Where Was The Bourne Identity Filmed? Paris, Prague and Europe

The Bourne Identity (2002) was filmed mostly in Paris, with further stops in Prague, the Italian port city of Imperia and the Greek island of Mykonos. This guide covers 17 filming locations for The Bourne Identity, from Matt Damon's Mini Cooper run down a flight of steps to the park bench where Jason Bourne wakes up with police standing over him. Each stop below has the scene shot there and a note on what you can actually visit. Exact pins are in the Go On Set app. Here is the stop-by-stop list.

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Paris Stairs

Paris Stairs is a narrow cobblestone lane in Belleville, in the 20th arrondissement, about 80 meters long with a short set of steps at one end. It is pedestrian only and lined with two-story buildings. In the film, Bourne drives Marie's Mini Cooper down the lane, tells her "we got a bump coming up," and takes the car down those steps to shake the men chasing them. You can walk it on foot, which is the only way in. It is a quiet residential lane, so keep it short.

Pont Neuf

Pont Neuf is the oldest standing bridge across the Seine, joining the tip of Île de la Cité to the banks on either side. Bourne comes here before his meeting with CIA Special Activities Division head Alexander Conklin (Chris Cooper). He scouts for the best vantage point and checks that Conklin has come alone. The bridge is open to everyone. The small park at the island's tip, Square du Vert-Galant, gives you the same view of the approach.

Gare du Nord

Gare du Nord sits in the 10th arrondissement and is the busiest railway station in Europe. Bourne and Marie arrive as part of their escape plan, and he stores his bag in a station locker. Then they notice that authorities have spotted Marie's car, and they have to leave fast. The station is a working transport hub, so you can enter the concourse freely, but it is crowded at rush hour.

Paris City Hall phone booth

The Hôtel de Ville, the seat of the Paris City Council since 1357, stands in the 4th arrondissement. Place de l'Hôtel de Ville is the square in front of it. Marie has just obtained phone records for Bourne's alias "John Michael Kane," and Bourne goes through the list of contacts in a phone booth here, using the public setting for anonymity. The square is open to walk through. Tours inside the building are by appointment only.

Place des Pyramides

Place des Pyramides is a public square in the 1st arrondissement, at the eastern end of the Tuileries Garden and outside the Louvre. Marie tells Bourne she got the Kane phone records from the hotel desk clerk without any elaborate tactics. The two then walk off across the square discussing their next move. The square is named after Napoleon's victory at the Battle of the Pyramids, and it is free to cross.

Hotel Regina

Hotel Regina is the Hotel Regina Louvre, in the 1st arrondissement overlooking the Tuileries Garden. Marie walks toward the hotel to scope out the lobby before Bourne goes in to retrieve Kane's hotel bill. It is a working hotel, so treat it as an exterior stop unless you are a guest.

Jason Bourne's Apartment

Jason Bourne's Apartment was shot in the 16th arrondissement, one of the twelve avenues that radiate from the Arc de Triomphe. The district is a quiet, affluent one, lined with Haussmannian buildings. Bourne finds his own name on the doorbell and is recognized by the building manager, which unsettles him more than any chase. He searches the apartment for clues, and the calm does not last. The buildings are residential, so view them from the pavement.

Wombosi's Residence

Wombosi's residence is the Musée du Cristal, the former private mansion of Marie-Laure de Noailles, in the Chaillot (Trocadéro) district. On screen it is the exterior of the home of Nykwanna Wombosi, a deposed Nigerian dictator who threatens the CIA by exposing U.S. involvement in Africa. Bourne's botched attempt to kill Wombosi on his yacht is what leaves him shot and amnesiac. The building is a Baccarat crystal museum with a shop and a restaurant upstairs, so you can go inside as a visitor.

Alliance Securite Maritime at the Grande Arche

Grande Arche de la Défense stands in the La Défense business district in Puteaux, just west of Paris. Following a lead from the Kane phone records, Bourne reaches the headquarters of Alliance Securite Maritime and walks through the enormous structure. It is part of the historical axis that runs from the Louvre to the modern business district, and the surrounding plazas are open to walk.

