UNESCO World Heritage Sites in Italy

Italy is home to 59 UNESCO World Heritage Sites. Of those, there are 53 cultural sites, 6 natural sites and 0 mixed sites. Italy shares 6 of those sites with other countries.

The World Heritage Sites in Italy are:

• Rock Drawings in Valcamonica

• Church and Dominican Convent of Santa Maria delle Grazie with “The Last Supper” by Leonardo da Vinci

• 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 Florence

• Piazza del Duomo, Pisa

  

• Venice and its Lagoon

  

• Historic Centre of San Gimignano

• The Sassi and the Park of the Rupestrian Churches of Matera

• City of Vicenza and the Palladian Villas of the Veneto

• Crespi d’Adda

• Ferrara, City of the Renaissance, and its Po Delta

• Historic Centre of Naples

• Historic Centre of Siena

• Castel del Monte

• Early Christian Monuments of Ravenna

• Historic Centre of the City of Pienza

• The Trulli of Alberobello

• 18th-Century Royal Palace at Caserta with the Park, the Aqueduct of Vanvitelli, and the San Leucio Complex

  

• Archaeological Area of Agrigento

• Archaeological Areas of Pompei, Herculaneum and Torre Annunziata

• Botanical Garden (Orto Botanico), Padua

• Cathedral, Torre Civica and Piazza Grande, Modena

• Costiera Amalfitana

• Portovenere, Cinque Terre, and the Islands (Palmaria, Tino and Tinetto)

• Residences of the Royal House of Savoy

• Su Nuraxi di Barumini

• Villa Romana del Casale

• Archaeological Area and the Patriarchal Basilica of Aquileia

• Cilento and Vallo di Diano National Park with the Archeological Sites of Paestum and Velia, and the Certosa di Padula

• Historic Centre of Urbino

• Villa Adriana (Tivoli)

• Assisi, the Basilica of San Francesco and Other Franciscan Sites

• City of Verona

• Isole Eolie (Aeolian Islands)

• Villa d’Este, Tivoli

• Late Baroque Towns of the Val di Noto (South-Eastern Sicily)

• Sacri Monti of Piedmont and Lombardy

• Monte San Giorgio

• Etruscan Necropolises of Cerveteri and Tarquinia

• Val d’Orcia

• Syracuse and the Rocky Necropolis of Pantalica

• Genoa: Le Strade Nuove and the system of the Palazzi dei Rolli

• Ancient and Primeval Beech Forests of the Carpathians and Other Regions of Europe

• Mantua and Sabbioneta

• Rhaetian Railway in the Albula / Bernina Landscapes

• The Dolomites

• Longobards in Italy. Places of the Power (568-774 A.D.)

• Prehistoric Pile Dwellings around the Alps

• Medici Villas and Gardens in Tuscany

• Mount Etna

• Vineyard Landscape of Piedmont: Langhe-Roero and Monferrato

• Arab-Norman Palermo and the Cathedral Churches of Cefalú and Monreale

• Venetian Works of Defence between the 16th and 17th Centuries: Stato da Terra – Western Stato da Mar

• Ivrea, industrial city of the 20th century

• Le Colline del Prosecco di Conegliano e Valdobbiadene

• The Great Spa Towns of Europe

• Padua’s fourteenth-century fresco cycles

• The Porticoes of Bologna

• Evaporitic Karst and Caves of Northern Apennines