UNESCO World Heritage Sites in Italy are:

1. Rock Drawings in Valcamonica
2. Church and Dominican Convent of Santa Maria delle Grazie with “The Last Supper” by Leonardo da Vinci
3. Historic Centre of Rome, the Properties of the Holy See in that City Enjoying Extraterritorial Rights and San Paolo Fuori le Mura
4. Historic Centre of Florence
5. Piazza del Duomo, Pisa
6. Venice and its Lagoon
7. Historic Centre of San Gimignano
8. The Sassi and the Park of the Rupestrian Churches of Matera
9. City of Vicenza and the Palladian Villas of the Veneto
10. Crespi d’Adda
11. Ferrara, City of the Renaissance, and its Po Delta
12. Historic Centre of Naples
13. Historic Centre of Siena
14. Castel del Monte
15. Early Christian Monuments of Ravenna
16. Historic Centre of the City of Pienza
17. The Trulli of Alberobello
18. 18th-Century Royal Palace at Caserta with the Park, the Aqueduct of Vanvitelli, and the San Leucio Complex
19. Archaeological Area of Agrigento
20. Archaeological Areas of Pompei, Herculaneum and Torre Annunziata
21. Botanical Garden (Orto Botanico), Padua
22. Cathedral, Torre Civica and Piazza Grande, Modena
23. Costiera Amalfitana
24. Portovenere, Cinque Terre, and the Islands (Palmaria, Tino and Tinetto)
25. Residences of the Royal House of Savoy
26. Su Nuraxi di Barumini
27. Villa Romana del Casale
28. Archaeological Area and the Patriarchal Basilica of Aquileia
29. Cilento and Vallo di Diano National Park with the Archeological Sites of Paestum and Velia, and the Certosa di Padula
30. Historic Centre of Urbino
31. Villa Adriana (Tivoli)
32. Assisi, the Basilica of San Francesco and Other Franciscan Sites
33. City of Verona
34. Isole Eolie (Aeolian Islands)
35. Villa d’Este, Tivoli
36. Late Baroque Towns of the Val di Noto (South-Eastern Sicily)
37. Sacri Monti of Piedmont and Lombardy
38. Monte San Giorgio
39. Etruscan Necropolises of Cerveteri and Tarquinia
40. Val d’Orcia
41. Syracuse and the Rocky Necropolis of Pantalica
42. Genoa: Le Strade Nuove and the system of the Palazzi dei Rolli
43. Ancient and Primeval Beech Forests of the Carpathians and Other Regions of Europe
44. Mantua and Sabbioneta
45. Rhaetian Railway in the Albula / Bernina Landscapes
46. The Dolomites
47. Longobards in Italy. Places of the Power (568-774 A.D.)
48. Prehistoric Pile Dwellings around the Alps
49. Medici Villas and Gardens in Tuscany
50. Mount Etna
51. Vineyard Landscape of Piedmont: Langhe-Roero and Monferrato
52. Arab-Norman Palermo and the Cathedral Churches of Cefalú and Monreale
53. Venetian Works of Defence between the 16th and 17th Centuries: Stato da Terra – Western Stato da Mar
54. Ivrea, industrial city of the 20th century
55. Le Colline del Prosecco di Conegliano e Valdobbiadene
56. Padua’s fourteenth-century fresco cycles
57. The Great Spa Towns of Europe
58. The Porticoes of Bologna
59. Evaporitic Karst and Caves of Northern Apennines

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UNESCO (United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization) World Heritage Sites comprise 1,199 properties.

World heritage property is a legacy from the past, that people live with today, and pass on to future generations.

The cultural and natural heritage are both irreplaceable sources of knowledge and inspiration.

UNESCO seeks to encourage the identification, protection and preservation of cultural and natural heritage around the world that are considered to be of outstanding value to humanity. This is embodied in an international treaty known as the Convention concerning the Protection of the World Cultural and Natural Heritage, adopted by UNESCO in 1972.

A World Heritage Site is an area or landmark designated by UNESCO for having cultural, historical, scientific or other forms of significance. The sites have legal protection by an international convention.

A World Heritage Site is nominated by their host country and determined by the international committee to be a unique landmark which is geographically and historically identifiable and having a special cultural or physical significance. World Heritage Sites are usually ones with ancient features, historical structures, buildings, cities, deserts, forests, islands, lakes, monuments or mountains.

The site may signify a remarkable accomplishment of people and serve as evidence of intellectual history or a place of unparralled natural beauty.

The sites are intended for practical conservation for posterity, which otherwise would be subject to risk from human or animal trespassing, unmonitored, uncontrolled or unrestricted access, or threat from local administrative negligence. Sites are demarcated by UNESCO as protected zones.

The programme catalogues, names, and conserves sites of outstanding cultural or natural importance.

The work began with the Convention Concerning the Protection of the World’s Cultural and Natural Heritage. The convention was adopted by the General Conference of UNESCO on 16 November 1972. Since then, 195 states have ratified the convention, making it one of the most widely recognised international agreements and a popular cultural programme.