Venice

UNESCO World Heritage Sites in Venice

4 UNESCO World Heritage Sites are in or near Venice.

UNESCO sites in Venice

• Venice and its LagoonCultural · 1987 · 1 km

  Founded in the 5th century and spread over 118 small islands, Venice became a major maritime power in the 10th century. The whole city is an extraordinary architectural masterpiece in which even the smallest building con…

• City of Vicenza and the Palladian Villas of the VenetoCultural · 1994 · 10 km

  Founded in the 2nd century B.C. in northern Italy, Vicenza prospered under Venetian rule from the early 15th to the end of the 18th century. The work of Andrea Palladio (1508–80), based on a detailed study of classical R…

• Padua’s fourteenth-century fresco cyclesCultural · 2021 · 35 km

  This property is composed of eight religious and secular building complexes, within the historic walled city of Padua, which house a selection of fresco cycles painted between 1302 and 1397 by different artists for diffe…

• Botanical Garden (Orto Botanico), PaduaCultural · 1997 · 36 km

  The world's first botanical garden was created in Padua in 1545. It still preserves its original layout – a circular central plot, symbolizing the world, surrounded by a ring of water. Other elements were added later, so…