world heritage sites

Published April 9, 2009 at 6:08 a.m.
Did you know that Italy has more UNESCO-listed World Heritage Sites than any other country?

Well you do now, so here's the list:


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• 18th-Century Royal Palace at Caserta with the Park, the Aqueduct of Vanvitelli, and the San Leucio Complex...
• Sacri Monti of Piedmont and Lombardy...
• Archaeological Area and the Patriarchal Basilica of Aquileia...
• Archaeological Area of Agrigento...
• Archaeological Areas of Pompei, Herculaneum and Torre Annunziata...
• Assisi, the Basilica of San Francesco and Other Franciscan Sites...
• Botanical Garden (Orto Botanico), Padua...
• Castel del Monte...
• Cathedral, Torre Civica and Piazza Grande, Modena...
• Church and Dominican Convent of Santa Maria delle Grazie with "The Last Supper" by Leonardo da Vinci...
• Cilento and Vallo di Diano National Park with the Archeological sites of Paestum and Velia, and the Certosa di Padula...
• City of Verona...
• City of Vicenza and the Palladian Villas of the Veneto...
• Costiera Amalfitana...
• Crespi d'Adda...
• Early Christian Monuments of Ravenna...
• Etruscan Necropolises of Cerveteri and Tarquinia...
• Ferrara, City of the Renaissance, and its Po Delta...
• Genoa: Le Strade Nuove and the system of the Palazzi dei Rolli...
• Historic Centre of Florence...
• Historic Centre of Naples...
• Historic Centre of Rome, the Properties of the Holy See in that City Enjoying Extraterritorial Rights and San Paolo Fuori le Mura...
• Historic Centre of San Gimignano...
• Historic Centre of Siena...
• Historic Centre of the City of Pienza...
• Historic Centre of Urbino...
• Isole Eolie (Aeolian Islands)...
• Late Baroque Towns of the Val di Noto (South-Eastern Sicily)...
• Mantua and Sabbioneta...
• Piazza del Duomo, Pisa...
• Portovenere, Cinque Terre, and the Islands (Palmaria, Tino and Tinetto)...
• Residences of the Royal House of Savoy...
• Rhaetian Railway in the Albula / Bernina Landscapes...
• Rock Drawings in Valcamonica...
• Su Nuraxi di Barumini...
• Syracuse and the Rocky Necropolis of Pantalica...
• The Trulli of Alberobello...
• The Sassi and the Park of the Rupestrian Churches of Matera...
• Val d'Orcia...
• Venice and its Lagoon...
• Villa Adriana (Tivoli)...
• Villa d'Este, Tivoli...
• Villa Romana del Casale...

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