These pictures show the amazing scale replica of the Vatican which is being built for the prequel to the Da Vinci Code.
Film director Ron Howard has had the movie set created in order to film scenes for Angels and Demons after the Vatican banned filming in its grounds.
Scale model: Film director Ron Howard has had a portion of the Vatican rebuilt in order to film scenes for Angels and Demons
Stunning: The scale model features accurate details
The movie, which is based on Dan Brown's thriller, includes key episodes that take place in the Vatican and to churches in Rome - Santa Maria del Popolo and Santa Maria della Vittoria.
However officials would not allow filming for the prequel to take place in any church in Rome, describing the work as 'an offence against God'.
The Vatican fiercely condemned The Da Vinci Code novel and its film version, which starred Tom Hanks as the Harvard professor Robert Langdon and asked the faithful to boycott the film.
Movie set: Giant pillars have been created by film-makers to mimic the Vatican
Rome goes to Hollywood: The iconic religious building is recreated on set
The novel and film caused outrage among Catholics by suggesting that Jesus Christ married Mary Magdalene and had children.
Angles and Demons film-makers are using the marble halls and staircases of the former royal palace at Caserta, near Naples, to double for Vatican interiors.
However the production team are recreating the interiors of the Rome churches from which they are banned.
Angels and Demons is based on Dan Brown's novel which was published in 2000.
The plot features an elite known as the Illuminati trying to install their candidate as Pope and blow up the Vatican and introduces the character of Langdon, which will be again played by Tom Hanks.
The film also stars Ewan McGregor who will play Camerlengo Carlo Ventresca.
Thriller: Angels and Demons, the latest Dan Brown novel to be turned into a film, includes key episodes that take place in the Vatican and Rome's churches
Banned: The Vatican would not allow filming in its grounds.
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