UNESCO World Heritage in Italy

Open my heart and you will see engraved inside, "Italy". by Robert Browning. Italy has 55 sites included by UNESCO in the World Heritage List. That of World Heritage Site is the official name of these areas according to the Convention on World Heritage adopted by the General Conference of UNESCO on November 16, 1972. The purpose of this convention is to identify, according to specific criteria, areas, sites, and places that represent peculiarities of particular importance from a cultural, artistic, archaeological, environmental or landscape point of view. UNESCO World Heritage Sites Cultural (50) Sacri Monti of Piedmont and Lombardy (2003) 18th-Century Royal Palace at Caserta with the Park, the Aqueduct of Vanvitelli, and the San Leucio Complex (1997) Arab-Norman Palermo and the Cathedral Churches of Cefalú and Monreale (2015) Archaeological Area and the Patriarchal Basilica of Aquileia (1998) Archaeological Area of Agrigento (1997) Archaeological