A new exhibition has opened in Rome offering people a unique opportunity to view all of Italy's 41 UNESCO World Heritage sites under the same roof.
Around 120 snaps by contemporary Italian photographers have gone on show at the Central National Library in the city in an effort to remind Italians of the hoard of sites across the country with internationally recognised cultural significance.
While many of the places themselves may be familiar, the works on show aim to present the nation's archaeological and architectural gems from unusual perspectives.
Among the more famous sites on display are the Leaning Tower of Pisa, captured by photographer Olivo Barbiere in a composition of geometric shadows, angles and lines, and Pompei, represented by Mimmo Jodice's photo of a shattered fresco of a woman wearing a garland of flowers and a fittingly shocked expression.
The woman's face has been split down through the nose and across the forehead from the force of the eruption of Vesuvius that devastated the ancient city in 79 AD.
Tourist favourite the Amalfi coast - admitted into the UNESCO list as an outstanding example of Mediterranean landscape with cultural and natural scenic values - is also here in a photo of a Ravello terrace overlooking a panoramic expanse of mountains, winding coastline, sea and cloud-streaked sky by Luciano Romano.
Less internationally well-known sites on display include the turrets and church spires of Marche hill town Urbino, snapped by world renowned Italian photographer Gianni Berengo Gardin, and a view over the conical tiled rooftops of the white limestone trulli of Alberobello in Puglia by Gabriele Basilico.
One of Italy's oldest World Heritage sites, the Bronze Age stone fort of Su Naraxi in Barumini, Sardinia, is shown in a low, surreal shot illuminated from behind by the sun by Dario Coletti.
Once the show ends in Rome, it will set off on a European tour via the network of Italian Cultural Institutes abroad, starting in Kiev and moving on to Odessa, Riga, Vilnius, Krakow and other cities still to be decided.
This year Italy is hoping to boost its World Heritage site list with the nomination of Mantua and the Gonzaga domains for cultural site status and the volcanic Regional Park of Campi Flegrei in Campania for natural site status.
Of Italy's 41 sites on the UNESCO list, almost all have qualified for reasons of outstanding cultural importance.
Only one - the Aeolian Islands off the northern coast of Sicily - has so far made it on to the list for its natural geographic significance.
Unescoitalia runs at the Central National Library in Rome until 14 March.
