The Bourne Identity filming locations

Film locations: France; Czech Republic; Italy: Greece

The Bourne Identity filming location: Gare du Nord, Paris, France

The Bourne Identity filming location: Marie opts to stick with Jason Bourne: Gare du Nord, Paris

The first of the Bourne franchise trots around Europe, supposedly in France and Switzerland but most of the film was shot in Paris and around Prague in the Czech Republic.

The opening scene of amnesiac Jason Bourne (Matt Damon) rescued from the Mediterranean by a fishing crew was filmed, not out in the ocean, but with a boat ted to the harbour of Imperia, on the coast of northwest Italy in the Liguria region. The storm was added digitally.

Imperia consists of two historical districts – Porto Maurizio and Oneglia, which lie on either side of the River Impero. Recovering, but still with no memory of his past, it’s at the neighbouring harbour of Oneglia that Bourne is put ashore.

With only the details of a numbered Swiss bank account, Bourne heads to ‘Zurich’. In fact, the city in which he arrives is Prague, where he discovers fearsome combat skills when a couple of Swiss cops hassle him for sleeping on a park bench. The park is Prague’s Kampa Park on Kampa Island, alongside Certovka stream south of Charles Bridge.

The ‘US Embassy’, where Bourne first meets Marie (Franka Potente), was a defunct branch of HypoBank about to be redeveloped as a luxury hotel. With the promise of $20,000, Bourne persuades Marie to drive him to Paris. The snowy road along which they drive is in Cesky Sibir (Czech Siberia), outside Prague.

In Paris, Bourneís apartment “104 rue du Jardin” is on Avenue Kléber, near the Arc de Triomphe. The Treadstone safehouse, where Nicky (Julia Stiles) receives her instructions, is on Place du Marché Sainte Catherine. The mansion of dictator Wombosi, in which he's assassinated by The Professor (Clive Owen), is on Place des Etats-Unis.

Bourne leaves his precious red bag in the luggage lockers at the Gare du Nord and, outside, Marie takes the dangerous option of sticking with him. The Gare du Nord, one of the six large termini of the main line SNCF network, is supposedly the busiest station in Europe, serving the north of France, as well as international destinations including the United Kingdom, Belgium and The Netherlands

The ëFrenchí farmhouse, where the couple bring trouble to a family when they're targeted by The Professor, is in the village of Suchdol, not far from Ruzyne, Pragueís international airport.

Bourne’s alter ego, John Michael Kane, has been staying at the Hotel Regina, 2 Place des Pyramides, facing the Louvre and overlooking the Jardin des Tuileries. In the hotel’s grand lobby, Marie manages to get Kane’s details, allowing Jason Bourne to check out ‘Alliance Securite Maritime’ at the gigantic cube arch of La Defense.

The Bourne Identity filming location: Pont Neuf, Paris, France

The Bourne Identity filming location: Bourne sets up a meeting with Conklin: the Pont Neuf, Paris

The bridge on which Bourne sets up a meeting with Conklin (Chris Cooper) is Pont Neuf. He watches from the roof of the Samaritaine Building. After Treadstone is shut down, Bourne walks off along the Pont des Arts, alongside the Louvre.

The Bourne Identity filming location: Bourne walks away from Treadstone: Pont des Arts, Paris

Bourne finally tracks down Marie to the Greek island of Mykonos, where she’s running a scooter rental business at Sea Satin Market in Little Venice, beneath the famous windmills.