# UNESCO map: 62 properties, one shape each

> All 62 Italian World Heritage properties on one map, with the 8 that cross regional borders drawn as one property each rather than as scattered points.

URL: https://myitalia.it/map/unesco
Last updated: 2026-09-11

This map places all 62 Italian World Heritage properties and draws the 8 that cross regional borders as single properties, rather than as separate points in each region they touch.

## What the map shows

Italy has 62 properties on the World Heritage list in 2026: 56 cultural and 6 natural, with no mixed site.

54 of them lie within a single region, and 8 are transregional, with components in more than one. The six natural ones are the ancient beech forests, the evaporitic karst of the northern Apennines, the Aeolian Islands, Monte San Giorgio, Mount Etna and the Dolomites.

## Eight serial sites, drawn as one property

The largest of the eight is the ancient beech forests, with Italian components in 7 regions: Abruzzo, Basilicata, Calabria, Emilia-Romagna, Lazio, Puglia and Tuscany.

The others are the Sacri Monti of Piedmont and Lombardy, the Dolomites across 3 regions, the Longobards in Italy across 5, the prehistoric pile dwellings of the Alps across 5, the Venetian defense works across 3, the Via Appia across 4, and the Italian style theaters of central Italy, inscribed in 2026, across 3.

Counted region by region, the 62 properties make 86 pairs of site and region. Drawn as one shape each, they count once, and that's what this map does.

## How region totals are counted

Lombardy leads with 10 sites when every serial property counts in each region it touches, ahead of Tuscany and Veneto at 9 each.

Molise and the Aosta Valley are the only two regions with none. Assign each serial site to one lead region instead and the totals change, which is why the map shows the shapes and leaves the ranking to [UNESCO sites by region](/best/unesco-sites-by-region). See also [the two regions with no UNESCO site](/stories/the-two-regions-with-no-unesco-site).

## Where the regional lines come from

The regional attribution comes from the UNESCO office of the culture ministry, completed with Wikidata where the ministry's sheet is missing or vague, as for the Aeolian Islands, the Dolomites and Monte San Giorgio.

The two newest inscriptions, the domus de janas of Sardinia in 2025 and the theaters of central Italy in 2026, had no ministry sheet yet when the mapping was made. Their regions come from the listing itself. More on the list in [UNESCO in Italy](/themes/unesco).

## FAQ

### How many UNESCO World Heritage sites does Italy have?

62 in 2026: 56 cultural and 6 natural, with no mixed property. 54 of them sit inside a single region and 8 have components in more than one, which is why a region by region count adds up to more than 62.

### Which Italian regions have no UNESCO World Heritage site?

Two: Molise and the Aosta Valley. Molise includes part of the Abruzzo, Lazio and Molise National Park, but none of the listed ancient beech forests falls in its section of the park.

### Which UNESCO sites in Italy cross regional borders?

Eight: the ancient beech forests in 7 regions, the Longobards and the Alpine pile dwellings in 5 each, the Via Appia in 4, the Dolomites, the Venetian defense works and the central Italian theaters in 3 each, and the Sacri Monti in 2.

## Sources

| Fact | Source | Confidence | Valid until |
|---|---|---|---|
| L'Italia ha 62 proprieta' iscritte nella Lista del Patrimonio Mondiale UNESCO | [UNESCO World Heritage Centre](https://whc.unesco.org/en/statesparties/it) | medium | 2027-08-31 |
| 56 delle 62 proprieta' UNESCO italiane sono culturali | [UNESCO World Heritage Centre](https://whc.unesco.org/en/statesparties/it) | medium | 2027-08-31 |
| 6 delle 62 proprieta' UNESCO italiane sono naturali: Foreste di faggi, Carsismo evaporitico Appennino settentrionale, Isole Eolie, Monte San Giorgio, Monte Etna, Dolomiti | [UNESCO World Heritage Centre](https://whc.unesco.org/en/statesparties/it) | medium | 2027-08-31 |
| I 62 siti UNESCO italiani mappati sulla regione (o sulle regioni) che li ospitano: 54 ricadono in una sola regione, 8 sono transregionali (2026) | [UNESCO World Heritage Centre](https://whc.unesco.org/en/statesparties/it/); [Ministero della Cultura - Ufficio UNESCO](https://unesco.cultura.gov.it/projects/); [Wikidata (query SPARQL su P1435=Q9259, P17=Q38, P757, P131)](https://query.wikidata.org/sparql) | medium | 2027-08-31 |
| Otto dei 62 siti UNESCO italiani sono transregionali, cioe' hanno componenti in piu' di una regione (2026) | [UNESCO World Heritage Centre](https://whc.unesco.org/en/statesparties/it/); [Ministero della Cultura - Ufficio UNESCO](https://unesco.cultura.gov.it/projects/); [Commissione Nazionale Italiana per l'UNESCO](https://www.unesco.it/it/unesco-vicino-a-te/siti-patrimonio-mondiale/antiche-faggete-primordiali-dei-carpazi-e-di-altre-regioni-deuropa-sito-transnazionale-in-italia-13-faggete/) | medium | 2027-08-31 |
| Classifica delle regioni italiane per numero di siti UNESCO ospitati, contando ogni sito transregionale in tutte le regioni interessate: Lombardia 10, Toscana 9, Veneto 9 (2026) | [UNESCO World Heritage Centre](https://whc.unesco.org/en/statesparties/it/); [Ministero della Cultura - Ufficio UNESCO](https://unesco.cultura.gov.it/projects/); [Wikidata (query SPARQL su P1435=Q9259, P17=Q38, P757, P131)](https://query.wikidata.org/sparql) | medium | 2027-08-31 |
| Molise e Valle d'Aosta sono le uniche due regioni italiane senza alcun sito UNESCO del Patrimonio Mondiale (2026) | [UNESCO World Heritage Centre](https://whc.unesco.org/en/statesparties/it/); [Ministero della Cultura - Ufficio UNESCO](https://unesco.cultura.gov.it/projects/); [Wikidata (query SPARQL su P1435=Q9259, P17=Q38, P757, P131)](https://query.wikidata.org/sparql) | medium | 2027-08-31 |

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