SITI UNESCO IN PIEMONTE

LIST OF WHL WORLD HERITAGE SITES

The identification, protection, conservation and passing down to future generations of cultural and natural heritage across the world: this is one of UNESCO’s chief missions. Heritage refers to the legacy of our past, which we enjoy today and which we pass onto future generations. Our heritage, be it cultural or natural, is an irreplaceable source of life and inspiration. The Convention Concerning the Protection of the World’s Cultural and Natural Heritage, adopted by UNESCO in 1972, dictates that candidates may be added to the World Heritage List as “Cultural heritage”, “Natural heritage” and mixed cultural and natural sites.

Piedmont boasts 5 such sites:

• Residences of the Royal House of Savoy (1997)
• Sacri Monti of Piemonte and Lombardia (2003)
• Prehistoric pile dwellings around the Alps (2011)
• Vineyard Landscape of Piedmont: Langhe-Roero and Monferrato (2014)
• Ivrea, industrial city of the 20th century (2018)

INTANGIBLE CULTURAL HERITAGE

• Art of dry stone walling, knowledge and techniques (2018)
• Alpinism (2019)
• Musical art of horn players (2020)
• Truffle hunting and extraction in Italy, traditional knowledge and practice (2021)

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https://www.piemonteitalia.eu/en/cultura/unesco/siti-unesco-piemonte

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