The Cilen­to is an out­stand­ing cul­tur­al land­scape. The dra­mat­ic groups of sanc­tu­ar­ies and set­tleme…

The Amal­fi coast is an area of great phys­i­cal beau­ty and nat­ur­al diver­si­ty. It has been inten­sive…

Found­ed, accord­ing to leg­end, by Romu­lus and Remus in 753 BC, Rome was first the cen­tre of the Ro…

These two large Etr­uscan ceme­ter­ies reflect dif­fer­ent types of bur­ial prac­tices from the 9th to t…

When Vesu­vius erupt­ed on 24 August AD 79, it engulfed the two flour­ish­ing Roman towns of Pom­pei a…

Aquileia (in Friuli-Venezia Giu­lia), one of the largest and wealth­i­est cities of the Ear­ly Roman …

The eight towns in south-east­ern Sici­ly: Cal­t­a­girone, Militel­lo Val di Cata­nia, Cata­nia, Mod­i­ca, …

Roman exploita­tion of the coun­try­side is sym­bol­ized by the Vil­la Romana del Casale (in Sici­ly), t…

Opera house. The the­atre was orig­i­nal­ly known as the Nuo­vo Regio Ducale Teatro alla Scala. The pr…

The large amphithe­ater that housed 65000 spec­ta­tors in Roman days. Glad­i­a­tors bat­tled each oth­er …

Mount Etna&nbsp,is an icon­ic site encom­pass­ing 19,237 unin­hab­it­ed hectares on the high­est part of…

Found­ed as a Greek colony in the 6th cen­tu­ry B.C., Agri­gen­to became one of the lead­ing cities in …

The refec­to­ry of the Con­vent of San­ta Maria delle Gra­zie forms an inte­gral part of this archi­tect…

Val­ca­mon­i­ca, sit­u­at­ed in the Lom­bardy plain, has one of the world‘s great­est col­lec­tions of pre­hi…

Built on the site of an Etr­uscan set­tle­ment, Flo­rence, the sym­bol of the Renais­sance, rose to eco…

Twelve vil­las and two gar­dens spread across the Tus­can land­scape make up this site which bears te…

Found­ed in the 5th cen­tu­ry and spread over 118 small islands, Venice became a major mar­itime powe…

Stand­ing in a large green expanse, Piaz­za del Duo­mo hous­es a group of mon­u­ments known the world o…

When the Emper­or Fred­er­ick II built this cas­tle near Bari in the 13th cen­tu­ry, he imbued it with …

San Gimignano delle belle Tor­ri‘ is in Tus­cany, 56 km south of Flo­rence. It served as an impor­tan…

This is the most out­stand­ing, intact exam­ple of a troglodyte set­tle­ment in the Mediter­ranean regi…

Found­ed in the 2nd cen­tu­ry B.C. in north­ern Italy, Vicen­za pros­pered under Venet­ian rule from the…

Siena is the embod­i­ment of a medieval city. Its inhab­i­tants pur­sued their rival­ry with Flo­rence r…