Conklin's Assassination

Rue de Jarente is a short one-block street in the 4th arrondissement, in the Marais area near Place des Vosges. Treadstone operative Manheim (Russell Levy) returns to his car after killing Alexander Conklin (Chris Cooper) on a dark Paris street near the Treadstone safehouse. The street is lined with boutiques, galleries and kosher restaurants, so it looks very different by day.

Pont des Arts

Pont des Arts is a pedestrian bridge that links the Institut de France on the Left Bank to the Louvre's central square on the Right Bank. Bourne walks away from the Treadstone site and crosses it at night before vanishing. The current bridge replaced the original in the 1980s and has seven arches instead of nine, so it lines up with neighboring Pont Neuf. It is open at all hours.

Marie's Mini Cooper Arrival

The riverside quay here runs through the Latin Quarter, across the 5th and 6th arrondissements, with views toward the Seine and Île Saint-Louis. It appears as Quai de la Tournelle. Marie parks her Mini Cooper in the early morning light, having just accepted Bourne's offer of $20,000 to drive him to Paris. The embankment is a public riverside walk, and the Latin Quarter's bookshops are close by.

Swiss Park

Swiss Park was filmed on Kampa Island in Prague, a strip of land between the Vltava River and its side branch, the Čertovka. Bourne, disoriented and exhausted, is asleep on a park bench when two Swiss police officers demand his ID. His Treadstone training takes over: he speaks fluent German and fights them off, startling himself as much as the officers. Kampa is a public park with cobbled lanes and the 15th-century Grand Priory Mill wheel.

Zurich Street

Zurich Street is actually a Prague street, near the main train station and the State Opera. After leaving a Swiss bank with a shoulder bag of money and passports, Bourne notices police officers seeming to follow him along the pavement and grows alert. The area is an ordinary city street, so it is a quick look rather than a destination.

Eamon's Farm

Eamon's Farm is the Trojan Mill (Trojanův mlýn) in Suchdol, on the edge of Prague, about a 15-minute drive from the center. It sits in a nature conservation area and has a historic hall, a garden and a pond. Here Bourne rigs Eamon's (Tim Dutton) hunting shotgun and a propane tank to cause an explosion, trying to hide his position from "The Professor" (Clive Owen). The mill has hosted filming, camping and events since 2005. It is a working venue, so check access before you go.

Italian Port

Italian Port is Porto di Oneglia, an active fishing harbor in Imperia, on the Liguria coast of northern Italy. Fishermen bring in a wounded Bourne, found floating at sea with bullet wounds. He has no memory, a few dollars and a Swiss bank account number implanted under his skin. It is a working harbor, so expect boats and nets rather than a film set.

Sea Satin Market

Sea Satin Market is on the coast of Mykonos, in Greece's South Aegean. Marie stands outside her scooter rental shop and watches customers ride away, while Bourne is nearby, trying to find her after their separation. The seaside restaurant that stood here is no longer open, so this is a coastline stop only.

How to plan the visit

Central Paris holds most of the stops: the Louvre area (Place des Pyramides, Hotel Regina, Pont des Arts), the Seine (Pont Neuf, the Latin Quarter quay) and the 4th arrondissement.
Further out in Paris are Gare du Nord (10th arrondissement), Belleville (the stairs), the 16th arrondissement, Chaillot and La Défense, so group them by metro or RER line.
Prague covers Kampa Island, the station area and the Trojan Mill in Suchdol.
Imperia and Mykonos are separate trips, so plan them as their own days or holidays.
Many stops are public bridges, plazas and quays, but the apartment, the hotel, the mill and the mansion-museum are private or working properties. View them from outside, keep voices down in residential lanes and respect residents.
Exact map pins are in the Go On Set app.

Quick answers

Where was The Bourne Identity filmed?

Mainly in Paris, with scenes in Prague, Imperia in Italy and Mykonos in Greece.

How many filming locations does The Bourne Identity have?

This guide covers 17: twelve in Paris, three in Prague and the Suchdol area, one in Imperia and one in Mykonos.

Where was the Mini Cooper stair scene filmed?

In Belleville, in the 20th arrondissement of Paris, on a narrow cobblestone lane with a short flight of steps at one end.

Can you visit The Bourne Identity filming locations?

Yes, for the public ones: bridges, squares, quays and Kampa Island. The hotel, the apartment, the Trojan Mill and the Musée du Cristal are best seen from outside, or as a normal visitor where open.