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59 Sites 3.43 Rating 31 TWHS 87 Former TWHS 31 WHC Member 606 Reviews

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  • ●● Cultural
  • ●● Natural
  • ●● Mixed
  • ●● Tentative

World Heritage Sites

SiteInscribedCategoryReviewsRating
Agrigento 1997 Cultural 8 3.82
Aquileia 1998 Cultural 8 3.19
Arab-Norman Palermo 2015 Cultural 8 3.79
Assisi 2000 Cultural 8 3.89
Botanical Garden, Padua 1997 Cultural 9 2.71
Castel del Monte 1996 Cultural 6 3.22
Cilento and Vallo di Diano 1998 Cultural 5 3.45
Costiera Amalfitana 1997 Cultural 6 3.95
Crespi d'Adda 1995 Cultural 6 2.32
Dolomites 2009 Natural 7 4.21
Etruscan Necropolises 2004 Cultural 9 3.59
Evaporitic Karst and Caves 2023 Natural 3 2.14
Ferrara 1995 Cultural 10 3.2
Florence 1982 Cultural 15 4.57
Genoa 2006 Cultural 7 2.93
Great Spa Towns of Europe 2021 Cultural 12 3.21
Isole Eolie 2000 Natural 7 3.74
Ivrea 2018 Cultural 5 1.88
Longobards in Italy 2011 Cultural 12 2.84
Mantua and Sabbioneta 2008 Cultural 7 3.25
Matera 1993 Cultural 7 3.92
Medici Villas and Gardens 2013 Cultural 7 3.03
Modena 1997 Cultural 11 2.92
Monte San Giorgio 2003 Natural 5 2.23
Mount Etna 2013 Natural 11 3.51
Naples 1995 Cultural 7 3.41
Padua’s fourteenth-century fresco cycles 2021 Cultural 10 4
Piazza del Duomo (Pisa) 1987 Cultural 14 3.84
Pienza 1996 Cultural 8 3
Pompei 1997 Cultural 8 4.45
Portovenere, Cinque Terre, and the Islands 1997 Cultural 11 3.98
Prehistoric Pile Dwellings 2011 Cultural 14 2.01
Primeval Beech Forests 2007 Natural 31 2.65
Ravenna 1996 Cultural 8 4.17
Residences of the Royal House of Savoy 1997 Cultural 11 2.95
Rhaetian Railway 2008 Cultural 7 3.2
Rock Drawings in Valcamonica 1979 Cultural 7 3.22
Rome 1980 Cultural 13 4.66
Royal Palace at Caserta 1997 Cultural 4 3.19
Sacri Monti of Piedmont and Lombardy 2003 Cultural 9 2.92
San Gimignano 1990 Cultural 10 3.74
Santa Maria delle Grazie 1980 Cultural 10 3.38
Siena 1995 Cultural 9 4.11
Su Nuraxi di Barumini 1997 Cultural 5 3.29
Syracuse 2005 Cultural 7 3.56
The Porticoes of Bologna 2021 Cultural 6 2.88
The Prosecco Hills 2019 Cultural 4 2.12
The trulli of Alberobello 1996 Cultural 7 3.43
Urbino 1998 Cultural 8 3.38
Val d'Orcia 2004 Cultural 10 3.13
Val di Noto 2002 Cultural 10 3.35
Venetian Works of Defence 2017 Cultural 9 2.89
Venice and its Lagoon 1987 Cultural 17 4.6
Verona 2000 Cultural 12 3.51
Vicenza and the Palladian Villas 1994 Cultural 10 3.28
Villa Adriana (Tivoli) 1999 Cultural 8 3.3
Villa d'Este 2001 Cultural 9 3.23
Villa Romana del Casale 1997 Cultural 12 3.91
Vineyard Landscape of Piedmont 2014 Cultural 6 2.78

Tentative List

SiteAddedScheduledCategoryReviewsRating
Archipelago of la Maddalena and Islands of Bocche di Bonifacio 2006 Natural 4 67%
Art and Architecture in the Prehistory of Sardinia. The domus de janas. 2021 Cultural 2 100%
Bradyseism in the Flegrea Area 2006 Natural 1 17%
Cascata delle Marmore and Valnerina: Monastic sites and ancient hydrogeological reclamation works 2006 Cultural 1 67%
Cattolica Monastery in Stilo and Basilian-Byzantine complexes 2006 Cultural 1 75%
Citadel of Alessandria 2006 Cultural 3 18%
Eocene Marine Biodiversity of the Alpone Valley 2021 Natural 0 100%
Hanbury botanical gardens 2006 Cultural 1 40%
Historical theatres of the Marche Region 2021 Cultural 1 0%
Island of Asinara 2006 Natural 1 100%
Karstic caves in prehistoric Apulia 2006 Cultural 1 50%
Lake Maggiore and Lake D'Orta lakelands 2006 Cultural 2 75%
Les Alpes de la Méditerranée (Italy) 2017 Natural 0 46%
Massif du Mont-Blanc 2008 Natural 0 75%
Mothia and Lilibeo Island: The Phoenician-Punic Civilization in Italy 2006 Cultural 2 86%
Nuragic monuments of Sardinia 2021 Cultural 1 100%
Orvieto 2006 Cultural 3 67%
Pelagos: The Cetacean Sanctuary 2006 Natural 0 0%
Salento and the Barocco Leccese 2006 Cultural 4 94%
Sulcis Iglesiente 2006 Natural 1 0%
The Aniene valley and Villa Gregoriana in Tivoli 2006 Cultural 2 45%
The Cultural Landscape of Civita di Bagnoregio 2017 Cultural 6 75%
The cultural landscape of the Benedictine settlements in medieval Italy 2016 Cultural 1 90%
The Marble Basin of Carrara 2006 Mixed 2 91%
The Murge of Altamura 2006 Mixed 2 60%
The system of the Ville-fattoria in Chianti Classico 2023 Cultural 0 100%
The Transhumance: The Royal Shepherd's Track 2006 Mixed 1 17%
Via Appia 'Regina Viarum' 2006 2024 Cultural 4 96%
Via Francigena in Italy 2019 2025 Cultural 3 26%
Villas of the Papal Nobility 2006 Cultural 2 77%
Volterra: Historical City and Cultural Landscape 2006 Cultural 2 84%

