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

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

Villa Erba appears as the Night Fox residence.
Villa Erba appears as the Night Fox residence.

Warner Bros. Pictures · Scene image source

Filming evidence

Building sources

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