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Villa Romana del Casale

Cultural World Heritage property in Italy, inscribed in 1997 under criteria (i), (ii), (iii).

Villa Romana del Casale, Italy
Photo: Berthold Werner · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
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State Party
Italy
Year of inscription
1997
Criteria
iiiiii
Area of property
0.3 ha
Location
Piazza Armerina
What it is
archaeological site, villa urbana
Visitors a year
227,371 (2022) · ranking
Official website
villaromanadelcasale.it/
Reference
WHC 832 · Wikidata Q505617

Why it is on the List

(i)A masterpiece of human creative genius.(ii)Shows a major exchange of ideas — in architecture, technology, art, town planning or landscape design — over time or across a cultural area.(iii)A unique or exceptional witness to a cultural tradition or a civilisation, living or vanished.
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