What is World Heritage
According to the World Heritage Convention, cultural heritage are monuments, groups of buildings separate or connected buildings which, because of their architecture,
their homogeneity or their place in the landscape, are of outstanding universal
value from the point of view of history, art or science, sites works of man or the combined works of nature and man, and areas including archaeological sites which are of outstanding universal value from the historical, aesthetic, ethnological or anthropological point of view. Natural heritage are natural features consisting of physical and biological formations or groups of such formations, which are of outstanding universal value from the aesthetic or scientific point of view, geological and physiographical formations areas which constitute the habitat of threatened species of animals
and plants of outstanding universal value from the point of view of science or
conservation, natural sites areas of outstanding universal value from the point of view
of science, conservation or natural beauty.
Italian Sites in the World Heritage list
1979 Rock Drawings in Valcamonica
1980 Church and Dominican Convent of Santa Maria delle Grazie
1982 Historic Centre of Florence
1987 Venice and its Lagoon
1987 Piazza del Duomo, Pisa
1990 Historic Centre of San Gimignano
1993 The Sassi and the park of the Rupestrian Churches of Matera
1994 City of Vicenza and the Palladian Villas of the Veneto
1995 Historical centre of Siena
1995 Historical centre of Naple
1995 Crespi d'Adda
1995 Ferrara, City of the Renaissance
1996 Castel del Monte
1996 The Trulli of Alberobello
1996 Early Christian Monuments of Ravenna
1996 Historic Centre of the City of Pienza
1997 18th-Century Royal Palace at Caserta with the Park, the Aqueduct of Vanvitelli, and the San Leucio Complex
1997 Residences of the Royal House of Savoy
1997 Botanical Garden (Orto Botanico), Padua
1997 Portovenere, Cinque Terre, and the Islands (Palmaria, Tino and Tinetto)
1997 Cathedral, Torre Civica and Piazza Grande, Modena
1997 Archaeological Areas of Pompei, Herculaneum and Torre Annunziata
1997 Costiera Amalfitana
1997 Archaeological Area of Agrigento
1997 Piazza Armerina, La Villa del casale
1997 Su Nuraxi di Barumini
1998 Cilento and Vallo di Diano National Park with the Archeological sites of Paestum and Velia, and the Certosa di Padula
1998 Historic Centre of Urbino
1998 Archaeological Area and the Patriarchal Basilica of Aquileia
1999 Villa Adriana (Tivoli)
2000 Isole Eolie (Aeolian Islands)
2000 Assisi, the Basilica of San Francesco and Other Franciscan Sites
2000 City of Verona
2001 Villa d'Este, Tivoli
2002 Late Baroque Towns of the Val di Noto
2003 Sacri Monti of Piedmont and Lombardy
2004 Val d'Orcia
2004 Etruscan Necropolises of Cerveteri and Tarquinia
2005 Syracuse and the Rocky Necropolis of Pantalica
2006 Genoa: le Strade Nuove e il Sistema dei Palazzi dei Rolli
Italy/Holy See:
1980, 1990 Historic Centre of Rome, the Properties of the Holy See in that City Enjoying Extraterritorial Rights and San Paolo Fuori le Mura
Link
Official World Heritage Web Site
Official World Heritage Italian Web Site
Association of Italian Site in the World Heritage List
