Where is the desert house in Spectre?

However, the desert hideout of baddie Franz Oberhauser (Christoph Waltz) had been built up in a crater-like mountain outside of Rissani in southern Morocco. It's one of the most spectacular Spectre movie locations and called Gara Medouar, we visited the place here.
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Is the house in the desert in Spectre real?

But that filming took place in the villa is a hoax, as we learned while in Marrakesh. Some real estate firms scattered the rumor to up the price. The film villa is just a set inspired by the real one, and was digitally put into the Spectre crater.
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Where is Blofeld's base in Spectre?

SPECTRE's “meteorite crater” (lair of the evil villain Blofeld, né Oberhauser) was actually filmed in an extinct volcano outside the Moroccan city of Erfoud named Gara Medouar.
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What locations was Spectre filmed in?

Filming Locations (153)
  • Rome, Lazio, Italy.
  • Mexico City, Mexico (Opening Day of the Dead sequence)
  • Sölden, Austria (Snow scenes)
  • Erfoud, Morocco (SPECTRE lair) (desert)
  • Ice Q Restaurant, Das Central Hotel, Auweg 3, Sölden, Austria (Hoffler Clinic)
  • Tangier, Morocco.
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Does the crater in Spectre exist?

Gara Medouar appeared again in the sequel The Mummy Returns in 2001. The exotic location then became the evil lair of the Bond villain Franz Oberhauser in the 2015 movie Spectre. Although Oberhauser describes his den as being located inside a meteorite crater, in reality Gara Medouar is an erosional crater.
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Daniel Craig - Léa Seydoux in Blofeld Lair | Color Corrected Scene | Spectre - 007



Is the Kartenhoff meteorite real?

The Kartenhoff is a fictional meteorite (I found few sources about the movie saying so, this is the most comprehensive one). It is not the oldest known to humans, and it didn't make the crater shown in the movie.
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What is the train in Spectre?

The Oriental Desert Express is a privately chartered tourist train offered between Oujda and Bouarfa, Morocco. It runs along a little-used railway line, and was featured in the 2015 film Spectre.
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Is the glass building in Spectre real?

Sölden, Austria: Ice Q

Ice Q, a modernist three-storey glass-and-steel restaurant perched on a snowy crag above the Austrian ski resort of Sölden, is likely to become Spectre's iconic location. This building doubles in Spectre as a private medical clinic and the lair of Bond's nemesis, Blofeld.
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Where is the snow scene in Spectre filmed?

According to Mashable, those snowy scenes were filmed in a small corner of a skiing resort in Austria. Specifically, the tiny village of Obertilliach, which can be found in the Austrian Tyrol, Mashable reported on Dec. 4, 2014.
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Is Blenheim Palace in Spectre?

Blenheim Palace is where they filmed James Bond escaping from the Spectre meeting. The actual meeting was filmed in Pinewood studios.
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How was Gara Medouar formed?

The wadi starts after the confluence of four ravines, which divide the higher ground into five plateaus; at this confluence is a great circle of rock, surrounded by the overhanging plateaus. There is no source of water.
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Who is the villain in Spectre?

Ernst Stavro Blofeld, born Franz Oberhauser, is the main antagonist of the Classic rebooted James Bond series, serving as the unseen overarching antagonist of the first three films Casino Royale, Quantum of Solace and Skyfall, the main antagonist of Spectre and one of the two main antagonists (alongside Lyutsifer Safin ...
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Where was Blofeld's lair?

Blofeld's Volcano Lair

But Mount Shinmoedake, the southern Japanese volcano that served as the exterior of SPECTRE's rocket base, closes out this list as arguably one of the most famous villain lairs in film.
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What building was used in Spectre?

City Hall Building London

The location was used in the latest James bond film 'Spectre' as the offices for C, set within a fictional tower opposite the decaying MI6 building on the River Thames.
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Was Spectre filmed in Tokyo?

Spectre was filmed in Rome in Italy, London in the United Kingdom, Mexico City in Mexico, Tangier in Morocco, and in Austria.
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Where is the ski lift in Spectre?

Gaislachkogl gondola

The state-of-the-art middle station of Gaislachkogl Mountain Gondola has become a part of the action movie as well. A couple of film scenes took place in the triple rope gondola on its way up to the peak.
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Where was the helicopter scene in Spectre filmed?

Spectre's Helicopter Scene

The movie begins with a long tracking shot through Mexico City's Day of the Dead parade.
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Where is the ski resort in Spectre?

One of the highest mountain roads in the Alps, a mountain lift station that looks like curved ribs of steel and a design restaurant in the shape of a giant ice cube: the ski resort of Sölden in the Ötztal valley of Tirol, Austria, provided a complete mix of everything they needed for one of the main action scenes in ...
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Is the spa in Spectre real?

The Hoffler Klinik is not a real clinic – but the luxury restaurant “Ice Q”. It is situated 3,048 meters above sea level at Gaislachkogel mountain and has a futurist glass look, iconic Bond set designer Ken Adams would be proud of.
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Where is the mountain top building in Spectre?

Appropriately named 007 Elements, the building is inside the summit of Gaislachkogl mountain in Sölden, Austria—10,007 feet above sea level. If you've seen Spectre, you'll recognize the location as the home of the Hoffler Klinik, where Bond first meets Dr. Madeleine Swann.
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Why did Bond go to Austria Spectre?

Bond locates White in Altaussee, Austria, where he is dying of thallium poisoning. He tells Bond to find and protect his daughter, psychiatrist Madeleine Swann, who will take him to L'Américain in order to locate Oberhauser.
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Is the Chicxulub crater visible?

The Chicxulub crater is not visible at the Earth's surface like the famous Meteor Crater of Arizona. There are, however, two surface expressions of the crater. Radar measurements captured from one of NASA's space shuttles detected a subtle depression in the sediments that bury the crater.
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Where is the crater that killed the dinosaurs?

The giant asteroid, believed to be the size of Mount Everest, smashed into the Earth at a point now known as the Chicxulub crater. The impact site sits buried beneath the ocean in the Gulf of Mexico – you can see the exact location on Google Maps at the co-ordinates 21.4,-89.516667.
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Where is the biggest crater on Earth?

1. The largest impact crater on Earth, the Vredefort crater in South Africa, is 99 miles (160 km) wide and was likely created about 2 billion years ago, according to NASA's Earth Observatory (opens in new tab).
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