Angels and Demons | Setting

There are two major settings in Angels and Demons. The first is the Vatican and its surrounding sites of Catholic worship in Rome; the second is CERN, a scientific counterpoint to the Vatican.

Located in Geneva, Switzerland, CERN is ultramodern and filled with world-class minds and gleaming technological artifacts that extend its reach around the world (such as the Internet, which it had a hand in creating, and the X-33 jet that carries Langdon there at several times the speed of sound). The site of cutting-edge research into the nature of matter, and ultimately of...

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