Explore Europe Attractions

Explore Europe Attractions

Discover iconic landmarks, historic sites, and incredible attractions across Europe.

St. Mark’s Square in Venice with St. Mark’s Basilica and Campanile under a clear blue sky.
Venice

St. Mark’s Square (Piazza San Marco)

Venice's grand main square, ringed by the Basilica, the Doge's Palace and centuries-old arcades, and the ceremonial heart of the city.

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St. Mark’s Basilica in Venice with its ornate façade, golden mosaics, domes, and Gothic details.
Venice

St. Mark’s Basilica (Basilica di San Marco)

Venice's Byzantine-style cathedral on Piazza San Marco, famed for its gilded mosaics, the Pala d'Oro altarpiece and its nickname, the Church of Gold.

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Doge’s Palace in Venice, Italy, with its ornate Gothic façade, arches, columns, and Venetian waterfront.
Venice

Doge’s Palace (Palazzo Ducale)

The Gothic seat of Venetian government for seven centuries, with grand council chambers, masterworks by Tintoretto and the Bridge of Sighs.

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Rialto Bridge in Venice, Italy, spanning the Grand Canal amid historic palaces and gondolas.
Venice

Rialto Bridge (Ponte di Rialto)

The oldest and most famous bridge over the Grand Canal, a single stone arch lined with shops linking the San Marco and San Polo districts.

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Grand Canal in Venice, Italy, with historic palaces, gondolas, boats, and Santa Maria della Salute.
Venice

Grand Canal (Canal Grande)

Venice's main waterway, a reverse-S canal lined with centuries of palaces, crossed by four bridges and travelled daily by gondolas and vaporetti.

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Bridge of Sighs in Venice, Italy, spanning a narrow canal between historic stone buildings.
Venice

Bridge of Sighs (Ponte dei Sospiri)

An enclosed limestone bridge linking the Doge's Palace to Venice's old prisons, famous for the legend behind its name and its romantic reputation.

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Rialto Market in Venice, Italy, with colorful market stalls, shoppers, canal boats, and the Rialto Bridge.
Venice

Rialto Market

Venice's oldest working market, a cluster of produce and fish stalls beside the Grand Canal that has supplied the city for nearly a thousand years.

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Santa Maria della Salute in Venice, Italy, rising above the Grand Canal with its distinctive domes.
Venice

Santa Maria della Salute

A Baroque church at the mouth of the Grand Canal, built as a votive offering after a devastating plague and crowned by one of Venice's defining domes.

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Teatro La Fenice in Venice, Italy, with its ornate neoclassical façade and lively surrounding square.
Venice

Teatro La Fenice

Venice's celebrated opera house, rebuilt from the ashes three times, and the stage for premieres by Rossini, Bellini, Donizetti and Verdi.

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Murano Island, Venice, with colorful waterfront buildings, boats, glass shops, and the historic bell tower.
Venice

Murano Island

A lagoon island near Venice famed for handblown glass, canal-side workshops, and a craft tradition stretching back more than 700 years.

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Burano Island in Venice with colorful houses, canals, boats and the leaning bell tower
Venice

Burano Island

A small fishing island near Venice known for brightly painted houses, centuries-old lace-making, and a leaning bell tower.

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Peggy Guggenheim Collection in Venice with its elegant waterfront façade and sculpture garden
Venice

Peggy Guggenheim Collection

A Grand Canal palazzo showing Peggy Guggenheim's personal collection of Cubist, Surrealist, and Abstract Expressionist art.

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Basilica of San Giorgio Maggiore in Venice with its grand dome and historic bell tower
Venice

Basilica of San Giorgio Maggiore

A Palladio-designed Renaissance basilica on its own Venetian island, with Tintoretto paintings and a bell tower overlooking St. Mark's Basin.

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Venice Arsenal with its historic brick walls, twin towers and ornate entrance
Venice

Venice Arsenal (Arsenale di Venezia)

A vast medieval shipyard in Castello that once built Venice's navy and now houses major Biennale exhibition halls.

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Ca’ d’Oro in Venice with its ornate Gothic marble façade along the Grand Canal
Venice

Ca’ d’Oro

A 15th-century Gothic palace on the Grand Canal, now a gallery of Renaissance paintings, sculpture, and bronzes.

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