UNESCO World Heritage Sites - Italy
Perhaps few people knows that two thirds of the world's historical artistic heritage are in Italy. The following Italian sites have been placed by UNESCO on its World Heritage List:

• 1979 - Rock Drawings in Valcamonica (Lombardy)

• 1980, 1990 -  Historic Centre of Rome, the properties of the Holy See in that city enjoying extraterritorial rights, and San Paolo fuori le Mura (Lazio)

• 1980 - Church and Dominican Convent of Santa Maria delle Grazie with "The Last Supper" by Leonardo da Vinci - Milano (Lombardy)

• 1982 - Historic Center of  Florence (Tuscany)

• 1987 - Venice and its Lagoon (Veneto)

• 1987 - Piazza del Duomo - Pisa (Tuscany)

• 1990 - Historic Center of San Gimignano (Siena, Tuscany)

• 1993 - I Sassi di Matera (Basilicata)

• 1994 - The City of Vicenza and the Palladian Villas (Veneto)

• 1995 - Historic Center of Siena (Tuscany)

• 1995 -  Historic Center of Naples (Campania)

• 1995 - Crespi d'Adda - Capriate (Lombardy)

• 1995 - Ferrara, City of the Renaissance and its Po Delta (Emilia-Romagna)

• 1996 - Castel del Monte - Bari (Apulia)

• 1996 -  The Trulli of Alberobello - Bari (Apulia)

• 1996 -  The Early Christian Monuments and Mosaics of Ravenna (Emilia-Romagna)

• 1996 -  The Historic Center of the town of Pienza (Siena, Tuscany)

• 1997 -  The 18th-Century Royal Palace at Caserta with the Park, the Aqueduct of Vanvitelli, and the San Leucio Complex (Campania)

• 1997 -  The Residences of the Royal House of Savoia (Piedmont)

• 1997 -  The Botanical Garden, Orto Botanico - Padua (Veneto)

• 1997 -  The Cathedral, Torre Civica and Piazza Grande - Modena (Emilia-Romagna)

• 1997 -  The Archaeological Areas of Pompei, Ercolano, and Torre Annunziata (Naples, Campania)

• 1997 -  Villa Romana del Casale - Piazza Armerina (Enna, Sicily)

• 1997 -  Su Nuraxi di Barumini, Cagliari (Sardinia)

• 1997 -  Portovenere, Cinque Terre, and the Islands  (Liguria)

• 1997 -  The Amalfi Coast, Costiera Amalfitana - Salerno (Campania)

• 1997 -  The Archaeological Area of Agrigento (Sicily)

• 1998 -  Cilento and Vallo di Adriano National Park with the Archeological sites of Paestum and Velia, and the Certosa di Padula (Salerno, Campania)

• 1998 -  Archaeological Area and the Patriarchal Basilica of Aquileia

• 1998 -  Historic Centre of Urbino (Marches)

• 1999 -  Villa Adriana (Tivoli - Lazio)

• 2000 -  City of Verona (Veneto)

• 2000 -  Isole Eolie (Aeolian Islands, Sicily)

• 2000 -  Assisi, the Basilica of San Francesco and other Franciscan sites (Umbria)

• 2001 -  Villa d'Este, Tivoli (Lazio)

• 2002 -  Late Baroque Towns of the Val di Noto (South-eastern Sicily)

• 2003 -  Sacri Monti of Piedmont and Lombardy  

• 2004 -  Val d' Orcia (Tuscany)

• 2004 -  Etruscan Necropolises of  Cerveteri and Tarquinia (Lazio)