15th-century Gothic architecture, banquet halls draped in gold, and heavy velvet curtains that sprawl open to reveal the Venetian lagoon below, Hotel Danieli was every bit a Bond filming location before the franchise selected its gilded halls for Moonraker.
Long before contemporary audiences saw Venice as one of the defining backdrops for Daniel Craig’s debut feature, Roger Moore’s Bond chased a mad billionaire’s henchman through its iconic canals and brawled his way through a…

