In 1958 Tom Ripley, a young New Yorker who lies easily, is paid by a rich shipbuilder to bring his son Dickie Greenleaf home from Italy. On the Bay of Naples Tom falls for Dickie's carefree life and for Dickie himself, and his envy slowly turns dangerous. Anthony Minghella directed it with Matt Damon, Jude Law and Gwyneth Paltrow, filming on Ischia and Procida, in Naples, Rome, Venice and Palermo.
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The Talented Mr. Ripley (1999) is Anthony Minghella's film of Patricia Highsmith's novel: Matt Damon plays Tom Ripley, a young New Yorker sent to Italy to bring home Dickie Greenleaf (Jude Law). Tom soon falls for Dickie's life. Dickie's village, Mongibello, does not exist: it was put together on two islands in the Bay of Naples. Start at Ischia Ponte, where Tom gets off the bus, then the Bagno Antonio beach and Dickie's house.
Procida is a short ferry ride away: Via San Rocco and Piazza dei Martiri look down on the harbour of Corricella. In Naples, the Teatro di San Carlo and the Galleria Principe di Napoli are a metro ride apart. In Rome, a day on foot covers Piazza di Spagna, Piazza Navona, Ponte Sant'Angelo, Piazza Mattei and the Capitoline Hill; Sanremo's jazz festival was filmed at Paradiso sul Mare in Anzio, an hour by train. In Venice, Marge arrives at Santa Lucia Station and meets Mr Greenleaf at Caffè Florian.
Ischia and Procida each fit in a day trip by ferry from Naples, but check the timetables, which change with the season. Dickie's house is private, and the Anzio casino is closed: both are seen from outside. The Martorana church in Palermo, which plays a Venetian church, is a separate trip by plane or night ferry.
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A real filming location. The seafront square of Ischia Ponte, with the Aragonese Castle on its rock just offshore, is part of Mongibello, the invented village where Dickie Greenleaf lives: Tom Ripley gets off the bus here on his first day.
Access · Public square, free. The castle has its own ticket and opening hours. Check before you go.
A real filming location. On this beach between Ischia Porto and Ischia Ponte, Tom first meets Dickie (Jude Law) and his girlfriend Marge Sherwood (Gwyneth Paltrow), pretending they were at Princeton together. The Aragonese Castle shows in the background.
Access · Beach club with paid sunbeds in season; the shore can be seen from the seafront. Check before you go.
A real filming location. This 15th-century palace is the house of Dickie and Marge in Mongibello. On its terrace Tom clumsily drops Dickie's jazz records, and from there they watch the statue of the Madonna carried in the village festival.
Access · Private home: see it only from outside. People live here: keep your voice down and don't ring the bells.
A real filming location. Procida, the small island next to Ischia, is the other half of Mongibello. Dickie rides his scooter along this street above the fishing harbour of Corricella to meet Silvana, a local girl he is secretly seeing, while Tom watches from further down.
Access · Narrow public street with traffic: walk with care.
A real filming location. This square at the top of Via San Rocco, by the church of Santa Maria delle Grazie, is Mongibello's main square: here Dickie refuses to go back to New York, and later Marge buys fruit from Silvana.
Access · Public square, always open.
A real filming location, standing in for an opera house in Rome. The red and gold hall of Naples' great opera house, one of the oldest in Europe, is where Tom, now living as Dickie, spends an evening at the opera.
Access · Guided tours and performances need a ticket. Check before you go.
A real filming location. In this 19th-century arcade with its glass and iron roof, Dickie collects the allowance his father sends him, and he and Tom pick up and send their letters.
Access · Public passage, mostly empty today. Check before you go.
A real filming location, standing in for a church in Venice. Peter Smith-Kingsley, an English musician who becomes Tom's close friend late in the story, rehearses the Stabat Mater with a choir in this Arab-Norman church covered in golden mosaics.
Access · Entrance fee; it is also a working church. Check opening hours before you go.
