Title: List of World Heritage Sites in Italy Content: thumb|right|250px|The "Sassi" of Matera. thumb|right|250px|Urbino. thumb|right|250px|The Reggia di Caserta. Italy has the biggest number of UNESCO World Heritage Sites in the world. They have 53. Spain is second with 42. This article lists the 47 UNESCO World Heritage Sites in Italy. They are ordered by when they were added to the list. ==Order== ===1970s=== *Rock Drawings in Valcamonica — Rock drawings — 1979 ===1980s=== *Church and Dominican Convent of Santa Maria delle Grazie with the "Last Supper" by Leonardo da Vinci — A convent in Milan with the Renaissance Last Supper — 1980 *Historic Centre of Rome, the Properties of the Holy See, and Basilica of Saint Paul Outside the Walls; shared with the Holy See — 1980, 1990 *Historic Centre of Florence — 1982 *Piazza del Duomo, Pisa — The Medieval Piazza plus the leaning Tower of Pisa — 1987, 2007 *Venice and its lagoon — the city and the lagoon — 1987 ===1990s=== thumb|right|250px|The Baroque sites at Noto (Noto cathedral). thumb|right|250px|The rocky cliffs of the Cinque Terre in Liguria. *Historic Centre of San Gimignano — 1990 *The Sassi and the Park of the Rupestrian Churches of Matera — 1993 *City of Vicenza and the Palladian Villas of the Veneto — Most of the Renaissance Venetian villas built by Andrea Palladio — 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, Andria (Bari) — The Medieval castle in Apulia — 1996 *Early Christian Monuments of Ravenna — The many Paleochristian and Romanesque basilicas and buildings in the Emilian city — 1996 *Historic Centre of the City of Pienza — 1996 *The Trulli of Alberobello — The eccentric traditional houses of parts of Apulia; 1996 *18th century Royal Palace of Caserta with the Park, the Aqueduct of Vanvitelli and the San Leucio Complex — 1997 *Archaeological Area of Agrigento, Sicily — 1997 *Archaeological Areas of Pompeii, Herculaneum and Torre Annunziata — 1997 *Botanical Garden (Orto botanico di Padova), Padua — The oldest botanical garden in the world; 1997 *Cathedral, Torre Civica and Piazza Grande, Modena — 1997 *Amalfi Coast — the scenic Campanian coast with its several villages — 1997 *Porto Venere, Cinque Terre, and their Islands (Palmaria, Tino and Tinetto) — 1997 *Residences of the Royal House of Savoy (Turin and its province) — The Savoyard palaces in Piedmont — 1997 *Su Nuraxi di Barumini, Sardinia — 1997 *Villa Romana del Casale, Piazza Armerina, Sicily — 1997 *Archaeological Area and the Patriarchal Basilica of Aquileia, Friuli-Venezia Giulia — 1998 *Cilento and Vallo di Diano National Park with the Archæological sites of Pæstum and Velia, and the Certosa di Padula — 1998 *Historic Centre of Urbino — 1998 *Villa Adriana (Tivoli) — Roman villa with its gardens — 1999 ===2000s=== *Assisi, the Basilica of San Francesco d'Assisi and other Franciscan Sites — 2000 *City of Verona — 2000 *Isole Eolie (Aeolian Islands), Sicily — 2000 *Villa d'Este, Tivoli — The classic Renaissance villa, with beautiful water gardens — 2001 *Late Baroque Towns of the Val di Noto; eight towns in South-Eastern Sicily: Caltagirone, Militello in Val di Catania, Catania, Modica, Noto, Palazzolo Acreide, Ragusa and Scicli — 2002 *Sacri Monti of Piedmont and Lombardy — The several churches and religious centres in Lombardy; 2003 *Etruscan Necropolises of Cerveteri and Tarquinia — 2004 *Val d'Orcia — 2004 *Syracuse and the Rocky Necropolis of Pantalica, Sicily — 2005 *Genoa, Le Strade Nuove and the system of the Palazzi dei Rolli — 2006 *Rhaetian Railway, shared with Switzerland — 2008 *Mantua and Sabbioneta — 2008 *The Dolomites — The majestic mountains in Veneto and Trentino-Alto Adige/Südtirol — 2009 ===2010s=== *Monte San Giorgio - Extension of the Italian border of Monte San Giorgio in Switzerland — 2010 *Longobards in Italy, Places of Power (568-774 A.D.) — 2011 *Prehistoric Pile dwellings around the Alps, shared with Austria, Germany, France, Slovenia, Switzerland — 2011 ==Gallery== File:Villa Rotonda side(2).jpg|The Palladian villas of the Veneto File:Venedig rialtobruecke.jpg|Venice File:Ponte Vecchio.jpg|Florence File:Pisa - Campo Santo - Campanile 4 - 2005-08-08 17-30 4832.JPG|The Piazza del Duomo, Pisa File:Scala Reggia Casertana.jpg|The Royal Palace of Caserta File:Panorama serale.JPG|Naples File:Castel del Monte BW 2016-10-14 12-26-11 r.jpg|Castel del Monte File:Alberobello BW 2016-10-16 13-43-03.jpg|The Trulli File:Modena duomo.jpg|Modena Cathedral File:Pantheon novembre 2004.jpg|Rome File:Agrigente 2008 IMG 1863.JPG|Valle dei Templi File:Amalfi Coast 1.jpg|Amalfi Coast File:Villa adriana canopos.jpg|Villa Adriana File:Pompeji um 1900 strada fortuna.jpg|Pompeii File:Torri del Vaiolet.JPG|Dolomites File:Villadeste11252003.JPG|Villa d'Este File:Duomo di San Giorgio - Ragusa02.jpg|Late Baroque Towns of Val di Noto File:Nekropolis von Pantalica.jpg|Necropolis of Pantalica