This summer, Intelligence Online invites readers to explore the legendary sites of the French Riviera and follow in the footsteps of Britain's most famous fictitious spy: 007. Here we rediscover the eclectic interiors of the Rothschild villa at Cap Ferrat, a jewel of the French Riviera.
In a scene from Never Say Never Again (1983), James Bond (Sean Connery) and Domino Petachi (Kim Basinger) are 'guests' of Maximilian Largo at his fortress named Palmyra (IO, 30/07/24). They discover the sumptuous residence of a leading member of global criminal organisation SPECTRE. Largi has stolen two US nuclear warheads in order to hold NATO to ransom. But Palmyra's interior as shown in the film is no more in Eritrea, as a map in the movie suggests, than is its exterior. It is in fact the Villa