A few real life places from Casino Royale

Generally considered one of Fleming's best Bond novels, Casino Royale is interestingly one of the least lacking in location detail.  As we have already discussed, Royale-les-Eaux is a fictional town and on the whole, Fleming appears to have written the book based on his own experiences without any of the detailed research that he would do for his later work.


I have tried searching for other locations that appear to be in the area around Royale such as the Dubernes, Les Noctambules and L'Auberge du Fuit Defendu without success.  Similarly, 450 Charing Cross Place in London does not exist and Chaffery's is a fictional Jamaican company. 

However, in an attempt to give his novel some additional authenticity, Fleming does mention a few real life places:


RCA Building at Rockefeller Center, New York City, United States

"Well, in the last few years I've killed two villains. The first was in New York - a Japanese cipher expert cracking our codes on the thirty-sixth floor of the RCA building in the Rockefeller centre, where the Japs had their consulate. I took a room on the fortieth floor of the next-door skyscraper and I could look across the street into his room and see him working. Then I got a colleague from our organization in New York and a couple of Remington thirty-thirty's with telescopic sights and silencers. We smuggled them up to my room and sat for days waiting for our chance. He shot at the man a second before me. His job was only to blast a hole through the windows so that I could shoot the Jap through it. They have tough windows at the Rockefeller centre to keep the noise out. It worked very well. As I expected, his bullet got deflected by the glass and went God knows where. But I shot immediately after him, through the hole he had made. I got the Jap in the mouth as he turned to gape at the broken window." Casino Royale, chapter 20

Dachau Displaced Persons Camp, Munich, Germany

Concentration Camp located near Munich in Germany where Le Chiffre was encountered as a displaced person in June 1945. 



Casino, Monte Carlo, Monaco

World famous casino in Monaco.  Mentioned as the place where Bond "sat in the Casino in Monte Carlo for two months before the war watching that Roumanian team work their stuff with the invisible ink and the dark glasses. He and the Deuxiéme bowled them out in the end and 007 turned in a million francs he had won at shemmy". 


Used as a location in the films Never Say Never Again and Goldeneye.



Château de Fontainebleau, near Paris, France

Château located near Paris and from 1945-1966, the headquarters of NATO's Allied Forces Central Europe. Felix Leiter is based here.



Daily Gleaner, Kingston, Jamaica 

Jamaica's newspaper of record, at the time based at 148–156 Harbour Street, Kingston.  Fawcett, the Picture Editor, is a representative of the Secret Service.



As ever, check out the Google map for these and over 850 other locations featured in the Bond novels.