‘No Time to Die’ in Matera and Gravina in Puglia, Italy. Part 2: Cemetery

12 Sunday Apr 2026

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After a night spent with Madeleine Swann (Léa Seydoux) in Matera (‘No Time to Die’ in Matera, Italy. Part 1: Arrival), James Bond (Daniel Craig) set out at dawn for the cemetery. He crossed the stone viaduct and headed towards a small stone building to ask about the location of Vesper’s tomb. He was taken there by cemetery attendant (Pio Amato).

In the film it is supposed to be in Sassi do Matera, but in reality there is no such viaduct there. This film sequence was shot at the Ponte Acquedotto Madonna della Stella in Gravina in Puglia, about 25 km northeast of Matera. This bridge connects the town Gravina in Puglia with the archaeological park of Botromagno in Gravina (Parco Archeologico di Botromagno).

*The Ponte Acquedotto Madonna della Stella in Gravina in Puglia.*

To give the viewer the impression that it was the same location, the Gravina in Puglia viaduct was computer-added to the shots from Matera, and a digitally added panorama of Sassi di Matera appeared in the background of the shots with the viaduct.

On the other side of the bridge there is the archaeological park of Botromagno in Gravina. On the rocky ground, several tombs and the small stone house were built for the film.

Daniel Craig was seen on a film set in the archaeological park of Botromagno in Gravina on September 20th 2019.

The scene at the Vesper’s tomb was filmed a few days later on a plateau separated from the Sassi di Matera by a rocky ravine at the bottom of which flows the Torrente Gravina river. The plateau is located within the Chiese Rupestri del Materano (della Murgia Materana) Archaeological Park. The meadow where the Vesper’s tomb and several others in its immediate vicinity were built for the film is located near Madonna delle Vergini church (see in the gallery below the article).

Now there are no traces of the film set there, only grass. It is worth going there because of the beautiful view of the ravine and Sassi di Matera, and above all to visit the prehistoric caves.

After the explosions, James Bond ran towards the hotel. He passed a stone house abandoned by a cemetery assistant and ran onto a viaduct. The entire sequence after the explosion, just like the one before, was filmed in Gravina in Puglia.

Halfway across the viaduct, he stopped and glared at the cemetery attendant. At the same moment, bandits in a Maserati Quattroporte drove onto the viaduct from the opposite side and shot at him. A moment later, Primo (Dali Benssalah) joined them on the Triumph Scrambler 1200 XE.

Bond avoided being run over by a car by hiding behind a stone wall. There are stone pillars on the viaduct (see the photo below), but they are too small for a person to fit behind them. They had to be added for the film production, just like the ropes along the barrier that 007 used to jump from the viaduct.

Bond jumped off the viaduct and then ran through the corridors in the stone tunnels. The place where he went outside was filmed in Sassi di Matera.

While filming in Gravina in Puglia, Daniel Craig stayed at the B&B Sul Ponte, which is located a few steps from the Ponte Acquedotto Madonna della Stella.

Go to LOCATIONS GALLERY – ‘NO TIME TO DIE’ to see locations photos compared with movie scenes.

More photos from Gravina in Puglia and Matera:

‘No Time to Die’ in Matera, Italy. Part 1: Arrival

04 Saturday Jan 2025

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After an evening swim in the sea James Bond (Daniel Craig) and Madeleine Swann (Lea Seydoux) in Aston Martin DB5 took the scenic road at the seaside. They drove out of the tunnel straight onto Sassi di Matera that is a historic part of the city of Matera.

*Sassi di Matera by night. View from Via D’Addozio at Convent of Saint Agostino.*

The scenic road where they entered the tunnel was filmed at the Tyrrhenian Sea, about 200 km from Matera (read more in: Scenic road at the Tyrrhenian Sea in ‘No Time to Die’). The exit from the tunnel was filmed at Via D’Addozio in Sassi di Matera.

The end of the tunnel was built just for filming on the street Via D’Addozio next to Convent of Saint Agostino.

*Exact location of the fake tunnel. Via D’Addozio next to Convent of Saint Agostino Sassi di Matera. The tunnel was built above that part of the street.*

Aston Martin db5 drove out of the tunnel straight onto a viewpoint overlooking the city. You can notice in the film that the barrier at the viewpoint was covered so it looked like a stone wall.

*Viewpoint at Via D’Addozio next to the Convent of Saint Agostino Sassi di Matera.*

Standing at the viewpoint you can see the difference between the real view and the one shown in the movie. There was some CGI used to create it. In the film you can see a stone bridge against the background of the hills to the left of the city. The bridge was filmed in Gravina in Puglia and pasted into the view of Sassi di Matera.

*View from Via D’Addozio at Sassi di Matera.*

James Bond parked the car in the city center. He and Madeleine Swann walked slowly up the stairs to the hotel.

The scene where Bond and Madeleine got out of the car was filmed at Via Bruno Buozzi at the intersection with Rione Pianelle, just a few steps from Piazza San Pietro Caveoso.

*Via Bruno Buozzi at the intersection with Rione Pianelle in Sassi di Matera.*

The next scene where the couple was walking to the hotel was filmed at via Muro.

At night Madeleine Swann went out onto the hotel balcony.

For that scene part of the hotel including front wall and the balcony was built at Belvedere di Piazza Giovanni Pascoli. It is one of the most popular viewpoints in Sassi di Matera. If you stand there, you will see exactly the same view as Madeleine.

*View from Belvedere di Piazza Giovanni Pascoli.*

Fake hotel room was built on scaffolding so that it was at the level of the square Piazzetta Pascoli. If you look down from the viewpoint, you will see the place where the scaffolding was set up.