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Top Hollywood holidays

By Frank Barrett, The Mail on Sunday

Last updated at 16:09 10 May 2006

Venice is the star of movies such as Don't Look Now

What's your favourite Hollywood holiday? Email your favourite film spots to [email protected] and we'll print the best responses below.

Visiting a location featured in your favourite film adds a unique twist to an otherwise ordinary holiday.

Here, the Mail on Sunday's Travel Editor Frank Barrett lists some of his favourite film-inspired holiday spots.

Don't Look Now: Venice Nic Roeg's masterpiece has three stars - Julie Christie, Donald Sutherland and Venice. Based on Daphne Du Maurier's short story, the film supremely captures the atmosphere of Venice in winter. Watch out for small people in red coats. Jean De Florette: Aubagne Aubagne was best known as the Foreign Legion's HQ until the films of Marcel Pagnol's novels Jean De Florette and Manon Des Sources, with Gerard Depardieu. Start in Aubagne, Pagnol's birthplace. Pagnol is buried in nearby La Treille, model for the town in Jean De Florette. The Third Man: Vienna Location steals the show - not bad considering the film stars Orson Welles and Joseph Cotten, was written by Graham Greene and directed by Carol Reed. Take the wonderful Third Man tour run by Brigitte Timmermann (www.thethirdman.net).

Casablanca found fame
in the Bogart film

Casablanca: Casablanca

Humphrey Bogart's Casablanca was an entirely Hollywood-based production - filmed on the Warner Brothers studio lot in Burbank (Burbank airport doubled for Casablanca airport). But the real Casablanca, in many places, is rather pleasingly like the film version - an interesting mixture of Thirties France and louche North Africa. The Sopranos: New Jersey It's going to take something pretty special for you to abandon the delights of Manhattan for the mean streets of the New Jersey suburbs on the other side of the Lincoln tunnel. The On Location tour, price £25, takes you to all the places you recognise from The Sopranos TV series - the Bada Bing club, Satriales and landmarks from the opening credits such as Pizzaland and the Muffler Man.

Reader comments

As far as movie holiday locations go, you can't beat Petra in Jordan, which is better known as the resting place of the Holy Grail in Indiana Jones And The Last Crusade. It has a haunting magic even without its cinema fame. Bob, Swindon