Italy ratified the World Heritage Convention on 23 June, 1978. As of May 2010, it has 44 World Heritage Sites, more than any other country in the world. 42 of these properties are in the cultural category while two are in the natural category. Italy also has another 41 sites on the World Heritage Tentative List.
The Sassi and the Park of the Rupestrian Churches of Matera
City of Vicenza and the Palladian Villas of the Veneto
Crespi d'Adda
Ferrara, City of the Renaissance, and its Po Delta
Historic Centre of Naples
Historic Centre of Siena
Castel del Monte
Early Christian Monuments of Ravenna
Historic Centre of the City of Pienza
The Trulli of Alberobello
18th-Century Royal Palace at Caserta with the Park, the Aqueduct of Vanvitelli, and the San Leucio Complex
Archaeological Area of Agrigento
Archaeological Areas of Pompei, Herculaneum and Torre Annunziata
Botanical Garden (Orto Botanico), Padua
Cathedral, Torre Civica and Piazza Grande, Modena
Costiera Amalfitana
Portovenere, Cinque Terre, and the Islands (Palmaria, Tino and Tinetto)
Residences of the Royal House of Savoy
Su Nuraxi di Barumini
Villa Romana del Casale
Archaeological Area and the Patriarchal Basilica of Aquileia
Cilento and Vallo di Diano National Park with the Archeological sites of Paestum and Velia, and the Certosa di Padula
Historic Centre of Urbino
Villa Adriana (Tivoli)
Assisi, the Basilica of San Francesco and Other Franciscan Sites
City of Verona
Isole Eolie (Aeolian Islands)
Villa d'Este, Tivoli
Late Baroque Towns of the Val di Noto (South-Eastern Sicily)
Sacri Monti of Piedmont and Lombardy
Etruscan Necropolises of Cerveteri and Tarquinia
Val d'Orcia
Syracuse and the Rocky Necropolis of Pantalica
Genoa: Le Strade Nuove and the system of the Palazzi dei Rolli
Mantua and Sabbioneta
Rhaetian Railway in the Albula / Bernina Landscapes
The Dolomites
Sites in Italy on the World Heritage Tentative List
Lake Maggiore and Lake D'Orta lakelands (2006)
Historic centre of Pavia and Chartreuse (2006)
The city of Bergamo (2006)
Cividale and the Early Centres of Lombard Power in Italy (2006)
Hanbury botanical gardens (2006)
Historic Centre of Lucca (2006)
Orvieto (2006)
Via Appia "Regina Viarum" (2006)
Villas of the Papal Nobility (2006)
Palermo and Monreale Cathedral (2006)
Medici Villas (2006)
Historic Centre of Parma (2006)
Salento and the "Barocco Leccese" (2006)
Cattolica Monastery in Stilo and Basilian-Byzantine complexes (2006)
Ponds in the Bay of Oristano and the Sinis Peninsula island of Mal di Ventre (2006)
Scrovegni's Chapel (2006)
Fortress Town of Palmanova (2006)
Romanesque Cathedrals in Puglia (2006)
Monte Sant' Angelo and the Via Sacra Langobardorum (2006)
Taormina and Isola Bella (2006)
Alps: a) Western Alps, b) Dolomites, c) Eastern Alps (2006)
Monte San Giorgio (2006)
Archipelago of La Maddalena and Islands of Bocche di Bonifacio (2006)
Mothia Island and Lilibeo: The Phoenician-Punic Civilization in Italy (2006)
Bradyseism in the Flegrea Area (2006)
Cascata delle Marmore and Valnerina: Monastic sites and ancient hydrogeological reclamation works (2006)
Pelagos: The Cetacean Sanctuary (2006)
Wine Grape landscapes: Langhe, Roero, Monferrato and Valtellina (2006)
Island of Asinara (2006)
Sulcis Iglesiente (2006)
The Marble Basin of Carrara (2006)
The Transhumance: The Royal Shepherd's Track (2006)
Volterra: Historical City and Cultural Landscape (2006)
The Aniene valley and Villa Gregoriana in Tivoli (2006)
The Murge of Altamura (2006)
The Porticoes of Bologna (2006)
Karstic caves in prehistoric Apulia (2006)
Citadel of Alessandria (2006)
The Lower Palaeolithic Palaeosurfaces at Isernia-La Pineta and Notarchirico (2006)
Massif du Mont-Blanc (inscription comme patrimoine naturel transfrontalier, avec France et Suisse) (2008)
Prehistoric Pile Dwellings around the Alps (2009)
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