Where They Went

Angels & Demons (2009)

Directed by Ron Howard

With stolen antimatter hidden in the Vatican and four cardinals kidnapped, a Harvard symbologist and a CERN physicist race across Rome along an old Illuminati trail from the Pantheon to Castel Sant'Angelo.

  • Travel shown
  • On foot, bike, skis or swimming
  • Not shown on screen
  • Fictional place
  1. 1Antimatter lab
    CERN, Geneva
    ≈ 00:03:00
    Stated on screen

    Antimatter is created and a canister is stolen.

  2. 1Harvard swimming pool
    Cambridge, Massachusetts
    ≈ 00:06:00
    Inferred

    The Vatican's police come to ask Langdon for help.

  3. 2Swiss Guard HQ and conclave
    Vatican City
    ≈ 00:10:00
    Stated on screen

    Langdon and Vittoria learn of the threat and the kidnapped cardinals.

  4. 3Pantheon, Rome
    ≈ 00:28:00
    Stated on screen

    Langdon's first guess for the Altar of Earth turns out wrong.

  5. 4Chigi Chapel
    Santa Maria del Popolo, Rome
    ≈ 00:36:00
    Stated on screen

    They find the first branded cardinal dead.

  6. 5St Peter's Square, Vatican City
    ≈ 00:48:00
    Stated on screen
  7. 6Secret Archives
    Vatican City
    ≈ 00:58:00
    Stated on screen
  8. 7Santa Maria della Vittoria, Rome
    ≈ 01:10:00
    Stated on screen
  9. 8Fountain of the Four Rivers
    Piazza Navona, Rome
    ≈ 01:22:00
    Stated on screen
  10. 9Castel Sant'Angelo, Rome, Italy
    ≈ 01:32:00
    Stated on screen
  11. 10St Peter's and the sky above
    Vatican City
    ≈ 01:45:00
    Stated on screen

The journey in numbers

Distance travelled
7,299 km
Places
9
Countries
4
Stops
11
  • Plane: 6,585 km
  • Not shown: 703 km
  • Car: 11 km
  • On foot: 1.4 km

Distances are measured in a straight line between stops, so real road distances are longer.

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