AUDREY HEPBURN

Audrey was born in a handsome townhouse in the leafy Ixelles district of Brussels on 4 May 1929, and lived in the city until she was five. The building is a private residence today, but a golden plaque marks it as her birthplace, and a nearby mural pays tribute to the neighbourhood's most elegant daughter.

Through the hardest years of the war the family lived in the small town of Velp, just outside Arnhem, at a house on Rosendaalselaan now marked in her memory. It is a private home, so this is a respectful pause on the pavement, but standing here brings the reality of her childhood into sharp and moving focus.

To understand the war that engulfed Audrey's childhood, visit this superb museum in nearby Oosterbeek, housed in a former hotel that served as a British headquarters during the 1944 Battle of Arnhem. Its immersive galleries tell the story of Operation Market Garden that raged around her family home.

The rambling eighteenth-century farmhouse above Tolochenaz was Audrey's sanctuary for the last thirty years of her life, the place she gardened, raised her sons and retreated from the world. It remains a private home and cannot be visited or booked, but it is worth knowing the story behind the walls of one of the most beautiful houses a movie star ever called home.

In the centre of her adopted village, a pretty square has been named in her honour, complete with a bronze bust and memorial plaques dedicated to the actress. It is the warmest possible tribute from the community that gave her the peace she craved.

Audrey was laid to rest here in 1993, in a peaceful and unassuming plot just across from the local church. There are no red ropes and no crowds, only a simple stone in a quiet churchyard, exactly as she would have wished. Please visit with the respect the setting deserves.

Audrey adored the neighbouring lakeside town of Morges, wandering its charming, pedestrian-friendly streets and shopping for fresh produce at the market that still runs along the Grand-Rue. Time your visit for a market morning and buy your fruit where she bought hers, in one of the prettiest small towns on Lake Geneva.

It was in this historic building that Audrey married her second husband, the Italian psychiatrist Andrea Dotti, in 1969. A handsome civic landmark in the heart of town, and a quiet piece of her private history.

This small museum in Morges regularly stages temporary summer exhibitions celebrating Audrey's life, films and inimitable style. Check ahead for what is on, as the shows change from year to year.

Nestled high in the Engadine Alps, this fairy-tale palace was Audrey's favourite Swiss ski retreat, all turrets, fur throws and firelit grandeur above the frozen lake. It remains one of the great winter hotels of the world, and the last word in Alpine glamour.

This historic resort on its own mountain shelf above Lake Lucerne holds deep personal significance: it was in the Bürgenstock chapel that Audrey married the actor Mel Ferrer in 1954. Recently and lavishly restored, with one of the most celebrated cliff-edge spas in Europe, it makes a spectacular and romantic base.

Audrey's connection to the legendary hotel on Place Vendôme runs through her whole career. She stayed in its opulent suites during promotional visits and used them to prepare for premieres, most famously dressing in a Givenchy gown before the 1964 Paris debut of My Fair Lady. The Ritz also appears in her filmography, from a press conference for Sabrina to its starring turn as the grand hotel in Funny Face. To take a drink at the Bar Hemingway is to step straight into her Paris.

If the Ritz was for premieres, the Raphael was for real life. This intimate, family-run hotel near the Arc de Triomphe was Audrey's true home away from home during her Paris shoots, and she loved it for its baroque charm and refined Chinese motifs. Here she kept her morning rituals: chocolat chaud and madeleines on the rooftop terrace, and games of chess on the giant board with her co-stars. Book the rooftop for a drink at dusk and the whole city unfolds beneath you.

The world's greatest museum gave Audrey her most breathtaking screen moment. In Funny Face, in a flowing ruby gown, she drifts down the Daru staircase past the Winged Victory of Samothrace, her scarf echoing the sculpture's marble wings, in one of the most beautiful shots in all of cinema. Climb the same stairs, stand before the same statue, and the scene plays itself.

The Paris Opera House is celebrated the world over for its interiors, but for Audrey's admirers it is the grand staircase that matters. In Funny Face, dressed in a glorious emerald-green coat, she descends these very stairs to be photographed by Fred Astaire, in one of the most iconic fashion scenes ever committed to film. Guided tours let you stand exactly where she stood.

Two of the most atmospheric settings in Charade sit within easy reach of each other. The elegant colonnades of the Palais-Royal, near the Louvre, provide the film's tense final act, while in the leafy Champs-Élysées gardens Audrey and Cary Grant meet at a little marionette theatre, the Guignol puppet show that still delights children today. Both are free to wander and pure old Paris.

A long-standing Parisian café dating to the 1920s, Carette was a favourite of Audrey's, who came for the one thing she could never resist: their chocolat chaud. Take a table on the terrace at Place du Trocadéro, order the hot chocolate thick and dark, and watch the Eiffel Tower across the river as she once did.

