A real place on screen
Villa Erba
A lakeside villa combines a substantial historic house with terraces, a park and ceremonial rooms. Its architecture evokes an established private world, a useful contrast to the mobile outsiders of a heist story.
- Architect / attribution
- Angelo Savoldi and Giovanni Battista Borsani
- Building chronology
- 1894–1898
- Place
- Cernobbio, Lake Como, Italy
The real building

Villa Erba, lago di Como
Films at Villa Erba
Ocean’s Twelve (2004)
On screen: François Toulour’s mansion
The real villa is in Cernobbio, not the town of Bellagio. It becomes the Night Fox’s home in a story assembled from several European locations.
In the film
Movie frames and production stills are shown separately from photographs of the real building. Film and image credits remain with their respective owners.
Movie frame

Warner Bros. Pictures · Scene image source
Filming evidence
Building sources
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