Campo San Barnaba - "Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade" - Venice
N 45° 25.980 E 012° 19.500
33T E 290764 N 5034534
In the second part of the movie Indiana Jones travels to Venice, where he traces clues about the Holy Grail in Library of San Barnaba. The Library is real object - The Church of San Barnaba at Campo San Barnaba...
Waymark Code: WM7CKX
Location: Veneto, Italy
Date Posted: 10/05/2009
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The search for the Holy Grail takes Indy to Venice, where he finds a clue in the Library of San Barnaba at Campo San Barnaba in the laidback Dorsoduro district. But in the reality Library is Neoclassical Church of San Barnaba. If you want to see the real interior, the 1749 church is open daily from 7.30 am to noon and 4.30 pm to 7 pm. Incidentally, Campo San Barnaba is the spot where Katherine Hepburn fell into the canal in David Lean's Summer Madness. As Steven Spielberg is such a Lean fan, this hardly seems to be coincidence...
The given coordinates will lead you in the middle of the Campo San Barnaba with monumental building of the Church of San Barnaba - here were Library exterior scenes taken...
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