Historic Centre of Rome, the Properties of the Holy See in that City Enjoying Extraterritorial Rights and San Paolo Fuori le Mura sight
Province of Roma, Lazio region (IT) / Vatican City State (VA), Italy
Founded, according to legend, by Romulus and Remus in 753 BC, Rome was first the centre of the Roman Republic, then of the Roman Empire, and it became the capital of the Christian world in the 4th century. The World Heritage site, extended in 1990 to the walls of Urban VIII, includes some of the ma...
Rock Drawings in Valcamonica sight
Province of Brescia, Lombardy, Italy
Valcamonica, situated in the Lombardy plain, has one of the world's greatest collections of prehistoric petroglyphs more than 140,000 symbols and figures carved in the rock over a period of 8,000 years and depicting themes connected with agriculture, navigation, war and magic.
Church and Dominican Convent of Santa Maria delle Grazie with "The Last Supper" by Leonardo da Vinci sight
Province of Milano, Lombardy, Italy
The refectory of the Convent of Santa Maria delle Grazie forms an integral part of this architectural complex, begun in Milan in 1463 and reworked at the end of the 15th century by Bramante. On the north wall is The Last Supper, the unrivalled masterpiece painted between 1495 and 1497 by Leonardo d...
Historic Centre of Florence sight
City and Province of Florence, Tuscany, Italy
Built on the site of an Etruscan settlement, Florence, the symbol of the Renaissance, rose to economic and cultural pre-eminence under the Medici in the 15th and 16th centuries. Its 600 years of extraordinary artistic activity can be seen above all in the 13th-century cathedral (Santa Maria del Fio...
Piazza del Duomo, Pisa sight
City and Province of Pisa, Tuscany, Italy
Standing in a large green expanse, Piazza del Duomo houses a group of monuments known the world over. These four masterpieces of medieval architecture the cathedral, the baptistry, the campanile (the 'Leaning Tower') and the cemetery had a great influence on monumental art in Italy from the...
Venice and its Lagoon sight
Province of Venezia, Veneto Region, Italy
Founded in the 5th century and spread over 118 small islands, Venice became a major maritime power in the 10th century. The whole city is an extraordinary architectural masterpiece in which even the smallest building contains works by some of the world's greatest artists such as Giorgione, Titian,...
Historic Centre of San Gimignano sight
Province of Siena, Tuscany, Italy
San Gimignano delle belle Torri' is in Tuscany, 56 km south of Florence. It served as an important relay point for pilgrims travelling to or from Rome on the Via Francigena. The patrician families who controlled the town built around 72 tower-houses (some as high as 50 m) as symbols of their wealt...
The Sassi and the Park of the Rupestrian Churches of Matera sight
City and Province of Matera, Region of Basilicata, Italy
This is the most outstanding, intact example of a troglodyte settlement in the Mediterranean region, perfectly adapted to its terrain and ecosystem. The first inhabited zone dates from the Palaeolithic, while later settlements illustrate a number of significant stages in human history. Matera is in...
City of Vicenza and the Palladian Villas of the Veneto sight
Provinces of Padua, Rovigo, Treviso, Venice, Verona and Vicenza, Veneto Region, Italy
Founded in the 2nd century B.C. in northern Italy, Vicenza prospered under Venetian rule from the early 15th to the end of the 18th century. The work of Andrea Palladio (150880), based on a detailed study of classical Roman architecture, gives the city its unique appearance. Palladio's urban bui...
Crespi d'Adda sight
Province of Bergamo, Lombardy, Italy
Crespi d'Adda in Capriate San Gervasio in Lombardy is an outstanding example of the 19th- and early 20th-century 'company towns' built in Europe and North America by enlightened industrialists to meet the workers' needs. The site is still remarkably intact and is partly used for industrial purp...
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