Cathedral, Torre Civica and Piazza Grande, Modena1 UNESCO World Heritage Site  | | State Party |
Italy | | Type | Cultural | | Criteria | i, ii, iii, iv | | Identification no. | 827 | | Region2 | Europe and North America | | Inscription History | | Formal Inscription: | 1997 21st WH Committee Session | | WH link: | http://whc.unesco.org/en/list/827 | | 1 Name as officially inscribed on the WH List 2 As classified officially by UNESCO UNESCO (United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization) is a specialized agency of the United Nations established in 1945. ...
A UNESCO World Heritage Site is a specific site (such as a forest, mountain, lake, desert, monument, building, complex, or city) that has been nominated and confirmed for inclusion on the list maintained by the international World Heritage Programme administered by the UNESCO World Heritage Committee, composed of 21 State...
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A UNESCO World Heritage Site is a specific site (such as a forest, mountain, lake, desert, monument, building, complex, or city) that has been nominated and confirmed for inclusion on the list maintained by the international World Heritage Programme administered by the UNESCO World Heritage Committee, composed of 21 State...
This is a list of the UNESCO World Heritage Sites in Europe. ...
A UNESCO World Heritage Site is a specific site (such as a forest, mountain, lake, desert, monument, building, complex, or city) that has been nominated and confirmed for inclusion on the list maintained by the international World Heritage Programme administered by the UNESCO World Heritage Committee, composed of 21 State...
| The Torre della Ghirlandina or Torre Civica is the bell tower of the Cathedral of Modena, in Emilia-Romagna, Italy. The Cathedral with the Ghirlandina. ...
Emilia-Romagna is one of the 20 Regions of Italy. ...
Standing at 86.12 m, the tower is the traditional symbol of the city, being visible from each direction outside it. The strucutre was set up in 1179 on five floors, initially called Torre di San Geminiano. Reasons of rivalry with Bologna's towers had the commune add the characteristical octagonal cusp, designed by Arrigo da Campione, one of the numerous masters from Campione who took part in the cathedral's renovation in the 13th-15th centuries. The top of the tower is decorated with two ghirlande (two marble railings), whence the name. Bologna (IPA , from Latin Bononia, Bulåggna in the local dialect) is the capital city of Emilia-Romagna in northern Italy, in the Pianura Padana, between the Po River and the Apennines, exactly between the Reno River and the Sà vena River. ...
Map showing the location of the Campione enclave near the center. ...
In the interior, the Sala della Secchia room (with 15th century frescoes) is home of of a copy of the Secchia rapita depiction, a memory of the tower's former role as treasury of the Modenese commune. Also notable are the sculpted capitals in the Sala dei Torresani hall, in the fifth floor. And unique is the panorama enjoyable from the top. Aeolian Islands | Aquileia | Archaeological Area of Agrigento | Archaeological Areas of Pompeii, Herculaneum and Torre Annunziata | Botanical Garden, Padua | Caserta Palace, Aqueduct of Vanvitelli and San Leucio Complex | Castel del Monte | Cilento and Vallo di Diano with Paestum, Velia and Certosa di Padula | Costiera Amalfitana | Crespi d'Adda | Early Christian Monuments of Ravenna | Etruscan Necropolis of Cerveteri and Tarquinia | Ferrara and its Po Delta | Florence | Franciscan Sites of Assisi | I Sassi di Matera | Modena: Cathedral, Torre Civica and Piazza Grande | Naples | Palaces of Genoa | Piazza del Duomo, Pisa | Pienza | Portovenere, Cinque Terre, Tino | Residences of the Royal House of Savoy | Rock Drawings in Valcamonica | Rome (w/ Holy See) | Sacri Monti of Piedmont and Lombardy | San Gimignano | Santa Maria delle Grazie, Milan | Sicilian Baroque of Val di Noto | Siena | Su Nuraxi di Barumini | Syracuse with Pantalica | Trulli of Alberobello | Urbino | Val d'Orcia | Venice and its Lagoon | Verona | Vicenza and the Palladian Villas of the Veneto | Villa Adriana (Tivoli) | Villa d'Este, Tivoli | Villa Romana del Casale Image File history File links Flag_of_Italy. ...
Elabana Falls is in Lamington National Park, part of the Central Eastern Rainforest Reserves World Heritage site in Queensland, Australia. ...
The Aeolian Islands. ...
Aquileia (Friulian Aquilee, Slovene Oglej) is an ancient Roman town of Italy, at the head of the Adriatic at the edge of the lagoons, about 10 km from the sea, on the river Natiso (modern Natisone), the course of which has changed somewhat since Roman times. ...
San Lorenzo. ...
Pompeii is a ruined Roman city near modern Naples in the Italian region of Campania, in the territory of the commune of Pompeii. ...
Herculaneum (in modern Italian Ercolano) was an ancient Roman town, located in the territory of the current commune of Ercolano. ...
Torre Annunziata, population 52,875 (1991), is a city in the province of Naples, region of Campania in Italy. ...
The Botanical Garden of Padova (or Garden of the Simples) in a 16th century print; in the background, the Basilica of SantAntonio. ...
View from the gardens on Caserta Caserta Palace, near Naples was certainly the largest palace and probably the largest building erected in Europe in the 18th century. ...
San Leucio resort or San Leucio Complex In 1750 Charles VII of Naples selected this place for an unusual social and tecnological experiment, a different model of production based on technical innovation and alert to the needs of workers. ...
Castel del Monte. ...
Paestum overview. ...
Velia is an ancient town of Lucania (present Basilicata), Italy, on the hill now crowned by the medieval castle of Castellainmare della Bruca, 440 ft. ...
