Narrow lanes of white and pastel stucco open onto small squares, with a cathedral dome above the rooftops.
What Casco Antiguo looks like
Iron balconies hang over the lanes, above houses of four to five storeys. Most fronts are painted in pastel shades, and the flat roofs sit above the cornice line. The watchtower rises above the rooftops at the end of Calle Sacramento.
Most lanes are cobbled or stone-paved, and several balconies carry pots of red flowers. Near the San Lorenzo Mártir parish church, a plain plaster wall runs along an alley beside the brick bell tower.
Small squares open off the lanes. The has a white four-storey corner block with iron balconies facing its cobbles, and the ends in a church with twin bell towers at the head of a narrow street.
The seafront is a stone sea wall above breakwater blocks. follows the wall, with apartment blocks on one side and the rising behind them, its twin towers and golden dome above the rooftops.
lies on the western edge of the old town, below the , a low star-shaped fort. The stands on an islet reached by a causeway. It has a lighthouse and dates from 1706.
The is a 17th century bastion facing the sea. It hosts concerts now.
Shot in Casco Antiguo
Die Another Day (2002) dressed the seafront avenue as a Havana street for a scene with Bond. The Mercado Central on Plaza de la Libertad stood in for a Havana cigar factory. The roof terrace of the Parroquia de Santa Cruz was the factory roof where Bond meets Raoul, and the factory's interior was filmed in London. The Prime Video series Young Sherlock dressed as revolutionary Paris. Knight and Day sent its bull run down Calle Barrié, and Alatriste used La Caleta beach and the two castles as prisons.
Die Another Day, 2002
Avenida Campo del Sur
Played Havana, Cuba
A stone sea wall runs along one side of the avenue, with yellow apartment blocks along the other. The cathedral's twin towers and golden dome rise ahead. Street View
Die Another Day used the Cádiz seafront and the Mercado Central for Havana. Old Havana's narrow colonial streets and alleys run at the same scale as these lanes. A wide shot gives Cádiz away through the cathedral towers and the sea wall, so frame tight on the lanes and balconies. Try searching narrow colonial streets now.
The Rhythm Section turned Cádiz's Santa María quarter into Marseille, so its narrow streets have already stood in for a French port. Le Panier's narrow, winding lanes and old house facades are the closest match in the city. The cathedral dome and the sea wall are the parts of the skyline that give Cádiz away, so a Marseille frame has to keep them out. Try searching narrow winding lanes now.
