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Prehistoric Pile Dwellings around the Alps

16 November 2011

The series of 111 out of the 937 known archaeological pile-dwelling sites in six countries around the Alpine […]

Longobards in Italy, Places of Power, 568 – 774 A.D.

The Longobards in Italy, Places of Power (568 – 774 A.D) comprises seven groups of important buildings (including […]

Syracuse and the Rocky Necropolis of Pantalica

06 May 2005

The site of Syracuse and the Rocky Necropolis of Pantalica on the Mediterranean coast of south-eastern Sicily consists […]

Etruscan Necropolises of Cerveteri and Tarquinia

06 May 2004

The property encompasses the two necropolisesof the Banditaccia and the Monterozzi, the most important cemeteries of the ancient […]

Villa Adriana (Tivoli)

06 May 1999

Villa Adriana is an exceptional architectural legacy of the great Roman Emperor Hadrian. Built as a retreat from […]

Cilento and Vallo di Diano National Park with the Archeological Sites of Paestum and Velia, and the Certosa di Padula

06 May 1998

Cilento is a cultural landscape of outstanding value that has evidence of human occupation dating from 250,000 years […]

Archaeological Area and the Patriarchal Basilica of Aquileia

Located at the northern end of the Adriatic Sea on the Natissa (Natiso) River, the property includes the […]

Piazza Armerina, Villa Romana del Casale

06 May 1997

Near Piazza Armerina (Sicily) the Villa Romana del Casale was built (on an earlier 2nd century settlement) in […]

Archaeological Area of Agrigento

The archaeological area of Agrigento, the Valley of the Temples, is on the southern coast of Sicily and […]

Su Nuraxi di Barumini

The archaeological site of Su Nuraxi di Barumini in Sardinia is the best-known example of the unique form […]

Pompeii, Herculaneum and Torre Annunziata

The World Heritage property includes three different archaeological areas: the ancient towns of Pompeii and Herculaneum together with […]

Rock Drawings in Valcamonica

05 May 1979

Valcamonica, situated in the mountainous area of the Lombardy region, has one of the world’s greatest collections of […]