Landmarks and Locations
Famous landmarks and sights appearing as the family tours England, France, West Germany, and Italy include:
- London's Tower Bridge
- Lambeth Bridge Roundabout (Clark drives the car into the inner ring and can't get out of the traffic)
- Buckingham Palace
- Heathrow International Airport
- Big Ben (which Clark repeatedly announces to the kids on every loop around the Lambeth Bridge roundabout)
- Palace of Westminster
- Stonehenge (which they accidentally knock down with their car, like dominoes)
- Paris' Left Bank
- Eiffel Tower
- Louvre museum
- Notre Dame de Paris cathedral
- Rome's Colosseum
- Spanish Steps
Other locations used in the movie include:
- Statue of Liberty (the torch of which their plane crashes into and knocks over)
- Notting Hill (where Clark runs over Eric Idle's character)
Scenes supposedly taking place in West Germany were actually shot in German-speaking part of Italy (Brixen).
Read more about this topic: National Lampoon's European Vacation
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“The lives of happy people are dense with their own doings—crowded, active, thick.... But the sorrowing are nomads, on a plain with few landmarks and no boundaries; sorrow’s horizons are vague and its demands are few.”
—Larry McMurtry (b. 1936)