World Heritage Site

A World Heritage Site is a place (such as a building, city, complex, desert, forest, island, lake, monument, or mountain) that is listed by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) as being of special cultural or physical significance.
The list is maintained by the international World Heritage Programme administered by the UNESCO World Heritage Committee, composed of 21 UNESCO member states which are elected by the General Assembly.
The programme catalogues, names, and conserves sites of outstanding cultural or natural importance to the common heritage of humanity.
Under certain conditions, listed sites can obtain funds from the World Heritage Fund.
The program was founded with the Convention Concerning the Protection of the World's Cultural and Natural Heritage, which was adopted by the General Conference of UNESCO on 16 November 1972.
Since then, 191 states parties have ratified the Convention, making it one of the most adhered to international instruments. Only Liechtenstein, Nauru, Somalia, South Sudan, Timor-Leste, and Tuvalu are not Party to the Convention.
As of July 2015, 1083 sites in 163 states parties.
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List of all World Heritage Site of Italy

1 - Rock Drawings in Valcamonica - Cultural, Italy-Europe and North America - 1979
2 - Church and Dominican Convent of Santa Maria delle Grazie with 'The Last Supper' by Leonardo da Vinci - Cultural, Italy-Europe and North America - 1980
3 - Historic Centre of Rome, the Properties of the Holy See in that City Enjoying Extraterritorial Rights and San Paolo Fuori le Mura 13 - Cultural, Italy-Europe and North America - 1980 - view photos of Rome
4 - Historic Centre of Florence - Cultural, Italy-Europe and North America - 1982 - view photos of Florence
5 - Piazza del Duomo, Pisa - Cultural, Italy-Europe and North America - 1987 - view photos of Pisa
6 - Venice and its Lagoon - Cultural, Italy-Europe and North America - 1987 - view photos of Venice
7 - Historic Centre of San Gimignano - Cultural, Italy-Europe and North America - 1990
8 - The Sassi and the Park of the Rupestrian Churches of Matera - Cultural, Italy-Europe and North America - 1993
9 - City of Vicenza and the Palladian Villas of the Veneto - Cultural, Italy-Europe and North America - 1994
10 - Crespi d'Adda - Cultural, Italy-Europe and North America - 1995 - view photos of Crespi d'Adda
11 - Ferrara, City of the Renaissance, and its Po Delta 14 - Cultural, Italy-Europe and North America - 1995
12 - Historic Centre of Naples - Cultural, Italy-Europe and North America - 1995 - view photos of Naples
13 - Historic Centre of Siena - Cultural, Italy-Europe and North America - 1995 - view photos of Siena
14 - Castel del Monte - Cultural, Italy-Europe and North America - 1996 - view photos of Castel del Monte
15 - Early Christian Monuments of Ravenna - Cultural, Italy-Europe and North America - 1996
16 - Historic Centre of the City of Pienza - Cultural, Italy-Europe and North America - 1996
17 - The Trulli of Alberobello - Cultural, Italy-Europe and North America - 1996 - view photos of Alberobello
18 - 18th-Century Royal Palace at Caserta with the Park, the Aqueduct of Vanvitelli, and the San Leucio Complex - Cultural, Italy-Europe and North America - 1997 - view photos of Royal Palace of Caserta
19 - Archaeological Area of Agrigento - Cultural, Italy-Europe and North America - 1997 - view photos of Valle dei Templi
20 - Archaeological Areas of Pompei, Herculaneum and Torre Annunziata - Cultural, Italy-Europe and North America - 1997
21 - Botanical Garden (Orto Botanico), Padua - Cultural, Italy-Europe and North America - 1997
22 - Cathedral, Torre Civica and Piazza Grande, - Cultural, Italy-Europe and North America - 1997 - view photos of Modena
23 - Costiera Amalfitana - Cultural, Italy-Europe and North America - 1997
24 - Portovenere, Cinque Terre, and the Islands (Palmaria, Tino and Tinetto) - Cultural, Italy-Europe and North America - 1997
25 - Residences of the Royal House of Savoy - Cultural, Italy-Europe and North America - 1997
26 - Su Nuraxi di Barumini - Cultural, Italy-Europe and North America - 1997
27 - Villa Romana del Casale - Cultural, Italy-Europe and North America - 1997
28 - Archaeological Area and the Patriarchal Basilica of Aquileia - Cultural, Italy-Europe and North America - 1998 - view photos of Aquileia
29 - Cilento and Vallo di Diano National Park with the Archeological Sites of Paestum and Velia, and the Certosa di Padula - Cultural, Italy-Europe and North America - 1998
30 - Historic Centre of Urbino - Cultural, Italy-Europe and North America - 1998 - view photos of Urbino
31 - Villa Adriana (Tivoli) - Cultural, Italy-Europe and North America - 1999
32 - Assisi, the Basilica of San Francesco and Other Franciscan Sites - Cultural, Italy-Europe and North America - 2000 - view photos of Assisi
33 - City of Verona - Cultural, Italy-Europe and North America - 2000 - view photos of Verona
34 - Isole Eolie (Aeolian Islands) - Natural, Italy-Europe and North America - 2000
35 - Villa d'Este, Tivoli - Cultural, Italy-Europe and North America - 2001
36 - Late Baroque Towns of the Val di Noto (South-Eastern Sicily) - Cultural, Italy-Europe and North America - 2002
37 - Sacri Monti of Piedmont and Lombardy - Cultural, Italy-Europe and North America - 2003
38 - Monte San Giorgio - Natural, Italy-Europe and North America - 2003
39 - Etruscan Necropolises of Cerveteri and Tarquinia - Cultural, Italy-Europe and North America - 2004
40 - Val d'Orcia - Cultural, Italy-Europe and North America - 2004
41 - Syracuse and the Rocky Necropolis of Pantalica - Cultural, Italy-Europe and North America - 2005
42 - Genoa: Le Strade Nuove and the system of the Palazzi dei Rolli - Cultural, Italy-Europe and North America - 2006 - view photos of Genua
43 - Mantua and Sabbioneta - Cultural, Italy-Europe and North America - 2008 - view photos of Mantua and Sabbioneta
44 - Rhaetian Railway in the Albula / Bernina Landscapes - Cultural, Italy-Europe and North America - 2008
45 - The Dolomites - Natural, Italy-Europe and North America - 2009
46 - Longobards in Italy. Places of the Power (568-774 A.D.) - Cultural, Italy-Europe and North America - 2011
47 - Prehistoric Pile dwellings around the Alps - Cultural, Italy-Europe and North America - 2011
48 - Medici Villas and Gardens in Tuscany - Cultural, Italy-Europe and North America - 2013
49 - Mount Etna - Natural, Italy-Europe and North America - 2013
50 - Vineyard Landscape of Piedmont: Langhe-Roero and Monferrato - Cultural, Italy-Europe and North America - 2014
51 - Arab-Norman Palermo and the Cathedral Churches of Cefalú and Monreale - Cultural, Italy-Europe and North America - 2015

Total sites found: 51