World Heritage Sites in Italy

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Italy has 62 World Heritage Sites (56 cultural, 6 natural), the 1st most in the world. Hover over or tap a dot to see its name; click a name in the list to show it on the map. Listed by year of inscription.

• Rock Drawings in Valcamonica cultural · 1979
• Historic Centre of Rome, the Properties of the Holy See in that City Enjoying Extraterritorial Rights and San Paolo Fuori le Mura cultural · 1980 (shared with Vatican)
• Church and Dominican Convent of Santa Maria delle Grazie with “The Last Supper” by Leonardo da Vinci cultural · 1980
• Historic Centre of Florence cultural · 1982
• Venice and its Lagoon cultural · 1987
• Piazza del Duomo, Pisa cultural · 1987
• Historic Centre of San Gimignano cultural · 1990
• The Sassi and the Park of the Rupestrian Churches of Matera cultural · 1993
• City of Vicenza and the Palladian Villas of the Veneto cultural · 1994
• Historic Centre of Siena cultural · 1995
• Historic Centre of Naples cultural · 1995
• Crespi d'Adda cultural · 1995
• Ferrara, City of the Renaissance, and its Po Delta cultural · 1995
• Castel del Monte cultural · 1996
• The Trulli of Alberobello cultural · 1996
• Early Christian Monuments of Ravenna cultural · 1996
• Historic Centre of the City of Pienza cultural · 1996
• 18th-Century Royal Palace at Caserta with the Park, the Aqueduct of Vanvitelli, and the San Leucio Complex cultural · 1997
• Residences of the Royal House of Savoy cultural · 1997
• Botanical Garden (Orto Botanico), Padua cultural · 1997
• Portovenere, Cinque Terre, and the Islands (Palmaria, Tino and Tinetto) cultural · 1997
• Cathedral, Torre Civica and Piazza Grande, Modena cultural · 1997
• Archaeological Areas of Pompei, Herculaneum and Torre Annunziata cultural · 1997
• Costiera Amalfitana cultural · 1997
• Archaeological Area of Agrigento cultural · 1997
• Villa Romana del Casale cultural · 1997
• Su Nuraxi di Barumini cultural · 1997
• Archaeological Area and the Patriarchal Basilica of Aquileia cultural · 1998
• Historic Centre of Urbino cultural · 1998
• Cilento and Vallo di Diano National Park with the Archeological Sites of Paestum and Velia, and the Certosa di Padula cultural · 1998
• Villa Adriana (Tivoli) cultural · 1999
• City of Verona cultural · 2000
• Isole Eolie (Aeolian Islands) natural · 2000
• Assisi, the Basilica of San Francesco and Other Franciscan Sites cultural · 2000
• Villa d'Este, Tivoli cultural · 2001
• Late Baroque Towns of the Val di Noto (South-Eastern Sicily) cultural · 2002
• Sacri Monti of Piedmont and Lombardy cultural · 2003
• Monte San Giorgio natural · 2003 (shared with Switzerland)
• Val d'Orcia cultural · 2004
• Etruscan Necropolises of Cerveteri and Tarquinia cultural · 2004
• Syracuse and the Rocky Necropolis of Pantalica cultural · 2005
• Genoa: Le Strade Nuove and the system of the Palazzi dei Rolli cultural · 2006
• Ancient and Primeval Beech Forests of the Carpathians and Other Regions of Europe natural · 2007 (shared with Albania, Austria, Bosnia and Herz., Belgium and others)
• Rhaetian Railway in the Albula / Bernina Landscapes cultural · 2008 (shared with Switzerland)
• Mantua and Sabbioneta cultural · 2008
• The Dolomites natural · 2009
• Longobards in Italy. Places of the Power (568-774 A.D.) cultural · 2011
• Prehistoric Pile Dwellings around the Alps cultural · 2011 (shared with Austria, Switzerland, Germany, France and others)
• Mount Etna natural · 2013
• Medici Villas and Gardens in Tuscany cultural · 2013
• Vineyard Landscape of Piedmont: Langhe-Roero and Monferrato cultural · 2014
• Arab-Norman Palermo and the Cathedral Churches of Cefalú and Monreale cultural · 2015
• Venetian Works of Defence between the 16th and 17th Centuries: Stato da Terra – Western Stato da Mar cultural · 2017 (shared with Croatia, Montenegro)
• Ivrea, industrial city of the 20th century cultural · 2018
• Le Colline del Prosecco di Conegliano e Valdobbiadene cultural · 2019
• The Great Spa Towns of Europe cultural · 2021 (shared with Austria, Belgium, Czechia, Germany and others)
• Padua’s fourteenth-century fresco cycles cultural · 2021
• The Porticoes of Bologna cultural · 2021
• Evaporitic Karst and Caves of Northern Apennines natural · 2023
• Via Appia. Regina Viarum cultural · 2024
• Funerary Tradition in the Prehistory of Sardinia – The domus de janas cultural · 2025
• The system of Italian-style condominio theatres of the 18th and 19th centuries in Central Italy cultural · 2026

List from the UNESCO World Heritage Centre (to 2026). Each dot is the site’s reference point; sites spread over several places or countries get one dot.