Italy has 43 recognized World Heritage sites and 50 registered on a proviisonal list.

This is a heritage that the Italian Commissioner for Unesco, Giovanni Puglisi, wants better protected and managed.

• 1979 Rock Drawings in Val Camonlca

• 1980 Milan, Church of S. Maria delle Grazie with "The Last Supper" by Leonardo da Vinci

• 1982 Fìorence, Historic Centre

• 1987 Vertice and its lagoon

• 1987 Pisa, Cathedral Square

• 1990 San Gìmignano, Historic Centre

• 1993 The Sassi and the Park of the Rupestrian Churches of Matera

• 1994 Vicenza and the Palladian villas of thè Veneto

• 1995 Siena, Historic Centre

• 1995 Naples, Historic Centre

• 1995 Crespi d'Adda, Historic Centre

• 1995 Ferrara, City of the Renaissance and its Po Delta

• 1996 Castel del Monte

• 1996 The Trulli of Alberobello

• i 996 Early Christian buildings in Ravenna

• 1996 Pienza, Historic Centre

• 1997 The Royal Palace at Caserta, the Park and the San Leucio complex

• 1997 Turin, The residences of the Savoy dynasty

• 1997 Padua, Botanical Garden

• 1997 Portovenere, Cinque Terre, and their Islands (Paìmaria, Tino and Tinetto)

• 1997 The Cathedral, Torre Civica and Piazza Grande, Modena

• 1997 Archaeological areas of Pompei, Herculaneum and Torre Annunzìata

• 1997 Amalfi Coast

• 1997 Archaeological area of Agrigento

• 1997 Piazza Armerina, Villa of Casale

• 1997 The Su Nuraxi complex in Barumini

• 1998 Cilento and Vallo di Diano National Park with the Archeeological sites of Passtum and Velia, and the Certosa di Padua

• 1998 Urbino, Hisforical Centre

• 1998 Patriarchal Basilica of Aquileia

• 1999 Vi'lla Adriana (Tivoli)

• 2000 The Aeolian Islands

• 2000 Assisi, 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 Etruscan Necropolises of Cerveteri and Tarquinia

• 2004 Val d'Orda

• 2005 Siracusa, Rocky Necropolis of Pantalica

• 2006 Genoa, le Strade Nuove and the System of the Palazzi dei Rolli

• 2008 Mantova e Sabbioneta

ITALY/VATICAN (THE HOLY SEE):

• 1990 Rome, historic centre and thè Properties of thè Holy See in that City Enjoying Extraterritorial Rights, and Basilica of Saint Paul Outside he Walls

ITALY/SWITZERLAND:

• 2008 Raetian Railway (shared with Switzerland)

Properties submitted on the Tentative List :

 

• Lake Maggiore and Lake D'Orta lakelands (2006)
• Historic centre of Pavia and Chartreuse (2006)
• The city of Bergamo (2006)
• Hanbury botanical gardens (2006)
• Historic Centre of Lucca (2006)
• Orvieto (2006)
• Via Appia "Regina Viarum" (2006)
• Villas of the Papal Nobility (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)
• 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)
• Arab-Norman Palermo and the cathedral churches of Cefalù’ and Monreale (2010)
• The Prosecco Hills of Conegliano and Valdobbiadene. (Le Colline del Prosecco di Conegliano e Valdobbiadene (2010)
• Mount Etna (2011)

source: Italy Photo Gallery