Former Tentative Sites

SiteAddedRemovedReviews
Alba Fucens 1982 1982 0
Alghero 1996 2005 0
Alps, a) Western Alps, b) Dolomites, c) Eastern Alps 2005 2006 0
Arch of Benevento 1984 1984 0
Archaeological area of Segesta 1984 1996 0
Archeological Park of Selinunte 1987 1987 0
Arcipelago Ponziano 2002 2005 0
Ascoli Piceno 1982 1982 0
Baia di Napoli con Capri, Ischia e Procida 1996 2005 0
Baptistery of Albenga 1984 1996 0
Baptistery of Cremona 1984 1996 0
Baptistery of Novara 1984 1996 0
Brera, Milan 1982 1982 0
Byzantine architecture of Torcello 1984 1990 0
Casamari Abbey 1984 1996 0
Castles of the Trentino 1984 1996 0
Cattedrale di Cefalu' e abitato storico 1998 2005 0
Centro storico di Cividale a tempietto longobardo 1995 2011 0
Complessi di culto romanici dell'Abruzzo 2002 2005 0
Costiere del Lago di Garda 1998 2003 0
Duomo di Milano 1996 2005 1
Faenza cathedral 1984 1984 0
Fascia costiera da Castellammare del Golfo a Trapani, con Erice, Mozia e la Isole Egadi 2002 2005 0
Fort de Bard 1982 1982 0
Fortezze dei Montefeltro 1996 2005 0
Fossanova abbey 1984 1996 0
Fossil Forest of Dunarobba 1997 1997 0
Galluzzo Monastery Florence 1984 1996 0
Gennargentu NP 1982 1982 0
Giotto e il Beato Angelico - Assisi e Cortona 1984 1997 0
Grotte di Castellana 1982 1982 0
Historic Centre of Lucca 2006 2021 1
Historic Centre of Parma 2006 2021 3
Historic centre of Pavia and Chartreuse 2006 2021 4
Il Castrum di Aosta 1984 1996 0
Itria valley 1982 1982 0
Locri 1982 1982 0
Massafra 1982 1982 0
Metaponte 1982 1982 0
Milan - Ospedale Maggiore (del Filarete) 1984 1996 0
Montecristo Island and its marine environment 1982 1982 0
Montepulciano, San Biagio 1984 1984 0
National Park of Abruzzo 2000 2000 0
Oasi di Ninfa 1996 2005 0
Ostia Antica, Porto di Roma + Isola Sacra 1987 1987 0
Otranto 1984 1985 0
Palermo, botanical garden and Monreale 1996 1996 0
Papal Residence of Anagni 1984 1996 0
Parco e Ville dei Castelli Romani (Colli Albani) 1996 2005 0
Parco Nazionale Del Gran Paradiso 1999 1999 0
Parco nazionale della Calabria 2011 2012 0
Parco Nazionale della Sila - Sila, gran bosco d'Italia 2012 2021 1
Parco Nazionale della Stelvio 1984 1996 0
Piazza maggiore, Todi 1982 1982 0
Piero della Francesca - Siena, Firenze, Borgo San Sepolcro 1984 1996 0
Pisticci 1982 1982 0
Pomponesco 1984 1996 0
Ponds in the Bay of Oristano and the Sinis Peninsula island of Mal di Ventre 2006 2021 1
Ponds of Cagliari 1982 1982 0
Port of Pyrgi 1984 1996 0
Promontorio del Gargano con Monte S.Angelo, Isole Tremiti e Foresta Umbra 2002 2005 0
Promontorio di Portofino con i centri storici di Camogli, S.Fruttuoso fino alla baia di Paraggi 1984 1999 0
Railway station Santa Maria Novella, Florence 1982 1982 0
Revere and Bozzolo 1984 1996 0
Riserva Bosco Fontana 1984 1996 0
Romanesque Cathedrals in Puglia 2006 2021 3
San Pellegrino Terme 1984 1999 0
Sanctuary of Fortuna, Palestrina 1984 1996 0
Santa Maria delle Carceri, Prato 1984 1984 0
Santuario rupestre di Olevano sul Tusciano 1996 2011 0
Santuario Sannitico di Pietrabbondante 1997 2003 0
Spoleto and Tempietto sul Clitunno 1995 2011 0
Taormina and Isola Bella 2006 2021 4
Tempio Malatestiano 1996 2005 0
Terracina 1984 1984 0
The city of Bergamo 2006 2021 3
The Lower Palaeolithic Palaeosurfaces at Isernia-La Pineta and Notarchirico 2006 2021 0
Thermal architecture of Arco 1984 1984 0
Thermal Architecture of Merano 1984 1996 0
Trani Cathedral 1984 1996 0
Tropea 1984 1996 0
Turin historic centre 1982 1982 0
Uccellina NP 1982 1982 0
Veio 1984 1996 0
Ville Vesuviane 1984 1996 1
Wine Grape landscapes: Langhe, Roero, Monferrato and Valtellina 2006 2012 0
Zone Carsiche: risorgenza del Timavo e Grotta Gigante 1996 2005 0

Country info

Official Name
Italy
Region
Europe and North America
WHC location
WHC member

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