No restaurant conjures Belle Époque Paris like Maxim's, the crimson-and-gilt Art Nouveau institution that has fed the city's beau monde since 1893. It is also woven into Audrey's own story: she originated the title role of Gigi on Broadway in 1951, the tale that famously reaches its climax over supper at Maxim's, the launch that carried her to Hollywood. Dine here for the full swirl of old Parisian glamour.

No address mattered more to Audrey than the house of Givenchy. Her lifelong friendship with the designer Hubert de Givenchy began in 1953 and shaped her entire look, from the little black dress of Breakfast at Tiffany's to the L'Interdit perfume he blended just for her. Visit the flagship on Avenue George V, the heart of Paris couture, and you are at the source of the Hepburn style.

Audrey retreated to this Belle Époque palace on the Gulf of Saint-Tropez, a Riviera hideaway that had earlier drawn the likes of Winston Churchill and F. Scott Fitzgerald. Set among gardens above the sea, it offered the perfect quiet base while she filmed on the coast.

For something more barefoot and beachy, Audrey spent time at this glamorous, laid-back resort on the quiet stretches of Pampelonne Beach in Saint-Tropez. It was the ideal escape during the filming of Two for the Road, and still trades on that effortless Riviera cool.

The art-deco grande dame of Mayfair was one of Audrey's favoured London escapes, and it famously hosted her "Welcome Home" cocktail reception in May 1953, after the filming of Roman Holiday that would make her a star. Afternoon tea beneath its glittering foyer is a fittingly glamorous tribute.

In the early 1950s, Audrey lived in a flat here, at the very moment she made the leap from the London stage to international cinema icon. The spot is marked with an official English Heritage Blue Plaque, one of the few in London to honour a Hollywood star.

Audrey's style refuses to age, and exhibitions of her clothes tour the world constantly. One of the most rewarding permanent collections is here at Newbridge Silverware, where the Museum of Style Icons displays several of her original outfits alongside costumes from other legends of the screen. A genuine treat for anyone who loves the Hepburn look.

This legendary hotel at the very top of the Spanish Steps was Audrey's ultimate home away from home in Rome, and she was especially fond of the wood-framed San Pietro Suite. The rooftop restaurant offers one of the greatest views in the city, straight down over the rooftops she loved to wander.

The most famous staircase in Rome is pure Roman Holiday, the sun-drenched setting where Audrey's runaway princess eats a gelato and cuts her hair loose. Climb them at dawn before the crowds arrive and the scene is entirely yours.

Rome's grandest fountain plays its part in Roman Holiday too: it is near here, on Vicolo Scavolino just off the piazza, that the runaway princess slips into a barber's shop and has her long hair cropped into the gamin cut that launched a thousand imitations. Toss in a coin to guarantee your return to Rome, exactly as the legend promises.

This is the fountain-that-isn't: a great marble disc carved with the face of a sea god, set in the portico of the church of Santa Maria in Cosmedin. In Roman Holiday's most beloved scene, Gregory Peck slips his hand into its mouth and pretends it has been bitten off, drawing a genuine shriek from Audrey. Legend says the mouth bites the hand of any liar, so place yours with a clear conscience.

Hadrian's cylindrical mausoleum, later a papal fortress, presides over the Tiber, and it was on a barge moored at its foot that the princess dances the night away, sparking the film's riverside brawl. The barges are long gone, but climb down to the embankment for the exact angle the cameras used, or tour the castle's spiralling ramp for one of the best views in Rome.

Joe Bradley's apartment, where the princess spends her stolen night, sits at number 51 on this cobbled artists' lane near the Spanish Steps, later the real-life home of Federico Fellini. Cloaked in ivy and dotted with galleries, it is one of the prettiest and most peaceful streets in the city.

No scene is more Roman Holiday than Audrey and Gregory Peck weaving through the traffic on a Vespa, and the good news is you can do exactly that. Several outfits hire vintage-style scooters and run guided tours past the Colosseum, along Via dei Fori Imperiali and around Piazza Venezia, the very route the pair careered down on screen. If you dare brave the Roman traffic, there is no better way to feel like her princess on the loose.

The breathtaking gilded gallery of this thirteenth-century palace is the setting for the unforgettable final scene of Roman Holiday, the press conference where princess and reporter say their wordless goodbye. The gallery opens to visitors on Saturday mornings.

When Audrey lived in Rome, Sunday lunch was often taken at this atmospheric Trastevere trattoria, tucked into a garden said to have belonged to Raphael's muse. Long, lazy and gloriously Roman, it is exactly the sort of table she loved.

A discreet, old-world Roman institution just off the smart shopping streets, Da Nino was one of Audrey's regular haunts on Via Borgognona. Tuscan cooking, white tablecloths and precious little fuss.

