UNESCO World Heritage in Italy

Open my heart and you will see engraved inside, "Italy". by Robert Browning. 

Italy has 55 sites included by UNESCO in the World Heritage List.
That of World Heritage Site is the official name of these areas according to the Convention on World Heritage adopted by the General Conference of UNESCO on November 16, 1972.
The purpose of this convention is to identify, according to specific criteria, areas, sites, and places that represent peculiarities of particular importance from a cultural, artistic, archaeological, environmental or landscape point of view.

UNESCO World Heritage Sites

Cultural (50)

• Sacri Monti of Piedmont and Lombardy (2003)
• 18th-Century Royal Palace at Caserta with the Park, the Aqueduct of Vanvitelli, and the San Leucio Complex (1997)
• Arab-Norman Palermo and the Cathedral Churches of Cefalú and Monreale (2015)
• Archaeological Area and the Patriarchal Basilica of Aquileia (1998)
• Archaeological Area of Agrigento (1997)
• Archaeological Areas of Pompei, Herculaneum and Torre Annunziata (1997)
• Assisi, the Basilica of San Francesco and Other Franciscan Sites (2000)
• Botanical Garden (Orto Botanico), Padua (1997)
• Castel del Monte (1996)
• Cathedral, Torre Civica and Piazza Grande, Modena (1997)
• Church and Dominican Convent of Santa Maria delle Grazie with “The Last Supper” by Leonardo da Vinci (1980)
• Cilento and Vallo di Diano National Park with the Archeological Sites of Paestum and Velia, and the Certosa di Padula (1998)
• City of Verona (2000)
• City of Vicenza and the Palladian Villas of the Veneto (1994,1996)
• Costiera Amalfitana (1997)
• Crespi d'Adda (1995)
• Early Christian Monuments of Ravenna (1996)
• Etruscan Necropolises of Cerveteri and Tarquinia (2004)
• Ferrara, City of the Renaissance, and its Po Delta (1995,1999)
• Genoa: Le Strade Nuove and the system of the Palazzi dei Rolli (2006)
• Historic Centre of Florence (1982)
• Historic Centre of Naples (1995)
• Historic Centre of Rome, the Properties of the Holy See in that City Enjoying Extraterritorial Rights and San Paolo Fuori le Mura (1980,1990)
• Historic Centre of San Gimignano (1990)
• Historic Centre of Siena (1995)
• Historic Centre of the City of Pienza (1996)
• Historic Centre of Urbino (1998)
• Ivrea, industrial city of the 20th century (2018)
• Late Baroque Towns of the Val di Noto (South-Eastern Sicily) (2002)
• Le Colline del Prosecco di Conegliano e Valdobbiadene (2019)
• Longobards in Italy. Places of the Power (568-774 A.D.) (2011)
• Mantua and Sabbioneta (2008)
• Medici Villas and Gardens in Tuscany (2013)
• Piazza del Duomo, Pisa (1987)
• Portovenere, Cinque Terre, and the Islands (Palmaria, Tino and Tinetto) (1997)
• Prehistoric Pile Dwellings around the Alps (2011)
• Residences of the Royal House of Savoy (1997)
• Rhaetian Railway in the Albula / Bernina Landscapes (2008)
• Rock Drawings in Valcamonica (1979)
• Su Nuraxi di Barumini (1997)
• Syracuse and the Rocky Necropolis of Pantalica (2005)
• The Trulli of Alberobello (1996)
• The Sassi and the Park of the Rupestrian Churches of Matera (1993)
• Val d'Orcia (2004)
• Venetian Works of Defence between the 16th and 17th Centuries: Stato da Terra – Western Stato da Mar (2017)
• Venice and its Lagoon (1987)
• Villa Adriana (Tivoli) (1999)
• Villa d'Este, Tivoli (2001)
• Villa Romana del Casale (1997)
• Vineyard Landscape of Piedmont: Langhe-Roero and Monferrato (2014)

Natural (5)

• Ancient and Primeval Beech Forests of the Carpathians and Other Regions of Europe (2007,2011,2017)
• Isole Eolie (Aeolian Islands) (2000)
• Monte San Giorgio (2003,2010)
• Mount Etna (2013)
• The Dolomites (2009)

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