tempera on gesso, pitch and mastic (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Deutsch: Domodossola, Italien, Sacro Monte, Stazione VII. Italiano: Sacro Monte di Domodossola. Stazione 7. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Sacro Monte di Domodossola. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Sacro Monte di Crea. Cappella del Paradiso (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
English: Cathedral of Pisa (Duomo di Pisa), Pisa, Italy (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Chiesa di San Domenico – Noto (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Aquileia, Basilica patriarcale. Esterno. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Spagna, Spanish Steps, Spanische Treppe in Rom (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Italy gave the world masterpieces by Botticelli, Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo, Tintoretto and Caravaggio.
As well as the famous operas of Verdi and Puccini. The architecture of Venice, Rome and Florence are also national treasures.
People often ask me how I make my travel decisions. My travel decisions are always guided by UNESCO sites. My World Heritage Journeys now have an official website.
Coinciding with the European Heritage Days celebrations, UNESCO will launch the first-ever web platform dedicated to World Heritage and sustainable travel. Supported by the European Union, the platform features 34 selected World Heritage sites spread across 19 European Union countries, and it has been developed in collaboration with National Geographic.
http://whc.unesco.org/en/news/1879/
“World Heritage Journeys invites travelers to travel along four cultural heritage itineraries—Royal Europe, Ancient Europe, Romantic Europe and Underground Europe—which intertwine to tell fascinating stories of Europe’s heritage and history. The website has practical information and tools to support travelers in planning their European holidays based on local knowledge about the destinations’ cultural heritage.” World Heritage Journeys: www.visiteuworldheritage.com
My first bucket list World Heritage Journeys revolved around Italy. There are 49 Properties inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage List for Italy and I have seen them all:
5 Religious Sites
9 Natural Sites
8 Historical Sites
10 Archaeological Sites
17 Art Sites
UNESCO World Heritage Sites in Italy
Cultural
- 18th-Century Royal Palace at Caserta with the Park, the Aqueduct of Vanvitelli, and the San Leucio Complex (1997)
- Sacri Monti of Piedmont and Lombardy (2003)
- Archaeological Area and the Patriarchal Basilica of Aquileia (1998)
- Archaeological Area of Agrigento (1997)
- Archaeological Areas of Pompei, Herculaneum and Torre Annunziata (1997)
- Assisi, the Basilica of San Francesco and Other Franciscan Sites (2000)
- Botanical Garden (Orto Botanico), Padua (1997)
- Castel del Monte (1996)
- Cathedral, Torre Civica and Piazza Grande, Modena (1997)
- Church and Dominican Convent of Santa Maria delle Grazie with “The Last Supper” by Leonardo da Vinci (1980)
- Cilento and Vallo di Diano National Park with the Archeological Sites of Paestum and Velia, and the Certosa di Padula (1998)
- City of Verona (2000)
- City of Vicenza and the Palladian Villas of the Veneto (1994)
- Costiera Amalfitana (1997)
- Crespi d’Adda (1995)
- Early Christian Monuments of Ravenna (1996)
- Etruscan Necropolises of Cerveteri and Tarquinia (2004)
- Ferrara, City of the Renaissance, and its Po Delta (1995)
- Genoa: Le Strade Nuove and the system of the Palazzi dei Rolli (2006)
- Historic Centre of Florence (1982)
- Historic Centre of Naples (1995)
- Historic Centre of Rome, the Properties of the Holy See in that City Enjoying Extraterritorial Rights and San Paolo Fuori le Mura (1980)
- Historic Centre of San Gimignano (1990)
- Historic Centre of Siena (1995)
- Historic Centre of the City of Pienza (1996)
