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Twenty-five Italian sites were added during the 1990s, including 10 sites added at the 21st session held in Naples in 1997. Italy has served as a member of the World Heritage Committee five times, 1978–1985, 1987–1993, 1993–1999, 1999–2001, and 2021–2025. [3] Out of Italy's 60 heritage sites, 54 are cultural and 6 are natural. [3]
Peter Thornton, The Italian Renaissance Interior 1400–1600. (New York: Abrams) 1991 "Cassone - Italian Renaissance Marriage Chest" in Eclectique, 23 September 2009. Helen Webberley, "Marriage, fertility and courtly love in Renaissance Italy: cassone" in Art and Architecture, mainly, 1 February 2011
Castello Orsini-Odescalchi is a castle in Bracciano, Lazio, Italy.It is located on the southern shore of Lake Bracciano.It was built in the 15th century, and combines the functions of a military defence structure and a civilian residence of the feudal lords of the period, the Orsini and Borgia, both papal families.
Masolino, Banquet of Herod, Castiglione Olona. In the first half of the 15th century, Lombardy was the Italian region where the International Gothic style had the greatest following, so much so that in Europe the expression ouvrage de Lombardie was synonymous with an object of precious workmanship, referring especially to the miniatures and jewelry that were an expression of an elitist ...
Truffle hunting and extraction in Italy, traditional knowledge and practice 2021 01395: Lipizzan horse breeding traditions + [g] 2022 01687: Transhumance, the seasonal droving of livestock + [h] 2023 01964: Transhumance is a type of pastoralism or nomadism, a seasonal movement of livestock between fixed summer and winter pastures.
Map of Italy and some of its major cities. The following is a list of Italian municipalities with a population over 50,000.The table below contains the cities populations as of 31 December 2021, [1] as estimated by the Italian National Institute of Statistics, [2] and the cities census population from the 2011 Italian Census. [3]
All large Italian cities have public libraries. Italy, a world centre of culture, history and art, has more than 3,000 museums. They contain, perhaps, the most important collections of artefacts from ancient civilizations. Taranto's museum, for example, offers material enabling scholars to probe deeply into the history of Magna Graecia.
This is a list of notable palaces in Italy, sorted by city. This article contains dynamic lists that may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by adding missing items with reliable sources .