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Itt. All 58 Sites UNESCO has designed as World Heritage in Italy.

Posted progressively.
#1 Rock Drawings in Valcamonica

The largest collection of petroglyphs in the world. 300 thousand of them have been found, so far.
#2 Church and Convent of Santa Maria delle Grazie in Milan with "The Last Supper" by Da Vinci
#3 Piazza dei Miracoli, Pisa.

Including Pisa Cathedral, it's Baptistry and the famous Leaning Tower of Pisa, its Bell Tower.
#4 The Medieval Town of San Gimignano
#5 Matera, the city built by excavating through the rock
#6 the Historical Centre of Rome and the Holy See

Including the Colosseum.
The Pantheon
The Roman Forum and its many individual monuments.
St. Peter's Basilica.
The Archbasilica of St. John Lateran.
St. Paul Outside the Walls.
And countless more monuments from the Roman Era, the Middle Ages and the Early Modern Period.

Rome has too rich a history to fully synthesize here.
#7 Historical Centre of Florence

Including Florence Cathedral.
The Basilica of Santa Croce.
The Uffizi and its many Masterpieces.
Palazzo Pitti and its many Masterpieces.
Palazzo Vecchio, and more.
#8 Old Venice and its Lagoon

Including Doge's Palace.
St. Mark's Basilica.
The Grand Canal and more.
#9 Vicenza and its Palladian Villas.

First a look at the city in general.
Then the Palladian Basilica and Villas.

2 examples out of 2 dozens.
#10 Historic Centre of Siena
Including Siena Cathedral.
#11 Historic Centre of Naples

First a look at the City in general
The the main Monuments

Naples Cathedral.
Castel Nuovo.
The Royal Palace.
Santa Chiara.
San Francesco di Paola and more.
#12 the Industrial Revolution Era Company Town of Crespi d'Adda

Its Cotton Mill in the last picture.
#13 the Medieval Town of Ferrara
#14 Castel del Monte
#15 The Trulli of Alberobello
#16 Early Christian Monuments of Ravenna

The best preserved Early Byzantine Era Monuments. Look at this other thread for details.
#17 The Renaissance City of Pienza
#18 the Royal Palace at Caserta
Including the Aqueduct of Vanvitelli and San Leucio.
#19 Residences of the Royal House of Savoy

Catalogued in this previous thread.
#20 Botanical Garden of Padua

The first in the world, founded in the mid 16th Century.
#21 Portovenere and the Cinque Terre,
#22 Modena Cathedral, Tower and Square
#23 Pompeii and Herculaneum
#24 The Amalfi Coast
#25 the Valley of the Temples
#26 Roman Villa del Casale
#27 Su Nuraxi

The largest of thousands of megalithic villages scattered throughout Sardinia, some of which over 6000 years old
#28 Aquileia, the Roman Town and the Patriarchal Basilica
#29 the Renaissance City of Urbino
#30 Paestum and Velia, the Certosa of Paula
#32 Villa Adriana
#33 Verona
#34 Aeolian Islands and Their Volcanoes
#35 Assisi and St. Francis' Basilica
#36 Villa d'Este's Gardens
#37 Baroque Towns of Val di Noto

A Pic for each, Caltagirone, Catania, Militello Val di Catania, Modica.
Noto, Palazzolo, Ragusa, Scicli.
#38 Holy Mountains of Piedmont and Lombardy, and their many Churches
#39 Val d'Orcia (yes, it's a real place I swear)
#40 Etruscan Necropolises of Cerveteri and Tarquinia
#41 Greek City of Syracuse and the Necropolis of Pantalica
#42 Genoa's Strade Nuove and Palazzi dei Rolli
#43 Rhaetian Railway between Italy and Switzerland
#44 The Renaissance Cities of Mantua and Sabbioneta
#45 the Dolomites
#46 Monte San Giorgio

Has the best fossil records from the Triassic Period.
#47 Longobard Sites

San Salvatore-Santa Giulia, Brescia.
Castelseprio Frescoes
San Salvatore Basilica
Clitumnus Temple

Santa Sofia
San Michele Sanctuary
#48 Prehistoric Pile dwellings around the Alps

Reconstruction of the first stable human settlements in the area
#49 Medici Villas
#50 Mount Etna
#51 Vineyard Landscape of Piedmont: Langhe-Roero and Monferrato
#52 Cefalù and Monreale Cathedrals
Also Palermo Cathedral.
#53 Ancient and Primeval Beech Forests of Europe
#54 Venetian Works of Defense

Including Palmanova
Bergamo and Peschiera del Garda.
#55 Ivrea, Industrial City of the 20th Century
#56 The Prosecco Hills of Conegliano and Valdobbiadene
#57 The Great Spa Towns of Europe

Montecatini Terme in particular.
#58 Bologna's Porticoes

An integral part of the city's architecture, there are over 50km/31 miles of them in there.

More than any other city in the world by a large margin.
#59 (sorry I missed #31 and messed up the numbers) Padua's fourteenth-century fresco cycles

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