In June 1791 Louis XVI and his family fled the Tuileries Palace in Paris for the fortress of Montmédy, only to be stopped at Varennes-en-Argonne after being recognised at Sainte-Menehould.
This route marks the royal coach's stops from the palace to Varennes, the citadel it never reached, and the way back through Châlons to a silent Paris. Several stops are approximate, because the sources do not name exact buildings.
Japan's legendary prince Yamato Takeru rides east from Ise Grand Shrine, escapes a burning plain at Yaizu, crosses Ashigara Pass and meets his end on Mount Ibuki. His sword ends up at Atsuta Shrine in Nagoya.
The route follows the legend, told in the Kojiki and Nihon Shoki chronicles, through five places. Several are traditional identifications, so the pins mark shrines and mountains tied to the tale, not proven battlefields.
A short walk from the Rialto Bridge to Piazza San Marco packs in Shylock's Rialto, a clock tower from a Bond film, the basilica that holds Saint Mark, Galileo's telescope demonstration and Casanova's roof-top escape from the Doge's Palace.
Six stops lead from the Rialto to the Doge's Palace, each tied to a story: Shakespeare, Moonraker, the legend of Saint Mark, Galileo, Casanova and A Little Romance. The film links are screen fiction, not history.
The Easter Rising of April 1916 was fought across central Dublin, from the General Post Office on O'Connell Street to the Royal College of Surgeons on St Stephen's Green and the canal at Mount Street Bridge.
This route follows the week from the muster at Liberty Hall and the seizure of City Hall to the surrender from Moore Street and the executions at Kilmainham Gaol. Several stops can be visited today.
The Berlin Wall ran past the Brandenburg Gate, Checkpoint Charlie and Bernauer Straße, and much of that story can be walked today. It went up overnight on 13 August 1961 and stood until the border opened in November 1989.
This route follows the Wall from its first day to its afterlife: the gate it closed, the checkpoint where tanks faced each other, the station border hall, an escape tunnel, the memorial and the painted East Side Gallery.
The Salem witch trials of 1692 began in Salem Village (now Danvers), reached the Witch House and Proctor's Ledge in Salem, and are remembered today at the Rebecca Nurse Homestead and the Salem memorial. More than 200 people were accused, thirty were found guilty and nineteen were hanged.
This route follows the story from the Parris household and the Nurse farm to the magistrate's house, the execution site and the 1992 memorial park. The Parsonage stop is approximate and has no map pin.
Bonnie and Clyde's two-year run took them from Eastham prison farm in Texas through a Joplin shootout, the Red Crown Tourist Court in Missouri and Dexfield Park in Iowa, to a roadside ambush near Gibsland, Louisiana.
This route follows the real trail in order, from Clyde Barrow's prison years to the morning of 23 May 1934 and his burial in Dallas. Some spots are only approximately known, and each says so.
Billy the Kid's story runs through southeastern New Mexico: the street of Lincoln, where he fought in the Lincoln County War and escaped the gallows, the stone hut at Stinking Springs, the plaza at Mesilla, and Fort Sumner, where he was shot in 1881.
The route follows Billy from the ambush of Sheriff Brady in April 1878 to his death and burial in July 1881. Lincoln and Fort Sumner can still be visited; some exact spots, such as the saloon and the trial room, are not pinned.
Admiral Yi Sun-sin fought Japan's invasion fleets in 1592–1598 along Korea's south coast, from his base at Yeosu to Okpo, Hansan Island, the Myeongnyang Strait and the Noryang Strait, where he died in the last major battle.
The route follows five places in order: the headquarters, the first victory, the crane-wing trap, the strait where 13 ships faced a far larger fleet, and the final night. Several pins mark waters or harbours rather than exact battle spots.
The Medici ruled Florence from Palazzo Vecchio, Palazzo Medici Riccardi, the Uffizi and the Pitti Palace, and plotters struck at them in the Duomo in 1478. This route follows the family from Cosimo's cell in 1435 to Vasari's private corridor of 1564.
Seven stops, all in the old centre and almost all open to visitors, show how a banking family turned into a ducal court, and how they left offices, tombs and a museum behind.
Prince Charles Edward Stuart's 1745 rising began on the beach of Eriskay, raised its standard at Glenfinnan, won at Prestonpans and ended on Culloden Moor, after which the prince fled through Skye and Raasay.
The route follows the campaign from landing to flight in six stops across Scotland's west coast, the East Lothian coast, the area near Inverness and the islands of Skye and Raasay. Positions for the Skye crossing and for the battlefields are approximate, so check local signage before you go.
Mary, Queen of Scots was born at Linlithgow Palace in 1542 and beheaded at Fotheringhay Castle in 1587, with Holyroodhouse, Loch Leven and Carlisle along the way. Her life runs from a royal cradle to a prison and a scaffold.
The route follows seven places: her birthplace, the Edinburgh palace where Rizzio was murdered, the island prison she escaped, the battlefield at Langside, two English prisons and the site of her execution. Fotheringhay Castle was demolished, so only earthworks remain.
Hemingway's A Farewell to Arms follows American ambulance lieutenant Frederic Henry from Gorizia and the retreat from Caporetto to the Grand Hotel at Stresa and a mountain house above Montreux. The war, the retreat and the flight over Lake Maggiore are the backbone of the book.
The route follows Frederic's path from the Italian front to Switzerland. Most pins are approximate, since the novel names towns and rivers rather than buildings; the hotel in Stresa is the one exact stop.
Dan Brown's Inferno sends Langdon from the Palazzo Vecchio and Baptistery in Florence to St Mark's Basilica in Venice and the Hagia Sophia and Basilica Cistern in Istanbul, in a race to find a plague.
