the crowds.

A real filming location. On the night of his second murder Tom drives through this great gate in the ancient city walls onto the Appian Way, the old Roman road, where he leaves the car with the body of Freddie Miles inside. Freddie is Dickie's friend, who had started to suspect Tom.

Access · The gate houses the Museo delle Mura, with its own opening hours. Parts of the Appia Antica are closed to cars on Sundays. Check before you go.

A real filming location. After leaving Freddie's body, Tom walks through the dark fields of this park, beside the arches of the Claudian aqueduct, and finds a taxi near the old farmhouse of Casale di Roma Vecchia.

Access · Public park, free. There is little shade, so bring water in summer. Check before you go.

A real filming location. These covered steps under an old Borgia family house open the last episode with a flashback to 1606: Caravaggio has killed a man in Rome, and the police find the body here. By now Tom is fascinated by the painter's life.

Access · Public stairway, always open; steep, and lit at night.

A real filming location, for the outside only. Tom comes to this French church near Piazza Navona to see Caravaggio's three paintings of Saint Matthew. The chapel scene itself was filmed in Naples, at Santa Maria la Nova; here the real paintings hang in the Contarelli Chapel, the last chapel on the left.

Access · Working church, free to enter; a coin-operated light shows the paintings. Check opening hours before you go.

A real filming location, standing in for Sanremo on the Italian Riviera. Tom and Dickie spend a few days in Sanremo, and there the story turns: out at sea in a small rented boat, Tom kills Dickie. The production filmed these scenes in Anzio, at the old pier below the ruins of Emperor Nero's villa, with the Capo d'Anzio lighthouse in view.

Access · Public port area with working boats. Check before you go.

A real filming location. In Palermo Tom visits this small oratory, covered in white stucco figures, to see Caravaggio's Nativity with Saints Francis and Lawrence, which in 1961 still hung over the altar. The real painting was stolen in October 1969 and has never been found: the series used a replica, and a copy hangs there today.

Access · Entrance fee. Check opening hours before you go.

A real filming location. In the last episodes Tom rents this 15th-century palace on the Grand Canal. Here he is questioned by Inspector Ravini, the Italian policeman investigating Freddie's death and Dickie's disappearance; the canopy bed in Tom's bedroom was already in the palace.

Access · Private palace, not open to visitors: see it from the water or from the opposite bank.

A real filming location. Near the end Tom has coffee in the square with Reeves Minot, a shady American contact played by John Malkovich, and the arches of Caffè Florian appear in the series.

Access · Public square. Cafés charge extra for table service and music. Check before you go.

A real filming location. This famous old hotel on the waterfront near St Mark's is where Herbert Greenleaf, Dickie's father, stays when he comes to Venice to find out what happened to his son.

Access · Working hotel; the outside is public. Check before you go.