The 7 UNESCO World Heritage Sites in Tuscany

The 7 UNESCO World Heritage Sites in Tuscany | Val d’Orcia, Tuscany

The 7 UNESCO World Heritage Sites in Tuscany are The historic Center of Florence [since 1982], Piazza dei Miracoli in Pisa [since 1987], San Gimignano Historical Center [since 1990], the Historic Centre of Siena [since 1995], Pienza [since 1996], the Val d'Orcia [since 2004] and the Villas and Medici gardens in Tuscany [since 2013].
Val d'Orcia [since 2004]
The landscape of Val d’Orcia is part of the agricultural hinterland of Siena, redrawn and developed when it was integrated in the territory of the city-state in the 14th and 15th centuries to reflect an idealized model of good governance and to create an aesthetically pleasing picture. The landscape’s distinctive aesthetics, flat chalk plains out of which rise almost conical hills with fortified settlements on top, inspired many artists. Their images have come to exemplify the beauty of well-managed Renaissance agricultural landscapes. The inscription covers: an agrarian and pastoral landscape reflecting innovative land-management systems; towns and villages; farmhouses; and the Roman Via Francigena and its associated abbeys, inns, shrines, bridges, etc.[2]

Val d'Orcia	Cypress trees between San Quirico d'Orcia and Montalcino	San Quirico d'Orcia, Cappella della Madonna di Vitaleta

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Justification for Inscription Criterion (iv): The Val d’Orcia is an exceptional reflection of the way the landscape was re-written in Renaissance times to reflect the ideals of good governance and to create an aesthetically pleasing pictures. Criterion (vi): The landscape of the Val d’Orcia was celebrated by painters from the Siennese School, which flourished during the Renaissance. Images of the Val d’Orcia, and particularly depictions of landscapes where people are depicted as living in harmony with nature, have come to be seen as icons of the Renaissance and have profoundly influenced the development of landscape thinking.
CRITERIA USEFUL LINKS Official website of the UNESCO World Heritage Sites in Italy \| whc.unesco.org Traveling in Tuscany \| Complete list of the UNESCO World Heritage Sites in Tuscany [1] Photo by LigaDue, licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International license. [2] Source: UNESCO World Heritage Centre \| whc.unesco.org \| Description is available under license CC-BY-SA IGO 3.0
Other Unesco World Heritage Sites in Tuscany

The historic Center of Florence	Piazza del Duomo, Pisa	San Gimignano

The historic Center of Pienza	Medici Villa's and gardens	Historical center of Siena
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