Sölden, in Austria’s Tyrol, Scotland on Sunday travel

IceQ, one of the locations in the Bond film, Spectre

Travel wishlist - visit ELEMENTS a Bond setting in Spectre

When seeking locations for the 24th James Bond film, Spectre, there was a hunt for “extreme and new territory”. And as I stand more than 3,000 metres above sea level up the Gaislachkogl Mountain in Sölden, in Austria’s Tyrol, admiring the striking glass facade of the ice Q restaurant, it’s no surprise as to why it was an obvious choice of setting.

The building serves on the silver screen as the Hoffler Klinik, the location for the initial meeting of Daniel Craig’s Bond and Léa Seydoux’s Dr Madeleine Swann, with both building and surrounding snowcapped peaks mirroring each character’s frosty, steely exterior.

The location’s starring role has prompted the creation of an adjacent, permanent and state-of-the-art installation known as 007 ELEMENTS.

Cast dramatically into the mountain landscape, Tyrolean architect Johann Obermoser and his team – also behind ice Q – brought it to life and it’s inspired by James Bond production designer Sir Ken Adam. The focus is inevitably on the film in which it featured, Spectre, but I’m pleased to see nods to the rest of the Bond canon.

We arrive after riding up the mountain by cable car, following in the footsteps of Q in pursuit of 007.

Bond art director Neal Callow explains that the installation seeks to have a cinematic feeling rather than being a conventional museum, making visitors feel part of the James Bond world. That movie-style feel is clearest in the initial Barrel of The Gun room featuring title sequences, plus the Lair section whose innovative immersive digital theatre incorporates a transfixing combination of mirrors and screens highlighting iconic scenes.

007 ELEMENTS rekindles my love for all things Bond and over the course of the trip my companions and I debate our favourite actors, films, scenes and quotes from the franchise.

Daniel Craig as Bond in Spectre, filmed in the Austrian Tyrol

It even has a Tech Lab with various pivotal items on display – including, of course, a golden gun. It also lets you have your spy skills “assessed”. My predicted career capabilities include £178 million in casino winnings, and my number of “amorous liaisons” and villains terminated both come in at a (rather ominous?) 19.

The striking showpiece of the installation harks back to one of Skyfall’s most memorable scenes – a plane piloted by Bond smashing through a mountainside building – which is rendered in suspended animation in the Action Hall to dramatic effect, looking out over the Ötztal Alps and locations used in the making of Spectre.

In addition to plenty to entertain Bond fans of a range of devotion levels, there’s also more technical detail on the complex mechanics of filming Spectre’s action scenes.

Our visit concluded, we have a three-course lunch at ice Q, inevitably including a smooth martini shaken tableside, cushioned by mains including corn-fed chicken with mushroom risotto, and we sample the PINO 3000 that’s matured on the summit of the Gaislachkogl. Described as “a distinctive, full-bodied, yet unobtrusive Pinot Noir, which has a story to tell and is expressive”, I’m not inclined to disagree.