Rome's oldest café, open since 1760 on the smart Via dei Condotti a step from the Spanish Steps, has served Keats, Byron, Casanova and the film stars of Audrey's Rome beneath its red velvet and gilt. Take an espresso standing at the marble bar, or linger in the little salons for the full weight of history.

For the gelato Audrey's princess so happily devoured, make for this beloved parlour near the Pantheon, serving Romans since 1900. Order a cone piled high, wander out into the piazza and eat it exactly as she did on the Spanish Steps.

The glossy heart of Rome's dolce vita, this Via Veneto institution has mixed cocktails for film stars and jet-setters since 1958. Settle into the wood-panelled bar for a negroni and a taste of the glamorous Rome that swirled around Audrey.

To follow Audrey's everyday Rome, walk in the gardens of Villa Borghese as she did, then queue for vegetables at the morning market in Campo de' Fiori, just as she once did with her sons, relatively unnoticed, atop the city's sanpietrini cobblestones.

Perched above the Ionian Sea, this former fourteenth-century convent hosted Audrey during the golden age of the jet set. Now impeccably reborn as a Four Seasons, with its cloisters, sea-terraces and clifftop pool, it is one of the most romantic addresses in the Mediterranean.

Audrey stayed at this historic lakeside retreat, a former archbishop's hunting lodge on the shores of Lake Fuschl just outside Salzburg. Freshly reimagined by Rosewood, the castle still commands its own stretch of Alpine water, mountains rising straight from the far shore.

Before they built their own villa, Audrey and her first husband Mel Ferrer were closely associated with this iconic beach-club hotel on the Golden Mile, where they frequently stayed. Founded by Prince Alfonso de Hohenlohe, it remains the effortlessly elegant heart of old Marbella.

Audrey and Mel Ferrer built their own private hillside villa on the Golden Mile, next to the Marbella Club, and named it Santa Catalina. Here, among expansive gardens and a vegetable patch, she spent several happy years raising her son Sean. Remarkably, the estate can now be booked, complete with six suites, an enormous pool, a games room and a private tennis court, so you really can stay where she lived.

On Majorca's secluded Formentor peninsula, Audrey stayed at the legendary Hotel Formentor, a pine-forested sanctuary that had drawn stars from Grace Kelly to Charlie Chaplin since it opened in 1929. Meticulously reborn as a Four Seasons, it remains a tranquil hideaway between the mountains and the sea.

Audrey stayed at this grand mid-century landmark, historically the Ritz, during her visit to Portugal in September 1968. A modernist palace hung with commissioned art and tapestries, it remains the finest address in the Portuguese capital.

While in Portugal, Audrey spent time along the coast in the pretty resort towns of Estoril and Cascais, in the company of the fashion designer Oscar de la Renta. A short train ride from Lisbon, the palm-lined promenade and sheltered coves make an easy and elegant day by the sea.

Audrey stayed at this historic five-star grande dame on Kongens Nytorv during her visit to the Danish capital. Dating to the eighteenth century, gleaming white and endlessly refined, it is still the grandest place to sleep in Copenhagen.

Audrey also frequented Copenhagen's other great silver-screen hotel, the Anton Rosen-designed Palace on the City Hall Square, which hosted many of the era's biggest stars. A striking piece of Danish Art Nouveau, and a lovely landmark to admire.

Audrey travelled on to Stockholm for the Swedish premiere of The Nun's Story, and was photographed about the city during the visit. There is no single site to book, but the elegant streets of Gamla Stan and the waterfront around the Grand Hôtel evoke the world she moved through.

In July 1970, Audrey holidayed on the car-free island of Hydra with her husband Andrea Dotti and friends, soaking up the bohemian, laid-back atmosphere of the Saronic Gulf. Hydra has no large resorts and no cars, only donkeys, sea and stone; visitors stay in historic captains' houses and small boutique hideaways, exactly the kind of unhurried escape Audrey came for.

Audrey stayed at this fabled palace hotel on her visits to Marrakech, joining a long line of Hollywood royalty drawn to its twenty acres of lush gardens and its traditional Moroccan architecture. Perfumed, palatial and utterly transporting, it remains one of the great hotels of the world.

On her visits to Los Angeles, Audrey was known to stay at this romantic hideaway among the bougainvillea and swans of Stone Canyon, long a favourite of Golden Age Hollywood. Discreet, garden-wrapped and gloriously private, it was exactly the sort of retreat she preferred to the glare of the studios.

The Pink Palace, another haunt of the Old Hollywood set, welcomed Audrey during her Southern California stays. Slip into the Polo Lounge or one of the garden bungalows and you are in the company of every legend of the era.

Audrey was also photographed enjoying this grand hotel at the foot of Rodeo Drive during her time in Southern California. Beautifully positioned for Beverly Hills shopping and star-spotting, it remains a byword for old-school glamour.

