User:Bamse/List of World Heritage Sites in Italy

The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) World Heritage Sites are places of importance to cultural or natural heritage as described in the UNESCO World Heritage Convention, established in 1972. Italy ratified the convention on June 23, 1978, making its historical sites eligible for inclusion on the list.

Sites in Italy were first inscribed on the list at the 3rd Session of the World Heritage Committee, held in Cairo and Luxor, Egypt in 1979. At that session, one site was added: the "Rock Drawings in Valcamonica". A total of 25, i.e. half of all Italian sites was added during the 1990s with 10 sites added at the 21st session held in Naples, Italy in 1997. As of July 2014, Italy has 50 total sites inscribed on the list, making it the country with most World Heritage Sites (followed by China with 47 sites). Of these four sites are shared with other countries: "Monte San Giorgio" and "Rhaetian Railway in the Albula / Bernina Landscapes" with Switzerland; "Historic Centre of Rome" with the Vatican; and "Prehistoric pile dwellings around the Alps" with Austria, France, Germany, Slovenia and Switzerland. Four World Heritage Sites in Italy are of the natural type, all others are cultural sites.

World Heritage Sites
The table lists information about each World Heritage Site:
 * Name: as listed by the World Heritage Committee
 * Location: city and region of site
 * Area: size of property and buffer zone
 * UNESCO data: the site's reference number; the year the site was inscribed on the World Heritage List; the criteria it was listed under: criteria i through vi are cultural, while vii through x are natural; (the column sorts by year added to the list)
 * Description: brief description of the site

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Tentative List
In addition to sites inscribed on the World Heritage list, member states can maintain a list of tentative sites that they may consider for nomination. Nominations for the World Heritage list are only accepted if the site was previously listed on the tentative list. As of 2014, Italy recorded 40 sites on its tentative list. The sites, along with the year they were included on the tentative list are:


 * 1) Lake Maggiore and Lake D'Orta lakelands (2006)
 * 2) Historic centre of Pavia and Chartreuse (2006)
 * 3) The city of Bergamo (2006)
 * 4) Hanbury botanical gardens (2006)
 * 5) Historic Centre of Lucca (2006)
 * 6) Orvieto (2006)
 * 7) Via Appia "Regina Viarum" (2006)
 * 8) Villas of the Papal Nobility (2006)
 * 9) Historic Centre of Parma (2006)
 * 10) Salento and the "Barocco Leccese" (2006)
 * 11) Cattolica Monastery in Stilo and Basilian-Byzantine complexes (2006)
 * 12) Ponds in the Bay of Oristano and the Sinis Peninsula island of Mal di Ventre (2006)
 * 13) Scrovegni's Chapel (2006)
 * 14) Fortress Town of Palmanova (2006)
 * 15) Romanesque Cathedrals in Puglia (2006)
 * 16) Monte Sant' Angelo and the Via Sacra Langobardorum (2006)
 * 17) Taormina and Isola Bella (2006)
 * 18) Archipelago of La Maddalena and Islands of Bocche di Bonifacio (2006)
 * 19) Mothia Island and Lilibeo: The Phoenician-Punic Civilization in Italy (2006)
 * 20) Bradyseism in the Flegrea Area (2006)
 * 21) Cascata delle Marmore and Valnerina: Monastic sites and ancient hydrogeological reclamation works (2006)
 * 22) Pelagos: The Cetacean Sanctuary (2006)
 * 23) Island of Asinara (2006)
 * 24) Sulcis Iglesiente (2006)
 * 25) The Marble Basin of Carrara (2006)
 * 26) The Transhumance: The Royal Shepherd's Track (2006)
 * 27) Volterra: Historical City and Cultural Landscape (2006)
 * 28) The Aniene valley and Villa Gregoriana in Tivoli (2006)
 * 29) The Murge of Altamura (2006)
 * 30) The Porticoes of Bologna (2006)
 * 31) Karstic caves in prehistoric Apulia (2006)
 * 32) Citadel of Alessandria (2006)
 * 33) The Lower Palaeolithic Palaeosurfaces at Isernia-La Pineta and Notarchirico (2006)
 * 34) Massif du Mont-Blanc (together with France and Switzerland) (2008)
 * 35) Arab-Norman Palermo and the cathedral churches of Cefalù’ and Monreale (2010)
 * 36) The Prosecco Hills of Conegliano and Valdobbiadene. (Le Colline del Prosecco di Conegliano e Valdobbiadene (2010)
 * 37) Parco Nazionale della Sila – Sila, gran bosco d’Italia (2012)
 * 38) Ivrea, industrial city of the 20th century (2012)
 * 39) Espace transfrontalier Marittime-Mercantour (Les Alpes de la Mer) (together with France) (2013)
 * 40) The Venetian Works of defence between 15th and 17th centuries (2013)