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When looking for a key European city, the production selected Rome, the capital city of Italy, which impressed by its sense of power and scale. So then when the production wanted to send James Bond to one of Europe's great cities at night, they chose Rome, said director Sam Mendes, because of "the history and an atmosphere of darkness and foreboding, particularly if you're dealing with 1920s and 1930s 'fascist' architecture (Mendes used this word without looking up the actual meaning, and used an incorrect one, 'fascist' applies to a person or government, not an inanimate object). There is something dark and intimidating." Production designer Dennis Gassner says: "All cities are challenging, and Rome was no different. But what we wanted to transfer to the screen, was the sense of power you get from the architecture in that city." A key scene set in Rome, which was shot at Pinewood, is the S.P.E.C.T.R.E. meeting that introduces this movie's primary antagonist, Franz Oberhauser (Christoph Waltz). Gassner adds: "Again, when designing that scene, it was all about power; that was what we were looking for. The original location that we modelled our interior on, was the Palace of Caserta in Naples. There was a sense of scale that was massive, and we wanted to convey that during the S.P.E.C.T.R.E. meeting. We were able to do that on the soundstages that we had available. I think that we achieved what we needed, and it is a great entrance for Oberhauser. That's a key moment in the film."

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