# What to see in Venice: 10 unmissable places
From St Mark's Square to the lagoon islands, the stops that guides and travellers consider essential in Venice.
- 20 votes · 13 items
- Feb 2, 2023 · zaino
- https://even.best/en/l/259/what-to-see-in-venice-10-unmissable-places
## Top 10
1. **Grand Canal** (3 · ▲3 ▼0) — Almost 4 km of palaces, best seen from vaporetto line 1.
2. **St Mark's Square** (2 · ▲2 ▼0) — Venice's only 'piazza', with the Procuratie and Caffè Florian, open since 1720.
3. **Rialto Bridge** (2 · ▲2 ▼0) — The oldest bridge over the Grand Canal, in stone since 1591, next to the Rialto market.
4. **St Mark's Campanile** (2 · ▲2 ▼0) — Bell tower nearly 99 m tall with lagoon views, rebuilt after collapsing in 1902.
5. **Santa Maria della Salute** (2 · ▲2 ▼0) — Baroque church at the mouth of the Grand Canal, built after the 1630 plague.
6. **Murano** (1 · ▲2 ▼1) — Island of blown glass, with its furnaces and the Glass Museum.
7. **St Mark's Basilica** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — Over 8,000 m² of golden mosaics and the jewel-encrusted Pala d'Oro.
8. **Doge's Palace and Bridge of Sighs** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — The doges' Venetian Gothic palace; the visit crosses the Bridge of Sighs to the prisons.
9. **Burano** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — Island of colourful houses and lace, with the Lace Museum.
10. **Jewish Ghetto** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — The world's first ghetto, established in 1516 in Cannaregio, with five synagogues.
11. **Peggy Guggenheim Collection** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — Modern art in Palazzo Venier dei Leoni on the Grand Canal.
12. **Acqua Alta bookshop** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Bookshop in the Castello district where books are stored in gondolas and tubs to save them from high water.
13. **Gallerie dell'Accademia** (-1 · ▲0 ▼1) — The largest collection of Venetian painting, from Bellini to Titian and Tintoretto.
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