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Venice itinerary

Every place in “12 Top Places to Visit in Venice, Italy”. Save places in the guide to make this list yours.

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    St Mark's Basilica - The Most Iconic Landmark in Venice

    Topping every list of places to visit in Venice, St Mark's Basilica is the cathedral of the Venetian patriarchate and the city's central religious building since AD 828, when Venetian merchants smuggled the relics of St…

    Address
    Piazza San Marco 328, 30124 Venezia VE, Italy
    Nearest transit
    San Marco-Vallaresso vaporetto stop (Lines 1, 2), 3-min walk
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    Piazza San Marco - The Heart of Venice

    Napoleon famously called Piazza San Marco "the drawing room of Europe" and the description still fits. The 175-metre by 82-metre square is the only piazza in Venice (every other square is a campo) and the geographic and…

    Address
    Piazza San Marco, 30124 Venezia VE, Italy
    Nearest transit
    San Marco-Vallaresso vaporetto stop (Lines 1, 2, 5.1, 5.2), 1-min walk
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    Doge's Palace - Seat of the Venetian Republic

    The Doge's Palace (Palazzo Ducale) was the seat of the Venetian government for nearly a thousand years - residence of the elected Doge, meeting hall of the Great Council, and headquarters of the law courts and prison…

    Address
    Piazza San Marco 1, 30124 Venezia VE, Italy
    Nearest transit
    San Zaccaria vaporetto stop (Lines 1, 2, 4.1, 4.2, 5.1, 5.2), 2-min walk
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    St Mark's Campanile - The Best View in Venice

    At 98.6 metres, St Mark's Campanile is the tallest structure in Venice and gives the only true bird's-eye view over the city, the lagoon, and on a clear day the Dolomites 100 km to the north. The original 9th-century…

    Address
    Piazza San Marco, 30124 Venezia VE, Italy
    Nearest transit
    San Marco-Vallaresso vaporetto stop (Lines 1, 2), 1-min walk
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    Bridge of Sighs - Venice's Most Photographed Bridge

    The Bridge of Sighs (Ponte dei Sospiri) is a 17th-century enclosed limestone bridge that spans the Rio di Palazzo, connecting the interrogation rooms of the Doge's Palace to the New Prisons. Designed by Antonio Contino…

    Address
    Piazza San Marco 1, 30124 Venezia VE, Italy (between Doge's Palace and Prigioni Nuove)
    Nearest transit
    San Zaccaria vaporetto stop (Lines 1, 2, 4.1, 4.2, 5.1, 5.2), 2-min walk
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    Grand Canal - Venice's Main Waterway

    The Grand Canal (Canal Grande) is Venice's main artery - a 3.8-km, S-shaped waterway 30-90 metres wide that splits the historic centre between the sestieri. Roughly 170 buildings face it, most dating from the 13th to…

    Address
    Piazzale Roma, 30135 Venezia VE, Italy (vaporetto Line 1 starting point)
    Nearest transit
    Any Line 1 or Line 2 vaporetto stop along the canal (15 stops total)
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    Rialto Bridge - The Oldest Crossing of the Grand Canal

    The Rialto Bridge is the oldest of the four bridges spanning the Grand Canal and was the only crossing for nearly 600 years. The current single-span stone bridge by Antonio da Ponte opened in 1591, replacing four…

    Address
    Sestiere San Polo, 30125 Venezia VE, Italy
    Nearest transit
    Rialto vaporetto stop (Lines 1, 2), 1-min walk
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    Gallerie dell'Accademia - Venetian Art from the 14th to 18th Century

    The Gallerie dell'Accademia holds the world's finest collection of pre-19th-century Venetian painting - 800 works housed in three former religious buildings on the south bank of the Grand Canal. The collection follows…

    Address
    Campo della Carita 1050, Dorsoduro, 30123 Venezia VE, Italy
    Nearest transit
    Accademia vaporetto stop (Lines 1, 2), 1-min walk
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    Peggy Guggenheim Collection - Venice's Modern Art Museum

    The Peggy Guggenheim Collection occupies the unfinished one-storey Palazzo Venier dei Leoni on the Grand Canal - the home Peggy Guggenheim (niece of Solomon R. Guggenheim) bought in 1949 and lived in until her death in…

    Address
    Palazzo Venier dei Leoni, Dorsoduro 701, 30123 Venezia VE, Italy
    Nearest transit
    Salute vaporetto stop (Line 1), 5-min walk; Accademia stop (Lines 1, 2), 7-min walk
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    Santa Maria della Salute - Venice's Plague Church

    Santa Maria della Salute is the great octagonal Baroque church that anchors the south side of the Grand Canal entrance - the white-domed silhouette in every postcard sunset over Venice. The Venetian Senate commissioned…

    Address
    Dorsoduro 1, 30123 Venezia VE, Italy
    Nearest transit
    Salute vaporetto stop (Line 1), 1-min walk
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    Murano Island - The Home of Venetian Glass

    Murano is a cluster of seven small islands in the Venetian Lagoon and has been the centre of European glassmaking since 1291, when the Republic relocated all glass furnaces here to prevent fires destroying timber-built…

    Address
    Fondamenta dei Vetrai, Murano, 30141 Venezia VE, Italy (main quay)
    Nearest transit
    Vaporetto Lines 4.1, 4.2, 12, 13 from Fondamente Nove (Cannaregio), 10-min ride
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    Burano Island - Painted Houses and Lacework

    Burano is a small fishing island 40 minutes by vaporetto past Murano and famously the most photogenic spot in the entire Venetian Lagoon. Its 2,800 residents live in pink, lemon, mint, sky-blue, and crimson houses…

    Address
    Via Baldassarre Galuppi, Burano, 30142 Venezia VE, Italy (main street)
    Nearest transit
    Vaporetto Line 12 from Fondamente Nove (Cannaregio), 40-min ride

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