10 Most Beautiful Rivers in Europe, Ranked
Europe's most beautiful rivers run straight through cities, forests and mountains, traversing various landscapes that make them stunning.
Photogenic Rivers
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Beaches set against backdrops of massive oceans and seas typically take the spotlight when it comes to beautiful photos of the world's bodies of water.
But what about rivers? These beauties run straight through cities, forests and mountains, traversing various landscapes that make them equally stunning.
The title of most photogenic is in the eye of the beholder, but there is one metric we can turn to — the number of Instagram hashtags that call out Europe's most beautiful rivers. These are the top 10 we can't stop looking at.
10. Tiber River
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Country: Italy
No. of Instagram posts: 141,584
* The number of Instagram posts listed comes from a study backed by B-Well CBD.
Facts About the Tiber
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Length: 252 miles
Source: Mount Fumaiolo
Mouth: Tyrrhenian Sea
Bridges Crossing the Tiber
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Cities: Rome, Perugia
Bridges: Ponte dell'Industria o di Ferro, Milvio Bridge, Ponte Marconi
9. Vistula River
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Country: Poland
No. of Instagram posts: 152,045
Facts About the Vistula
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Length: 650.6 miles
Source: Barania Gora, Silesian Beskids
Mouth: Baltic Sea, Gulf of Gdansk
Bridges Crossing the Vistula
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Cities: Wisla, Ustron, Kraków, Warsaw, Kazimierz Dolny, Nowe
Bridges: Swietokrzyski Bridge, Brug van Tczew, Most Debnicki
8. Rhine River
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Countries: Switzerland, Germany
No. of Instagram posts: 335,867
Facts About the Rhine
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Length: 650.6 miles
Source: Vorderrhein, Hinterrhein
Mouth: North Sea
Bridges Crossing the Rhine
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Cities: Cologne, Bingen, Strasbourg, Rüdesheim am Rhein
Bridges: Hohenzollern Bridge, Leverkusener Rheinbrücke
7. Loire River
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Country: France
No. of Instagram posts: 739,647
Facts About the Loire
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Length: 625.1 miles
Source: Mont Gerbier de Jonc
Mouth: Atlantic Ocean
Bridges Crossing the Loire
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Cities: Nantes, Tours, Cosne-Cours-sur-Loire, La Charité-sur-Loire
Bridges: Pont de Saint-Nazaire, Briare aqueduct, Pont de Cheviré
6. Douro River
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Countries: Spain, Portugal
No. of Instagram posts: 746,848
Facts About the Douro
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Length: 557 miles
Source: Picos de Urbion
Mouth: Atlantic Ocean
Bridges Crossing the Douro
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Cities: Porto, Aranda de Duero, Miranda do Douro Municipality
Bridges: Luís I Bridge, Puente María Pía, Ponte da Arrábida
5. Ural River
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Countries: Russia, Kazakhstan
No. of Instagram posts: 1,047,842
Facts About the Ural
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Length: 1,059 miles
Source: Ural Mountains
Mouth: Caspian Sea
Bridges That Cross the Ural
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Cities: Uralsk, Atyrau, Orenburg, Orsk, Magnitogorsk
Bridges: Ural River Bridge
4. Seine River
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Country: France
No. of Instagram posts: 1,164,012
Facts About the Siene
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Length: 482 miles
Source: Source-Siene
Mouth: English Channel
Bridges That Cross the Siene
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Cities: Paris, Le Havre
Bridges: Pont Neuf, Pont Alexandre III, Pont des Arts
3. Elbe River
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Countries: Czech Republic, Bohemia, Germany
No. of Instagram posts: 1,253,585
Facts About the Elbe
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Length: 679.8 miles
Source: Giant Mountains
Mouth: North Sea
Bridges That Cross the Elbe
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Cities: Hamburg, Ústí nad Labem, Dresden, Magdeburg, Meissen
Bridges: Loschwitz Bridge, Augustus Bridge
2. Danube River
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Countries: Germany, Hungary, Romania, Austria, Serbia, Bulgaria, Ukraine, Slovakia, Croatia
No. of Instagram posts: 1,387,365
Facts About the Danube
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Length: 1,771 miles
Sources: Brigach, Breg
Mouth: Danube Delta
Bridges That Cross the Danube
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Cities: Budapest, Vienna, Passau, Bratislava, Regensburg
Bridges: Giurgiu-Ruse Friendship Bridge, New Europe Bridge, Széchenyi Chain Bridge
1. Thames River
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Country: England
No. of Instagram posts: 1,792,054
Facts About the Thames
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Length: 215 miles
Source: Thames Head
Mouth: Thames Estuary, North Sea
Bridges That Cross the Thames
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Cities: London, Henley-on-Thames, Oxford, Windsor, Reading
Bridges: Tower Bridge, London Bridge, Westminster Bridge