![]() ![]() ![]() ‘Sycamore Grove’, the beachfront resort where the younger members of the rival families hang out, and where the killing of Mercutio ( Harold Perrineau) triggers off the tragedy, is Boca del Rio, Veracruz, on the Gulf of Mexico, about 200 miles east of Mexico City. It now houses the National History Museum. Built over the period 1780 to 1840, this was the summer house of Mexican presidents until 1940. The Capulet’s family mansion, where Romeo ( Leonardo DiCaprio) first glimpses Juliet ( Claire Danes) is Castillo de Chapultepec ( Chapultepec Palace) in Chapultepec Park, Mexico City. ![]() On the opposite corner, the Banorte Bank tower became the 'Montague' HQ. The Ángel de la Independencia monument towering above the roundabout on Paseo de la Reforma is digitally replaced with that enormous statue of Christ.Ĭheekily, the Sheraton Mexico City Maria Isabel Hotel, Paseo de la Reforma 325, is rebranded as the 'Capulet' HQ tower block. The aerial shot of ‘Verona’ is the Zona Rosa business and shopping district of Mexico City. Baz Luhrmann’s brashly imaginative and hugely successful reinvention of the Shakespeare play sets the action in ‘Verona Beach’, seemingly in ‘Miami, but was made at the famous Churubusco Studios in Mexico City. ![]()
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