The Certosa di Padula, also known as Carthusian Monastery of Padula or Chartreuse of Padula or or , is a large famous Carthusian monastery in the Cilento National Park near Salerno in Southern Italy. ...
The Amalfi Coast The Amalfi Coast, or Costiera Amalfitana in Italian, is a stretch of coastline on the southern side of the Sorrentine Peninsula of Italy (Province of Salerno) extending from Positano in the west to Vietri sul Mare in the east. ...
The Crespi factory Crespi dAdda is a worker village in Italy founded in the 19th century. ...
Ravenna is a city and commune in the Emilia-Romagna region of Italy. ...
A small town located approximately 60 miles N of Rome. ...
Tarquinia, formerly Corneto and in Antiquity Tarquinii, is an ancient city in the province of Viterbo, Lazio, Italy. ...
Ferrara is a city in Emilia-Romagna, Italy, capital city of the province of Ferrara. ...
Florences skyline Florences skyline at night from Piazza Michaelangelo Florence (Italian: ) is the capital city of the region of Tuscany, Italy. ...
This article is about the Italian town. ...
A street corner in the ancient Sassi di Matera as it looks today. ...
Modena (Mòdna in Modenese dialect) is a city and a province on the south side of the Po valley, in Emilia-Romagna, Italy. ...
The Cathedrals façade The Duomo (Cathedral) of Modena, in Italy, is one of the most outstanding Romanesque building of Europe and has been included in the UNESCO list of World Heritage Sites. ...
The Bay of Naples Naples (Italian: , Neapolitan: Nà pule, from Greek ÎεάÏολη < ÎÎα Î ÏÎ»Î¹Ï Néa Pólis New City) is the largest city in southern Italy and capital of the Campania region and the Province of Naples. ...
Genoa (Genova in Italian - Zena in Genoese) is a city and a seaport in northern Italy, the capital of the Province of Genoa and of the region of Liguria. ...
The Campo dei Miracoli (Field of Miracles) is a wide, walled area at the heart of the city of Pisa, Tuscany, Italy, recognized as one of the main centers for medieval art in the world. ...
Pienza is town and commune in the province of Siena, in the Val dOrcia in Tuscany (central Italy), between the towns of Montepulciano and Montalcino. ...
Portovenere is a village in Liguria, Italy located 12km from La Spezia. ...
Manarola, one of the five coastal villages in the National Park of the Cinque Terre. ...
Tino The Italian island of Tino is situated in the Ligurian Sea, at the westernmost end of the Gulf of La Spezia. ...
The Residences of the Royal House of Savoy is a World Heritage Site in the Province of Torino, Italy (1997), which includes the following patrimonies: Palazzo Carignano. ...
Val Camonica is a valley in the lower Alpine regions of Lombardy, Italy. ...
Nickname: The Eternal City Motto: SPQR: Senatus PopulusQue Romanus Location of the city of Rome (yellow) within the Province of Rome (red) and region of Lazio (grey) Coordinates: Region Lazio Province Province of Rome Founded 21 April 753 BC - Mayor Walter Veltroni Area - City 1285 km² (580 sq mi) - Urban...
The Sacri Monti of Piedmont and Lombardy are a World Heritage site in Northern Italy. ...
San Gimignano. ...
Santa Maria delle Grazie is a Renaissance church in Milan built by Guiniforte Solari between 1466 and 1490 on a commission by Dominican monks. ...
Illustration 1: Sicilian Baroque. ...
Val di Noto (English: Valley of Noto) is a geographical area of south east Sicily; it is dominated by the limestone Iblean plateau. ...
Siena is a city in Tuscany, Italy. ...
Su Nuraxi, Barumini, Sardinia Central tower of the Nuraghe at Saint Antine of Torralba Su Nurraxi. ...
Map of central Mediterranean Sea, showing location of Syracuse on the island of Sicily. ...
The Necropolis of Pantalica is a large necropolis in Sicily with about 5000 tombs dating from the 13th to the 7th centuries BC. Pantalica is situated in the valleys of the rivers Anapo and Calcinara, between the towns of Ferla and Sortino in south-eastern Sicily. ...
Trulli roofs from Alberobello. ...
Alberobello is a small town in the province of Bari, in Puglia, Italy. ...
Panorama of Urbino with the cathedral and the palazzo ducale Urbino is a city in the Marche in Italy, southwest of Pesaro, a World Heritage Site with a great cultural history during the Renaissance as the seat of Federico da Montefeltro. ...
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Venice (Italian: Venezia, Venetian: Venezsia) is the capital of region Veneto, and has a population of 271,663 (census estimate January 1, 2004). ...
Verona is an ancient town, episcopal see, and province in Veneto, Northern Italy. ...
Vicenza is a city in northern Italy, is the capital of the eponymous province in the Veneto region, at the northern base of the Monti Berici, straddling the Bacchiglione. ...
City of Vicenza and the Palladian Villas of the Veneto is a cluster of works by Andrea Palladio and his disciples which were inscribed on the World Heritage List in 1994 and expanded two years later. ...
The villas recreation of Canopus, a resort near Alexandria, as seen from the temple of Serapis Theatrical masks of Tragedy and Comedy in refined mosaic, from the villa (Capitoline Museum, Rome) The Villa of the Emperor Hadrian at Tivoli, Italy, even in ruined condition is one of the most...
Park of the Villa dEste, Carl Blechen, 1830 The gardens at the Villa dEste The Villa dEste is a masterpiece of Italian architecture and garden design. ...
The Villa Romana del Casale is an excavated Roman villa containing some of the best examples of Roman mosaics in their original settings in the world. ...
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