- Historic Centre of Urbino (1998)
- Late Baroque Towns of the Val di Noto (South-Eastern Sicily) (2002)
- Longobards in Italy. Places of the Power (568-774 A.D.) (2011)
- Mantua and Sabbioneta (2008)
- Medici Villas and Gardens in Tuscany (2013)
- Piazza del Duomo, Pisa (1987)
- Portovenere, Cinque Terre, and the Islands (Palmaria, Tino and Tinetto) (1997)
- Prehistoric Pile dwellings around the Alps (2011)
- Residences of the Royal House of Savoy (1997)
Palazzo Madama, Torino, Italy (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
- Rhaetian Railway in the Albula / Bernina Landscapes (2008)
- Rock Drawings in Valcamonica (1979)
- Su Nuraxi di Barumini (1997)
- Syracuse and the Rocky Necropolis of Pantalica (2005)
- The Trulli of Alberobello (1996)
- The Sassi and the Park of the Rupestrian Churches of Matera (1993)
- Val d’Orcia (2004)
- Venice and its Lagoon (1987)
- Villa Adriana (Tivoli) (1999)
- Villa d’Este, Tivoli (2001)
- Villa Romana del Casale (1997)
Castel del Monte, Andria. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Natural
- Isole Eolie (Aeolian Islands) (2000)
- Monte San Giorgio (2003)
- Mount Etna (2013)
- The Dolomites (2009)
Properties submitted on the Tentative List (41)
- Historic centre of Pavia and Chartreuse (2006)
- The city of Bergamo (2006)
- Hanbury botanical gardens (2006)
- Historic Centre of Lucca (2006)
- Orvieto (2006)
- Via Appia “Regina Viarum” (2006)
- Villas of the Papal Nobility (2006)
- Historic Centre of Parma (2006)
- Salento and the “Barocco Leccese” (2006)
- Cattolica Monastery in Stilo and Basilian-Byzantine complexes (2006)
- Ponds in the Bay of Oristano and the Sinis Peninsula island of Mal di Ventre (2006)
- Scrovegni’s Chapel (2006)
- Fortress Town of Palmanova (2006)
- Romanesque Cathedrals in Puglia (2006)
- Monte Sant’ Angelo and the Via Sacra Langobardorum (2006)
- Taormina and Isola Bella (2006)
- Archipelago of La Maddalena and Islands of Bocche di Bonifacio (2006)
- Mothia Island and Lilibeo: The Phoenician-Punic Civilization in Italy (2006)
- Bradyseism in the Flegrea Area (2006)
- Cascata delle Marmore and Valnerina: Monastic sites and ancient hydrogeological reclamation works (2006)
- Pelagos: The Cetacean Sanctuary (2006)
- Wine Grape landscapes: Langhe, Roero, Monferrato and Valtellina (2006)
- Island of Asinara (2006)
- Sulcis Iglesiente (2006)
- The Marble Basin of Carrara (2006)
- The Transhumance: The Royal Shepherd’s Track (2006)
- Volterra: Historical City and Cultural Landscape (2006)
- The Aniene valley and Villa Gregoriana in Tivoli (2006)
- The Murge of Altamura (2006)
- The Porticoes of Bologna (2006)
- Karstic caves in prehistoric Apulia (2006)
- Citadel of Alessandria (2006)
- The Lower Palaeolithic Palaeosurfaces at Isernia-La Pineta and Notarchirico (2006)
- Massif du Mont-Blanc (inscription comme patrimoine naturel transfrontalier, avec France et Suisse) (2008)
- Arab-Norman Palermo and the cathedral churches of Cefalù’ and Monreale (2010)
- The Prosecco Hills of Conegliano and Valdobbiadene. (Le Colline del Prosecco di Conegliano e Valdobbiadene (2010)
- Parco Nazionale della Sila – Sila, gran bosco d’Italia (2012)
- Ivrea, industrial city of the 20th century (2012)
- Espace transfrontalier Marittime-Mercantour (Les Alpes de la Mer) (2013)
- The Venetian Works of defence between 15th and 17th centuries (2013)
Deutsch: Innenaufnahme einer der Kapellen auf dem Sacri Monte d Orta.Dargestellt wird in lebensgrossen Figuren Szenen aus dem Leben des heiligen Franziskus. Die gesamte Anlage ist Teil der Sacri Monti, welche zum Unesco-Weltkulturerbe zählt. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Caserta, Reggia di Caserta. Appartamento nuovo del Re. Sala di Astrea. È una delle tre sale dell’Appartamento reale assieme alla Sala di Marte e alla Sala del Trono. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
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