A real place on screen
Verzasca Dam — Contra Dam
A 220-metre concrete arch dam turns an Alpine valley into a monumental engineered section. It is an infrastructure location rather than a conventional building, included for the architecture of its form and scale.
- Architect / attribution
- Giovanni Lombardi and engineering team
- Building chronology
- 1961–1965
- Place
- Vogorno, Ticino, Switzerland
The real building
barrage de Contra vu depuis la route du val Verzasca
Films at Verzasca Dam — Contra Dam
GoldenEye (1995)
On screen: The opening bungee jump
The Swiss dam stands in for the Soviet installation in the opening stunt. Its real engineering is visible beneath the fictional geography.
Filming evidence
Building sources
A screen appearance does not imply public access. Consult the venue for current visiting arrangements.