UNESCO World Heritage Site

Travel
by Silvia Donati |
33 residents, a handful of houses, a historic inn, unspoilt nature: this is Palmaria, a two-square-kilometer island in the Gulf of La Spezia, located right in…
Culture
by Silvia Donati |
The Rolli Days event returns to Genoa this weekend, May 28 and 29. It is the perfect chance to explore a side of this port city on the coast of Liguria, for…
Culture
by Silvia Donati |
Italy has the highest number of UNESCO World Heritage sites in the world (51), but are you familiar with all of them? Here are three impressive yet little-…
Travel
by Sandra Srivastava |
The year 2015 sees Pisa celebrate the 28th anniversary of the inclusion of the Piazza del Duomo in the list of UNESCO World Heritage Sites. Most day visitors…
Travel
by Silvia Donati |
“The most beautiful work of architecture ever seen”. This is how Le Corbusier, one of the most prominent architects of the 20th century, has described the…
Food & Drink
by Silvia Donati |
The grape cultivation technique used on the Sicilian island of Pantelleria to grow the prized Zibibbo grape was inscribed last week onto UNESCO’s World…
Culture
by Silvia Donati |
The southern city of Matera in Basilicata was picked last week as European Culture Capital 2019. Known as "la città sotterranea" (the Subterranean City),…
Lifestyle
by Silvia Donati |
Padua’s Botanical Garden – the world’s oldest and a UNESCO World Heritage Site – will be revamped and expanded thanks to a 20-million-euro project financed by…
Food & Drink
by Silvia Donati |
The vineyard landscapes of Langhe-Roero and Monferrato in Piedmont were inscribed on Sunday onto UNESCO's World Heritage List, bringing the number of Italian…
Culture
by Anonymous (not verified) |
To mark the 950th anniversary since construction began on the Pisa Cathedral, the Opera della Primaziale Pisana, the authority that oversees the Duomo Complex…