The route visits six real places in story order, from the Vasari Corridor to the cistern of 336 columns.
Netflix's Lupin is set across Paris, from the Louvre and the Pont des Arts to Place Vendôme, with a Normandy detour to the cliffs of Étretat. Assane Diop, a modern gentleman thief inspired by Arsène Lupin, uses real landmarks as his stage.
The route follows six filming locations: the Louvre, the Musée Nissim de Camondo, the Pont des Arts, the Luxembourg Gardens, Étretat and Place Vendôme. Exact spots in Étretat are not named by the sources.
The Italian Job (1969) is set in Turin, with the Great St Bernard Pass, Kilmainham Gaol in Dublin and the Nivolet Pass among its real filming places.
The story is a gold heist in traffic-jammed Turin. This route follows it from the Alps through London and Dublin to the Museo Egizio, Lingotto and the final bus on a mountain road. Some scenes were filmed far from where the story puts them.
La Escocia de «Braveheart» es en parte auténtica y en parte Irlanda: el pueblo de Wallace, Lanark, se construyó en Glen Nevis, pero York es el castillo de Trim, el puente de Stirling se montó en el Curragh y la corte del rey Eduardo I «Zanquilargo» es la abadía de Bective.
La ruta recorre siete localizaciones de rodaje en el orden de la historia, desde el valle de las Tierras Altas hasta los campos, lagos y ruinas irlandeses que hicieron las veces de batallas y castillos. La mayor parte del rodaje se trasladó a Irlanda con poca antelación, así que el mapa de la película se reparte entre dos países.
«Náufrago» deja varado a un técnico de FedEx en una isla del Pacífico que en realidad es Monuriki, en Fiyi, con un intento fallido de huida en balsa rodado en Namotu. Sus escenas de Memphis se inspiran en la verdadera sede de FedEx, y su encrucijada inicial y final está cerca de Canadian, Texas.
La ruta sigue a Chuck Noland desde una calle de Moscú junto a la plaza Roja y el centro de distribución de FedEx en Memphis hasta las dos islas de Fiyi, y de vuelta al Panhandle de Texas para la última escena. La isla nunca se nombra en la película, así que dos paradas son escenarios sustitutos.
«10 razones para odiarte» transcurre en el instituto Padua, en el área de Seattle, pero se rodó en Tacoma y Seattle en el verano de 1998: el Stadium High School y su Stadium Bowl, Kerry Park, el Troll de Fremont y Gas Works Park.
La ruta sigue el orden de la película, desde el horizonte de los créditos iniciales hasta la cita de paintball. La mayoría de las paradas son lugares públicos a los que todavía se puede entrar.
«Pulp Fiction», «Jackie Brown» y «Érase una vez en… Hollywood» se rodaron en torno a Los Ángeles, desde un restaurante de Hawthorne hasta Musso & Frank, en Hollywood Boulevard.
La ruta sigue las tres películas por orden de estreno: el restaurante y el local de boxeo de «Pulp Fiction», el centro comercial Del Amo y el club de striptease de «Jackie Brown», y luego Musso & Frank, la librería Larry Edmunds, el cine Bruin y el rancho de Simi Valley de «Érase una vez en… Hollywood». Varios lugares han desaparecido o han sido reconstruidos, como el Hawthorne Grill y el rancho Spahn original, y los marcadores señalan las localizaciones de rodaje.
Indiana Jones y el dial del destino (2023) se rodó en un viaducto ferroviario escocés, en las calles de Glasgow disfrazadas de Nueva York en 1969, en las calles de Fez haciendo de Tánger y en Sicilia, en torno a Siracusa, incluidos la Oreja de Dionisio y el castillo Maniace.
Seis paradas siguen la historia desde un tren de 1944 hasta el asedio de Siracusa en el 214 a. C. El rodaje comenzó en junio de 2021, y la tumba de Arquímedes se filmó en Pinewood y no en exteriores.
La misión de Bond en Japón se rodó en gran parte en exteriores: en el pabellón de sumo Kuramae Kokugikan y el Hotel New Otani de Tokio, en los muelles de Kobe, en el castillo de Himeji y en el volcán Shinmoedake, en Kagoshima. El rodaje duró de julio de 1966 a marzo de 1967, y la mayoría de los lugares son identificables.
La ruta sigue a Bond desde un torneo de sumo en Tokio hasta el pueblo pesquero de las ama y la base volcánica de Blofeld. Muchos de estos lugares aún se pueden ver, aunque el Kuramae Kokugikan fue demolido y el interior de la base de SPECTRE era un decorado de Pinewood.
Misión: Imposible – Protocolo fantasma transcurre en Budapest, Moscú, Dubái, Bombay y Seattle, pero sus dobles son la estación central de Praga y el castillo de Praga, el Burj Khalifa de Dubái y el centro de Vancouver.
Esta ruta sigue la historia desde el asesinato en la estación de Budapest hasta el atentado del Kremlin, la torre de Dubái y la tormenta de arena, la persecución de Bombay y el final en Seattle, y muestra dónde se rodó realmente cada escena.
El cuento de la criada se rodó en Toronto, Hamilton y Cambridge, en Ontario: la casa de los Waterford, el muro de los ahorcados en el Mill Race Park y el Jezabel del Royal York hacen de Gilead y de Boston.
La ruta sigue la primera temporada en orden: la casa de los Waterford, el Centro Rojo, el recuerdo de June en el Ripley's Aquarium, el muro, el puente de Main Street, el Grand Café, el metro de Lower Bay, las criadas en fila en la estación LIUNA y el banquete en el Royal York.
