The European Variscan belt is a unique orogen that is covered by comprehensive sets of seismic and potential field data from the Iberian Peninsula in the west to the Polish Sudetes in the east. The combination of both allows for a new interpretation of the structure and evolution of the European Variscides at the continental scale. The European Variscan belt has been divided into three domains according to distinct geological and geophysical characteristics: 1) the North-eastern Variscan Domain (NVD) outcropping in the Bohemian Massif, Black Forest and Vosges Massifs, and the Rhenish Massif, 2) the Central Variscan Domain (CVD) represented by the French Massif Central, Armorican Massif and British Variscides, and 3) The South-western Variscan Domain (SVD) represented by the Iberian Massif. The gravity data show the presence of high amplitude, short-wavelength gravity anomalies that are mainly correlated with the outcrops of eclogites, ultramafic rocks and ophiolites. These anomalies locate the main body of the Mid-Variscan Allochthon in the SVD and CVD and the Devonian Mid-Variscan suture in the NVD. The gravity data also show medium amplitude elongated long-wavelength gravity highs aligned parallel to the structural grain of the Variscan belt, represented by the deformed Teplá-Barrandian-Kraichgau upper crustal rocks, a Devonian supra-subduction basin in the Mid-Variscan Allochthon, and the autochthonous rocks of the Central Iberian Zone in the SVD, the Armorican Massif in the CVD and the Saxothuringian Zone in the NVD. The short wavelength negative gravity anomalies are mainly developed in the central part of the belt and coincide with Carboniferous (330–310 Ma) per- to meta-aluminous magmatic bodies, pre-Variscan orthogneisses and Carboniferous felsic granulite bodies. Noticeably, Permian (300–290 Ma) granitoids do not reveal any gravity lows indicating that these bodies are not deeply rooted. The magnetic data show two belts correlated to Carboniferous Rhenohercynian and Devonian Mid-Variscan magmatic arc gra...