
'Squinting at his surroundings he saw a plush Renaissance bedroom with Louis XVI furniture, hand-frescoed walls, and a colossal mahogany four-poster bed.' Take Note: Place Vendôme was built for the Sun King, Louis XIV, and the gilded face of Apollo with sun beams radiating from his head adorns the window balustrades. PLACE VENDôME: Chapter 1 begins here with an urgent, middle-of-the-night phone call that rouses Langdon, who is staying at the legendary Hotel Ritz on Harvard's tab. Spoiler Alert: If anyone still isn't aware of the best seller's plot, be warned that certain details are about to be revealed Paris, France | London, England | Roslin, Scotland : Register to play EuroStar's Quest for a chance at prices of up to $200,000.


: Dan Brown's publisher has set up two games: Da Vinci Web Quest and Uncover the Code, in which you decipher codes hidden in the book jacket. : The movie's official website offers downloadable video and soundtrack clips, content for cell phones, and merchandise for sale.ĭ: The tweed blazer-toting author's site has an excerpt from the book, snippets from positive reviews, video and radio clips, a reader's guide for book groups, a partial bibliography of sources Brown consulted, and answers to common questions. Its website lets you download an audio version of the book's Tour 1 for free. : Peter Caine is one of the masterminds behind the tour company Paris Walks, and he's written a highly detailed and informative pocket-size book, Walking the Da Vinci Code in Paris: Decoding the City and the Book. There's an interactive map with some sightseeing suggestions, links to their partners-Eurostar, Novotel Hotels, Gray Line, Paris Visions, City Rama-and the option to register for special offers. : A team effort from the tourism boards of Britain, Scotland and France, the site is beautifully designed, but light on information. 125 million dollars were spent on the film adaptationĦ0.5 million copies of the novel are in circulationħ.3 million people glimpsed the Mona Lisa up-close in 2005ġ18,151 visitors to Rosslyn Chapel in 2005, up from 37,199 in 2003ġ,000 abandoned copies of the novel have been found onboard trains by Eurostar staffģ00 crew members were present daily at the Louvre during the filming of the movieġ copyright infringement lawsuit filed against Dan Brown's publisher by the authors of The Holy Blood and The Holy Grail Judge Peter Smith embeds a "Smithy Code" within his ruling in favor of Brown