A real filming location. Freddie Miles (Philip Seymour Hoffman), Dickie's loud and suspicious friend, drives into the square in his convertible and joins Tom at a café opposite Bernini's Fountain of the Four Rivers.
Access · Public square. Café tables here are expensive. Check before you go.
A real filming location. Alone in Rome after Dickie's death, Tom wanders among the ancient statues of the Capitoline Museums and looks down on the Roman Forum.
Access · The square is free; the Capitoline Museums charge a fee. Check opening hours before you go.
A real filming location. Near the Spanish Steps, Tom meets Marge and Meredith Logue (Cate Blanchett), a rich young American who believes he is Dickie. The Dinelli café of the film was not real: a shop was dressed up as a café for the shoot.
Access · Public square. Sitting on the Spanish Steps is not allowed and can be fined. Check before you go.
A real filming location. Tom, still pretending to be Dickie, rides a horse-drawn carriage over the bridge with Meredith, the American who believes his lie, with Castel Sant'Angelo behind them.
Access · Public bridge, always open. Watch your bag in the crowds.
A real filming location. Tom's Rome apartment is on this small square with the Turtle Fountain, called 'Piazza Gioia' in the film. Freddie comes here looking for Dickie, and the visit ends in Tom's second murder.
Access · Public square, always open; the palaces around it are private. People live here: keep your voice down and don't ring the bells.
A real filming location, standing in for Sanremo on the Italian Riviera. Tom and Dickie go to a jazz festival in Sanremo, and it was filmed on Anzio's seafront around this 1920s seaside casino. The day after, out at sea in a small boat, Tom kills Dickie.
Access · The building is closed and in poor condition: see it from outside. Check before you go.
A real filming location. Marge arrives in Venice at this station, whose modern front opens straight onto the Grand Canal.
Access · Busy station, open every day.
A real filming location. In this 18th-century café in St Mark's Square, Herbert Greenleaf, Dickie's father, meets Tom and Marge, and Marge voices her suspicion that Tom killed Dickie.
Access · Table service and music cost extra. Check before you go.
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It is invented: the film made it from two islands near Naples, Ischia, with Ischia Ponte and its castle, and Procida, with Via San Rocco above the Corricella harbour.
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Palazzo Malcovati is a private home: see it only from outside.
People live there: keep your voice down.
Yes.
Caffè Florian in St Mark's Square is still open.
Table service and the music cost extra.
In Anzio, south of Rome: the seafront around the old casino Paradiso sul Mare.
The building is closed: see it from outside.
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London → the Bay of Naples and Amalfi Coast
Walk ~5 min
Leave Amalfi at 09:30 · about 59 min by car
Driving route in Maps →A night at the opera in 'Rome'
Drive ~12 min
Walk ~5 min
Dickie collects his allowance
Walk ~8 min
Walk ~5 min
Ferry: check the crossings and times
Tom meets Dickie and Marge on the beach
Drive ~12 min
Walk ~5 min
Tom arrives in Mongibello
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Martorana Church (Santa Maria dell'Ammiraglio), Palermo: too far for the trip on the Bay of Naples and Amalfi Coast. Its page says how to get there.
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Restaurant on the Marina Corricella harbour, below Piazza dei Martiri, a Talented Mr. Ripley location
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Via Marina di Corricella 29, 80079 Procida
Seafood restaurant at the causeway to the Aragonese Castle in Ischia Ponte, near Palazzo Malcovati
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Piazzale Aragonese 1, 80077 Ischia
Restaurant by the old pier of Ischia Ponte, a few steps from Palazzo Malcovati, a Talented Mr. Ripley location
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Via Luigi Mazzella 15, 80077 Ischia
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Tuscan cooking in Rome since 1934, around the corner from Via dei Condotti from House of Gucci
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Via Borgognona 11, 00187 Roma
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Piazza delle Cinque Scole 28, 00186 Roma
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