UNESCO World Heritage sites in Italy

	1979 Rock Drawings in Valcamonica				1997 Cathedral, Torre Civica and Piazza Grande, Modena
	1980 Church and Dominican Convent of Santa Maria delle Grazie with "The Last Supper" by Leonardo da Vinci				1997 Archaeological Areas of Pompei, Herculaneum, and Torre Annunziata
	1982 Historic Centre of Florence				1997 Costiera Amalfitana
	1987 Venice and its Lagoon				1997 Archaeological Area of Agrigento
	1987 Piazza del Duomo, Pisa				1997 Villa Romana del Casale
	1990 Historic Centre of San Gimignano				1997 Su Nuraxi di Barumini
	1993 I Sassi di Matera				1998 Cilento and Vallo di Diano National Park with the Archeological sites of Paestum and Velia, and the Certosa di Padula
	1994 City of Vicenza and the Palladian Villas of the Veneto				1998 Historic Centre of Urbino
	1995 Historic Centre of Siena				1998 Archaeological Area and the Patriarchal Basilica of Aquileia
	1995 Historic Centre of Naples				1999 Villa Adriana (Tivoli)
	1995 Crespi d'Adda				2000 Isole Eolie (Aeolian Islands)
	1995 Ferrara, City of the Renaissance and its Po Delta				2000 Assisi, the Basilica of San Francesco and Other Franciscan Sites
	1996 Castel del Monte				2000 City of Verona
	1996 The trulli of Alberobello				2001 Villa d'Este, Tivoli
	1996 Early Christian Monuments of Ravenna				2002 Late Baroque Towns of the Val di Noto (South-eastern Sicily)
	1996 Historic Centre of the City of Pienza				2003 Sacri Monti of Piedmont and Lombardy
	1997 18th-Century Royal Palace at Caserta with the Park, the Aqueduct of Vanvitelli and the San Leucio Complex				2004 Val d'Orcia
	1997 Residences of the Royal House of Savoy				2004 Etruscan Necropolises of Cerveteri and Tarquinia
	1997 Botanical Garden (Orto Botanico), Padua				2005 Syracuse and the Rocky Necropolis of Pantalica
	1997 Portovenere, Cinque Terre, and the Islands (Palmaria, Tino and Tinetto)				2006 Genoa: Le Strade Nuove and the system of the Palazzi dei Rolli
					2006 Mantua and Sabbioneta
					2009 The Dolomites - mountain range in the northern Italian Alps
	Jointly with the Vatican / Holy See:
	1980, 1990 Historic Centre of Rome, the Properties of the Holy See in that City Enjoying Extraterritorial Rights, and San Paolo Fuori le Mura

The World Heritage List was established under terms of The Convention Concerning the Protection of the World Cultural and Natural Heritage adopted in November 1972 at the 17th General Conference of UNESCO.
The Convention states that a World Heritage Committee "will establish, keep up-to-date and publish" a World Heritage List of cultural and natural properties, submitted by the States Parties and considered to be of outstanding universal value.
One of the main responsibilities of this Committee is to provide technical co-operation under the World Heritage Fund for the safeguarding of World Heritage properties to States Parties whose resources are insufficient.
States Parties can request international assistance under the Fund for the preparation of tentative lists and nomination forms, expert missions, training of specialized staff, and supply of equipment when appropriate; they can also apply for long-term loans and, in special cases, non-repayable grants. Requests must concern work necessary for the preservation of cultural or natural sites included in the World Heritage List or assistance to national or regional training centres.
Emergency assistance is also available under the Fund in the case of properties severely damaged by specific natural or man-made disasters or threatened with imminent destruction.

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