List of World Heritage Sites in Italy

Italy has the biggest number of UNESCO World Heritage Sites in the world. They have 53. Spain is second with 42.

The Historic centre of Rome (St. Peter's Basilica).

The "Sassi" of Matera.

Urbino.

The Reggia di Caserta.

This article lists the 47 UNESCO World Heritage Sites in Italy. They are ordered by when they were added to the list.

Order

1970s

• Rock Drawings in Valcamonica — Rock drawings — 1979

1980s

• Church and Dominican Convent of Santa Maria delle Grazie with the "Last Supper" by Leonardo da Vinci — A convent in Milan with the Renaissance Last Supper — 1980
• Historic Centre of Rome, the Properties of the Holy See, and Basilica of Saint Paul Outside the Walls; shared with the Holy See — 1980, 1990
• Historic Centre of Florence — 1982
• Piazza del Duomo, Pisa — The Medieval Piazza plus the leaning Tower of Pisa — 1987, 2007
• Venice and its lagoon — the city and the lagoon — 1987

1990s

The Baroque sites at Noto (Noto cathedral).

The rocky cliffs of the Cinque Terre in Liguria.

• Historic Centre of San Gimignano — 1990
• The Sassi and the Park of the Rupestrian Churches of Matera — 1993
• City of Vicenza and the Palladian Villas of the Veneto — Most of the Renaissance Venetian villas built by Andrea Palladio — 1994, 1996
• Crespi d'Adda — 1995
• Ferrara, City of the Renaissance, and its Po Delta — 1995, 1999
• Historic Centre of Naples — 1995
• Historic Centre of Siena — 1995
• Castel del Monte, Andria (Bari) — The Medieval castle in Apulia — 1996
• Early Christian Monuments of Ravenna — The many Paleochristian and Romanesque basilicas and buildings in the Emilian city — 1996
• Historic Centre of the City of Pienza — 1996
• The Trulli of Alberobello — The eccentric traditional houses of parts of Apulia; 1996
• 18th century Royal Palace of Caserta with the Park, the Aqueduct of Vanvitelli and the San Leucio Complex — 1997
• Archaeological Area of Agrigento, Sicily — 1997
• Archaeological Areas of Pompeii, Herculaneum and Torre Annunziata — 1997
• Botanical Garden (Orto botanico di Padova), Padua — The oldest botanical garden in the world; 1997
• Cathedral, Torre Civica and Piazza Grande, Modena — 1997
• Amalfi Coast — the scenic Campanian coast with its several villages — 1997
• Porto Venere, Cinque Terre, and their Islands (Palmaria, Tino and Tinetto) — 1997
• Residences of the Royal House of Savoy (Turin and its province) — The Savoyard palaces in Piedmont — 1997
• Su Nuraxi di Barumini, Sardinia — 1997
• Villa Romana del Casale, Piazza Armerina, Sicily — 1997
• Archaeological Area and the Patriarchal Basilica of Aquileia, Friuli-Venezia Giulia — 1998
• Cilento and Vallo di Diano National Park with the Archæological sites of Pæstum and Velia, and the Certosa di Padula — 1998
• Historic Centre of Urbino — 1998
• Villa Adriana (Tivoli) — Roman villa with its gardens — 1999

2000s

• Assisi, the Basilica of San Francesco d'Assisi and other Franciscan Sites — 2000
• City of Verona — 2000
• Isole Eolie (Aeolian Islands), Sicily — 2000
• Villa d'Este, Tivoli — The classic Renaissance villa, with beautiful water gardens — 2001
• Late Baroque Towns of the Val di Noto; eight towns in South-Eastern Sicily: Caltagirone, Militello in Val di Catania, Catania, Modica, Noto, Palazzolo Acreide, Ragusa and Scicli — 2002
• Sacri Monti of Piedmont and Lombardy — The several churches and religious centres in Lombardy; 2003
• Etruscan Necropolises of Cerveteri and Tarquinia — 2004
• Val d'Orcia — 2004
• Syracuse and the Rocky Necropolis of Pantalica, Sicily — 2005
• Genoa, Le Strade Nuove and the system of the Palazzi dei Rolli — 2006
• Rhaetian Railway, shared with Switzerland — 2008
• Mantua and Sabbioneta — 2008
• The Dolomites — The majestic mountains in Veneto and Trentino-Alto Adige/Südtirol — 2009

2010s

• Monte San Giorgio - Extension of the Italian border of Monte San Giorgio in Switzerland — 2010
• Longobards in Italy, Places of Power (568-774 A.D.) — 2011
• Prehistoric Pile dwellings around the Alps, shared with Austria, Germany, France, Slovenia, Switzerland — 2011

Gallery

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  The Palladian villas of the Veneto
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  Venice
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  Florence
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  The Piazza del Duomo, Pisa
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  The Royal Palace of Caserta
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  Naples
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  Castel del Monte
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  The Trulli
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  Modena Cathedral
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  Rome
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  Valle dei Templi
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  Amalfi Coast
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  Villa Adriana
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  Pompeii
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  Dolomites
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  Villa d'Este
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  Late Baroque Towns of Val di Noto
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  Necropolis of Pantalica