Heritage Listed Cities

According to UNESCO, the United Nations’ cultural branch, two thirds of the world’s historical artistic heritage is located in Italy.

Tuscany, which is only one region of Italy, by itself possesses more artistic treasures than the whole of Spain, which is the second country in the world for cultural heritage. Practically all major styles of Western architecture can be found in Italy.

The following Italian sites have been placed by UNESCO on its World Heritage List:

• Rock Drawings in Valcamonica, Lombardy (1979),
• Church and Dominican Convent of Santa Maria delle Grazie with ‘The Last Supper’ by Leonardo da Vinci, Lombardy (1980),
• Historic Centre of Rome, and San Paolo Fuori le Mura, Latium (1980)
• Historic Centre of Florence, Tuscany (1982),
• Venice and its Lagoon, Veneto (1987),
• Piazza del Duomo in Pisa, Tuscany (1987),
• Historic Centre of San Gimignano, Tuscany (1990),
• I Sassi di Matera, Basilicata (1993),
• City of Vicenza and the Palladian Villas of Veneto (1994),
• Crespi d’Adda, Lombardy (1995),
• Ferrara, Renaissance City, and its Po Delta, Emilia-Romagna (1995),
• Historic Centre of Naples, Campania (1995),
• Historic Centre of Siena, Tuscany (1995),
• Early Christian Monuments of Ravenna, Emilia-Romagna (1196),
• Castel del Monte, Apulia (1996),
• The Trulli houses of Alberobello, Apulia (1996),
• Historic Centre of the City of Pienza, Tuscany (1996),
• 18th Century Royal Palace at Caserta, with the Park, the Aqueduct of Vanvitelli and San Leucio Complex, Campania (1997),
• Archaeological Area of Agrigento, Sicily (1997),
• Archaeological Areas of Pompeii, Herculaneum and Torre Annunziata, Campania (1997),
• Botanical Garden in Padua, Veneto (1997),
• Cathedral, Torre Civica and Piazza Grande in Modena, Emilia-Romagna (1997)
• Amalfi Coast, Campania (1997),
• Residences of the Royal House of Savoy, Piedmont (1997),
• Su Nuraxi di Barumini, Sardinia (1997),
• Villa Romana del Casale, Sicily (1997),
• Portovenere, Cinque Terre and the Islands (Palmaria, Tino and Tinetto), Liguria (1997),
• Historic Centre of Urbino, Marche (1998),
• Archaelogical Area and the Patriarchal Basilica of Aquileia, Friuli-Venezia Giulia (1998),
• Cilento and Vallo di Diano National Park with the Archaeological sites of Paestum and Velia, and the Certosa di Padula, Campania (1998),
• Villa Adriana in Tivoli, Latium (1999),
• The Basilica of San Francesco and Other Franciscan Sites in Assisi, Umbria (2000),
• Aeolian Islands, Sicily (2000),
• City of Verona, Veneto (2000),
• Villa d’Este in Tivoli, Latium (2001),
• Late Baroque Towns of the Val di Noto, Sicily (2002),
• Sacri Monte, Piedmont and Lombardy (2003),
• Etruscan Necropolises of Cerveteri and Tarquinia, Latium (2004),
• Val d’Orcia, Tuscany (2004).
• Syracuse and the Rocky Necropolis of Pantalica (2005)