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Capital: Rome
Area: 301.340 km2
Population: 60.4 millions (2017)
Language: Italian
Main airports:
Rome Fiumicino Leonardo da Vinci Airport (FCO)
Milan Malpensa Airport (MXP)
Milan Bergamo Orio al Serio Airport (BGY)
Venice Marco Polo Airport (VCE)
Milan Linate Airport (LIN)
Catania Fontanarossa Airport (CTA)
Naples Airport (NAP)
Bologna Guglielmo Marconi Airport (BLQ)
Palermo Falcone Borsellino Airport (PMO)
Pisa Airport (PSA)
List of UNESCO World Heritages Sites in Italy
- 18th Century Royal Palace of Caserta with the Park and the Aqueduct of Vanvitelli and the San Leucio Complex
- Arab Norman Palermo and the Cathedral Churches of Cefalu and Monreale
- Archaeological Area and the Patriarchal Basilica of Aquileia
- Archaeological Area of Agrigento
- Archaeological Area of Pompei, Herculaneum and Torre Annunziata
- Assisi, the Basilica of San Francesco and Other Franciscan Sites
- Botanical Garden of Padua
- Castel del Monte
- Cathedral, Torre Civica and Piazza Grande in Modena
- Church and Dominican Convent of Santa Maria della Grazie with “The Last Supper” by Leonardo da Vinci
- Cilento and Valle di Diano National Park with the Archaeological Sites of Paestum, Velia and the Certosa di Padula
- City of Verona
- City of Vicenza and the Palladian Villas of the Veneto
- Costiera Amalfitana
- Crespi d’Adda
- Early Christian Monuments of Ravenna
- Etruscan Necropolises of Cerveteri and Tarquinia
- Ferrara city of Renaissance and its Po Delta
- Genoa Le Strade Nuove and the system of Palazzi dei Rolli
- Historic Centre of Florence
- Historic Centre of Naples
- Historic Centre of Rome, the properties of the Holy See in that City Enjoying Extraterritorial Rights and San Paolo Fuori le Mura
- Historic Centre of San Gimignano
- Historic Centre of Siena
- Historic Centre of the City of Pienza
- Historic Centre of Urbino
- Isole Eolie (Aeolian Islands)
- Late Baroque Towns of the Val di Noto (South Eastern Sicily)
- Longobards in Italy. Places of the Power (568-774 A.D.)
- Mantua and Sabbioneta
- Medici Villas and Gardens in Tuscany
- Monte San Giorgio
- Mount Etna
- Piazza del Duomo in Pisa
- Portovenere, Cinque Terre and the islands of Palmaria, Tino and Tinetto
- Prehistoric Pile dwellings around the Alps
- Residences of the Royal House of Savoy
- Rhaetian Railway in the Albula / Bernina Landscapes
- Rock Drawings in Valcamonica
- Sacri Monti of Piedmont and Lombardy
- Su Nuraxi di Barumini
- Syracuse and the Rocky Necropolis of Pantalica
- The Dolomites
- The Sassi and the Park of the Rupestrian Churches of Matera
- The Trulli of Alberobello
- Val d’Orcia
- Venetian Works of Defence between 16th and 17th centuries: Stato da Terra – western Stato da Mar
- Venice and its Lagoon
- Villa Adriana (Tivoli)
- Villa d’Este (Tivoli)
- Villa Romana del Casale
- Vineyard Landscape of Piedmont: Langhe – Roero and Monferrato
- Primeval Beech Forests of the Carphatians and Other Regions of Europe
- Ivrea, industrial city of the 20th century
UNESCO Tentative List
- Arch of Trajan
- Archipelago of Maddalena and Islands of Bocche di Bonifacio
- Bradyseism in the Flegrea Area
- Cascata delle Marmore and Valnerina: Monastic sites and ancient hydro-geological reclamation works
- Cattolica Monastery in Stilo and Basilica Byzantine complexes
- Citadel of Alessandria
- Hanbury Botanical Gardens
- Historic Centre of Lucca
- Historic Centre of Parma
- Historic Centre of Pavia with Certosa
- Island of Asinara
- Carsic caves in prehistoric Apulia
- Lake Maggiore and Lake d’Orta lakelands
- Mothia Island and Lilibeo: The Phoenician Punic Civilization in Italy
- Orvieto
- Pelagos: The Cetacean Sanctuary
- Ponds in the Bay of Oristano and Sinis Peninsula Island of Mal di Ventre
- Romasnesque Style of Cathedrals in Apulia
- Salento and the “Barrocco Leccese”
- Scrovegni Chapel in Padua
- Sulcis and Iglesiente
- Taormina and Isola Bella
- The Aniene Valley and Villa Gregoriana in Tivoli
- The Lower Palaeolithic Palaeosurfaces at Isernia La Pineta and Notarchirico
- The Marble Basin of Carrara
- The Murge of Altamura
- The Porticoes of Bologna
- The Transhumance: “The Royal Shepherd’s Track” (Il Camino Reale)
- Via Appia “Regina Viarum”
- Villas of Papal Nobility
- Volterra Historical City and Cultural Landscape
- Border area of Mont Blanc (together with France and Switzerland)
- The Prosecco Hills of Conegliano and Valdobiaddene (Le Colline del Prosecco di Conegliano e Valdobiaddene)
- Prehistoric Site of Longola in Poggiomarino and Striano
- Sila National Park “Gran Bosco d’Italia”
- Border Area of Maritime Alps – “Les Alps de la Mer” (together with France)
- Great Spas of Europe
- Padova Urbs Picta. Giotto, the Scrovegni Chapel and the 14th century painting cycles
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