Venice in five emoji

What each emoji refers to

🚣

Around four hundred gondolas remain. A 1562 law made them all black to stop nobles competing.

🌊

Acqua alta floods St Mark's Square, the lowest point in the city, several times a year.

🎭

Carnival masks let wearers cross social rank, which is why the republic kept banning them.

🏛️

St Mark's Basilica is Byzantine rather than Italian in style, and much of it is looted.

🕊️

Feeding the pigeons in St Mark's Square was banned in 2008.

Venice at a glance

Country

Italy

Coordinates

45.44° N, 12.32° E

First played

7 May 2026

Also accepted

Venezia

Nearest cities in the game

Distances are great-circle, the same measure the game reports after a wrong guess. The arrow is the direction you would need to travel from Venice.