Audrey's star is set into the pavement at 1652 Vine Street, a required stop for anyone touring film-history Hollywood.

Audrey was among the many legends to hide away at this fabled ranch in the foothills above Santa Barbara, a celebrity sanctuary since the 1930s under the ownership of actor Ronald Colman. Prized for its seclusion, it drew a glamorous roster from Lucille Ball and Bing Crosby to Winston Churchill. Cottages scattered through citrus groves make it one of the most romantic retreats in California.

Audrey stayed at this landmark San Francisco hotel during her 1953 US tour for the stage musical Gigi, where she was famously photographed with a poodle. Its glass-domed Garden Court remains one of the most beautiful rooms in the city.

Audrey visited and stayed at this Nob Hill grande dame during her lifetime, and gave a UNICEF speech here just a year before she passed away. Grand, gilded and crowning the top of the hill, it is a fitting place to raise a glass to her humanitarian years.

This 1920s Uptown Dallas landmark was a favourite of Golden Age Hollywood, and its twelfth-floor Penthouse Suite is especially well known for hosting Audrey. Now an Autograph Collection hotel, it keeps the glamour of its jazz-age heyday.

This mid-century-modern icon in Downtown Dallas has welcomed a roll call of legends over the years, Audrey among them. Handsomely restored, it is a stylish base in the heart of the city.

This stately hotel overlooking Central Park is where Audrey celebrated her Roman Holiday Oscar, one of the great nights of her early career. Afternoon tea in the Rotunda beneath its painted murals makes an elegant tribute.

Built by William Randolph Hearst, this Midtown landmark has long drawn Hollywood royalty, and Audrey was among its famous guests. A characterful and central place to stay, steps from the theatres and Fifth Avenue shopping.

When Audrey came to Manhattan for work or leisure, she favoured this hushed, art-lined landmark on the Upper East Side, discreet enough to protect even the most recognisable face in the world. It was here that she first met Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis. Take a drink in the Bemelmans Bar and soak up the seclusion she prized.

In her most iconic film, Holly Golightly lived at a graceful five-storey brownstone at 169 East 71st Street. The interiors were shot on a Hollywood set, but the exterior is one of the most famous film addresses in New York, and fans still pause on the pavement to picture her climbing the steps in that black Givenchy gown.

You can, at last, quite literally have breakfast at Tiffany's. The Blue Box Café inside the flagship store on Fifth Avenue serves eggs and caviar, tea service and a famous Blue Box Cosmo in a room of Tiffany-blue boxes and black-and-white Audrey portraits. It is as close as anyone gets to stepping inside the movie.

Audrey stayed at this butter-hued 1926 hideaway off Hibiscus Avenue, long a discreet sanctuary for Hollywood royalty. In tribute, the property today offers a dedicated Hepburn Suite in her honour, making it one of the few places on the trail where you can sleep in a room that carries her name.

Audrey stayed at this handsomely restored 1927 landmark during her time in Vancouver, where she famously requested a special gourmet room-service menu that could be served late into the night. A jewel of the city's golden age, polished back to full glamour.

Audrey holidayed at the Panorama Villa, a mid-century retreat perched in the jungle near Port Antonio with sweeping views of the Caribbean Sea and the Blue Mountains. It is now part of the intimate, music-loving Geejam hotel, and the villa itself can be booked.

This timeless, under-the-radar resort at Ocho Rios has quietly hosted Old Hollywood for generations, Audrey and Marilyn Monroe among them. Small, serene and gloriously old-fashioned, with its own private cove.

In the hills near Oracabessa stands the former home of the playwright Noël Coward, who entertained a stream of famous guests here, Audrey among them. Now open to visitors, the house is preserved much as he left it, and the view over the coast is one of the finest in Jamaica.

Audrey is famously associated with this gleaming 1923 landmark on Avenida Atlântica, one of South America's most legendary hotels and a byword for hosting Hollywood royalty and international luminaries. All white façade, marble and grand pool, it remains the grande dame of the Brazilian coast, perfectly placed for the cable car up Sugarloaf Mountain.

Audrey and her two sons spent three nights at this stately hotel in March 1983, while in Japan to celebrate the thirtieth anniversary of the house of Givenchy. She was captivated by its serenity and by the grand black chandelier hanging in the main building, and, with her son Luca unwell, spent much of the stay indoors admiring its tranquil, traditional atmosphere.

One of the most storied hotels in Asia welcomed Audrey during her travels through the region, and her portrait still hangs in its famous Author's Lounge, alongside those of the writers and stars who made the hotel a legend. Take afternoon tea on the river terrace and you are in very good company.

Between missions, Audrey occasionally rested at this historic club on the slopes of Mount Kenya, an old-world safari retreat straddling the equator with the snow-capped peak as its backdrop. A place of quiet beauty amid the demanding work that defined her final years.