Architecture on screen · 2006
The Da Vinci Code filming locations
Museum courts and medieval religious spaces form a trail of cinematic secrets.
Directed by Ron Howard · 3 documented locations
Louvre Palace & Pyramid
Paris, France
Successive palace architects; I. M. Pei (pyramid)
Rosslyn Chapel
Roslin, Midlothian, United Kingdom
Medieval master masons; commissioned by William St Clair
Lincoln Cathedral
Lincoln, United Kingdom
Successive medieval master masons
Louvre Palace & Pyramid
On screen: The Louvre sequences
The museum’s palace courts and pyramid anchor the film’s Paris setting. The plot’s hidden meanings and secret burials are fiction.
- Architect / attribution
- Successive palace architects; I. M. Pei (pyramid)
- Building chronology
- Medieval origins; palace largely 16th–19th centuries; pyramid 1989
- Place
- Paris, France
Filming evidence
Rosslyn Chapel
On screen: The final chapel location
The chapel’s own account describes the filming. The underground spaces imagined by the story should not be mistaken for the chapel’s actual layout.
- Architect / attribution
- Medieval master masons; commissioned by William St Clair
- Building chronology
- Founded 1446
- Place
- Roslin, Midlothian, United Kingdom
Filming evidence
Lincoln Cathedral
On screen: Westminster Abbey stand-in
Lincoln supplied cathedral interiors for scenes represented as Westminster Abbey; its own filming history records the production.
- Architect / attribution
- Successive medieval master masons
- Building chronology
- Begun 1072; major Gothic rebuilding from 1192
- Place
- Lincoln, United Kingdom
Filming evidence
Filming does not imply public access. Many locations remain homes, workplaces or heritage sites; consult each venue before visiting.