Bard, Valle d'Aosta

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Fort of Bard

This 19th centurty fortified complex was used as the "Hydra Research Facility in Avengers: Age of Ultron. In this scene, the Avengers are attempting to retrieve the mightily powerful Sceptre of Loki. Fort Bard is above the town of Bard, north of Turin in northwest Italy, and stands on the Baltea River guarding the entrance to the Aosta Valley and reopened in 2006 as the Museum of the Alps.

Aosta, Aosta

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Aosta

This town was used in Avengers: Age of Ultron as a 'Sokovian' town. The town of Aosta is about 20 miles northwest of Fort Bard, and is famed for its Roman ruins, which you can glimpse in the film, on Via Torino, east of Piazza Plouves.

Chittagong, Chittagong Division

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Raja Ship Breaking Yard

In Avengers: Age of Ultron, this shipping yard was used in a scene when Ultron tries to obtain more vibranium, the super-dooper metal from which Captain America’s shield is made. The Avengers head off to the African country of ‘Wakanda’ and the shipyard of Ulysses Klaue (Andy Serkis), where the precious material is stored in the bowels of a ship. The salvage yard is the toxic Chittagong Ship Breaking Yard in Bangladesh, on the coast north of Chittagong itself.

서울특별시, South Korea

outdoors

세빛둥둥섬

In the Avengers: Age of Ultron film, this location was used as the ‘U-Gin Genetics’ laboratory, which was run by Dr Cho (Claudia Kim) and used by Ultron in an attempt to upload himself into a synthetic body being created in. The facility, in Seoul, South Korea, is the Saebit Dungdungseom, a brand new (as in 2011) convention centre built on the largest of three an artificial islands on the Han River around Banpo Hangang Park.

Egham, England

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Royal Holloway College

This college was used in Avengers: Age of Ultron, during a scene when a disguised Thor contacts Dr Erik Selvig (Stellan Skarsgard) for some answers about his visions. The college previously appeared as the nursing home in Merchant-Ivory production Howards End, and is seen in all its extravagant Victorian Gothic glory in the wonderfully daft Basic Instinct 2: Risk Addiction.

Farnham, England

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Bourne Woods

These woods were used in the opening scenes of Avengers: Age of Ultron, during the attack on the Hydra Research Facility. The initial attack is launched via Hawley Woods, off Fernhill Road south of Blackwater in Hampshire, and a few miles south in the much-used Bourne Wood (used for the motorbike chase), near Farnham in Surrey – seen in Gladiator, War Horse, The Wolfman and Sherlock Holmes: A Game Of Shadows.

London, England

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Rivoli Ballroom

This ballroom was used in the filming of Avengers: Age of Ultron, during a scene where the Scarlet Witch confuses Steve Rogers (Chris Evans) so that he finds himself back in the 1940s with Peggy Carter (Hayley Atwell), in the scarlet splendour of the Rivoli Ballroom. Originally built as a picture palace in 1913, it’s the only intact 1950s ballroom in London. The Rivoli’s barrel-vaulted ceiling, plush red velvet gold-framed walls, crystal chandeliers and Chinese lanterns become the Krays' 'Esmeralda's Barn' nightclub in Brian Helgeland's Legend, with Tom Hardy as both Ron and Reggie, and were also seen in My Week With Marilyn, in the excellent (if little seen) romcom This Year’s Love and in David A Stewart’s turkey Honest. Its bar became the ‘East Berlin’ club where Brad Pitt stops off in Tony Scott’s Spy Game.