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Discover Italy
DISCOVER ITALY
Italy combines art, history and contemporary fashion with stunning
natural landscapes.
You can visit Roman ruins and wake up in the heart of the Roman Empire,
explore the canals of Venice, gaze at beautiful churches and stay in
tiny medieval hill towns. Naturally you can also indulge in the
pleasures of la dolce vita: good food, good wine and fashion.
Visit Italy, taking in Venice, Rome, Florence and in all other
Italian art cities, and the experience is yours.
Italian dreamy light and sumptuous landscapes seem made for romance, and
its three millennia of history, culture and cuisine seduces just about
everyone.
Few countries offer such variety and few visitors leave without a
fervent desire to return. The Italians are not joking when they call
their home "il Belpaese", the Beautiful Country.
UNESCO WORLD HERITAGE SITES IN ITALY
According to UNESCO, the United Nations' cultural branch, two thirds of
the world's historical artistic heritage are in Italy. Tuscany, which is
only one region of Italy, by itself possesses more artistic treasures
than the whole of Spain, which is the second country in the world for
cultural heritage. Practically all major styles of western architecture
can be found in Italy.
Properties inscribed on the World
Heritage List since the date of ratification of the Convention
(23 June 1978):
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Rock Drawings in Valcamonica (1979 )
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Historic Centre of Rome, the Properties of the Holy See in that City
Enjoying Extraterritorial Rights and San Paolo Fuori le Mura (1980 ,
1990 )
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Church and Dominican Convent of Santa Maria delle Grazie with "The
Last Supper" by Leonardo da Vinci (1980 )
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Historic Centre of Florence (1982 )
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Venice and its Lagoon (1987 )
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Piazza del Duomo, Pisa (1987 )
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Historic Centre of San Gimignano (1990 )
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Sassi di Matera (1993 )
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City of Vicenza and the Palladian Villas of the Veneto (1994 , 1996
)
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Historic Centre of Siena (1995 )
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Historic Centre of Naples (1995 )
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Crespi d'Adda (1995 )
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Ferrara, City of the Renaissance, and its Po Delta (1995 , 1999 )
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Castel del Monte (1996 )
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The Trulli of Alberobello (1996 )
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Early Christian Monuments of Ravenna (1996 )
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Historic Centre of the City of Pienza (1996 )
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18th-Century Royal Palace at Caserta, with the Park, the Aqueduct of
Vanvitelli, and the San Leucio Complex (1997 )
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Residences of the Royal House of Savoy (1997 )
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Botanical Garden (Orto Botanico), Padua (1997 )
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Portovenere, Cinque Terre, and the Islands (Palmaria, Tino and
Tinetto) (1997 )
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Cathedral, Torre Civica and Piazza Grande, Modena (1997 )
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Archaeological Areas of Pompei, Herculaneum and Torre Annunziata
(1997 )
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Costiera Amalfitana (1997 )
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Archaeological Area of Agrigento (1997 )
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Villa Romana del Casale (1997 )
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Su
Nuraxi di Barumini (1997 )
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Archaeological Area and the Patriarchal Basilica of Aquileia (1998 )
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Historic Centre of Urbino (1998 )
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Cilento and Vallo di Diano National Park with the Archeological
sites of Paestum and Velia, and the Certosa di Padula (1998 )
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Villa Adriana (Tivoli) (1999 )
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City of Verona (2000 )
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Isole Eolie (Aeolian Islands) (2000 )
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Assisi, the Basilica of San Francesco and Other Franciscan Sites
(2000 )
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Villa d'Este, Tivoli (2001 )
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Late Baroque Towns of the Val di Noto (South-eastern Sicily) (2002 )
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Sacri Monti of
Piedmont and Lombardy
(2003 )
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Val d'Orcia (2004 )
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Etruscan Necropolises of Cerveteri and Tarquinia (2004 )
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