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ITALY

TOURIST ATTRACTIONS: WHAT TO VISIT IN ITALY

 

Tourist attractions: Tourist attractions in Italy include historical cities (Rome, Florence, Venice, Neaples, Padua, Siena, Verona, Pisa, Ravenna etc) and villages; architecture, art and museums (Brunelleschi's Dome, Uffizi, Palazzo Vecchio, David of Michelangelo in Florence, Colosseum and Vatican City in Rome, Egyptian Museum in Turin, The Last Supper of Leonardo in Milan, St Mark’s Basilica and the Doge’s Palace in St Mark’s Square in Venice, the Leaning Tower in Pisa and many many others); beautiful countryside throughout the country (Alps, Chianti, beaches, Dolomiti, Volcanoes (Etna, Stromboli and Vesuvio), Val d'Orcia, Costiera Amalfitana, Cinque Terre etc); the big islands as Sicily and Sardinia and the little islands as Elba, Capri, Giglio, Eolie, Lampedusa etc. Italy is at the first place in the world in the UNESCO list of World Heritage Site, there are 44 Italian sites: The Dolomites (2009); Rock Drawings in Valcamonica (1979), Church and Dominican Convent of Santa Maria delle Grazie with "The Last Supper" by Leonardo da Vinci (1980), Historic Centre of Rome, the Properties of the Holy See in that City Enjoying Extraterritorial Rights and San Paolo Fuori le Mura (1980, 1990), Historic Centre of Florence (1982), Piazza del Duomo, Pisa (1987), Venice and its Lagoon (1987), Historic Centre of San Gimignano (1990), I Sassi di Matera (1993), City of Vicenza and the Palladian Villas of the Veneto (1994, 1996), Crespi d'Adda (1995), Ferrara, City of the Renaissance, and its Po Delta (1995, 1999), Historic Centre of Naples (1995), Historic Centre of Siena (1995),

Castel del Monte (1996), Early Christian Monuments of Ravenna (1996), Historic Centre of the City of Pienza (1996), The Trulli of Alberobello (1996), 18th-Century Royal Palace at Caserta with the Park, the Aqueduct of Vanvitelli, and the San Leucio Complex (1997), Archaeological Area of Agrigento (1997), Archaeological Areas of Pompei, Herculaneum and Torre Annunziata (1997), Botanical Garden (Orto Botanico), Padua (1997), Cathedral, Torre Civica and Piazza Grande, Modena (1997), Costiera Amalfitana (1997), Portovenere, Cinque Terre, and the Islands (Palmaria, Tino and Tinetto) (1997), Residences of the Royal House of Savoy (1997), Su Nuraxi di Barumini (1997), Villa Romana del Casale (1997), Archaeological Area and the Patriarchal Basilica of Aquileia (1998), Cilento and Vallo di Diano National Park with the Archeological sites of Paestum and Velia, and the Certosa di Padula (1998), Historic Centre of Urbino (1998), Villa Adriana (Tivoli) (1999), Assisi, the Basilica of San Francesco and Other Franciscan Sites (2000), City of Verona (2000), Isole Eolie (Aeolian Islands) (2000), Villa d'Este, Tivoli (2001), Late Baroque Towns of the Val di Noto (South-Eastern Sicily) (2002), Sacri Monti of Piedmont and Lombardy (2003), Etruscan Necropolises of Cerveteri and Tarquinia (2004), Val d'Orcia (2004), Syracuse and the Rocky Necropolis of Pantalica (2005), Genoa: Le Strade Nuove and the system of the Palazzi dei Rolli (2006), Mantua and Sabbioneta (2008), Rhaetian Railway in the Albula / Bernina Landscapes (2008).

Between the properties submitted on the Tentative List are: 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, 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 Asianara (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).  

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