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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 […]