Year: 2010

The Garden of Tarot

Discover Il Giardino dei Tarocchi in Capalbio, Italy: Gigantic mosaic sculptures of the figures on Tarot cards fill this colorful Tuscan garden.

Ninfeo di Villa Litta

Discover Ninfeo di Villa Litta in Lainate, Italy: An ancient artistic garden parlor full of hidden water wonders.

Villa Pisani Labirinto

Discover Villa Pisani Labirinto in Stra, Italy: A complex, nine-layer maze on the grounds of a Venetian doge's playground.

Passetto di Borgo

Discover Passetto di Borgo in Rome, Italy: The Pope’s secret escape route.

Medici Hall of Maps

Discover Medici Hall of Maps (Sala delle Carte Geografiche) in Florence, Italy: Over 50 exquisite hand-painted Renaissance maps decorate a Medici storage room.

The Protestant Cemetery

Discover The Protestant Cemetery in Rome, Italy: The final resting place of the poets Shelley and Keats.

San Bernardino alle Ossa

Discover San Bernardino alle Ossa in Milan, Italy: An ossuary built in 1210 to collect bones from the Ospedale Maggiore of Milan.

Santa Maria Novella Pharmacy

Discover Santa Maria Novella Pharmacy in Florence, Italy: The oldest operating pharmacy in the world features 800-year-old recipes.

Pyramid of Cestius

Discover Pyramid of Cestius in Rome, Italy: The only "Egyptian" pyramid in Europe and the legendary tomb of Remus.

The Aventine Keyhole

Discover The Aventine Keyhole in Rome, Italy: Rome's semi-secret peephole vista is also a former Crusader stronghold.

The Dome Illusion

Discover The Dome Illusion in Rome, Italy: A master of trompe-l'oeil creates a stunning, tourist-fooling dome out of a flat ceiling.

Mini-Paris

Discover Mini-Paris in Vaïssac, France: This miniature Paris, built out of trash, is one man's two decade labor of love.

Nantes’ Natural History Museum

Discover Nantes' Natural History Museum in Nantes, France: Home to the "Rat King" of Nantes and other wonders of the natural world.

Rove Tunnel

Discover Rove Tunnel in Marseille, France: Longest canal tunnel in the world, abandoned in the 1960s.

France Miniature Park

Discover France Miniature Park in Élancourt, France: France's Lilliputian park displays over 100 of the country's monuments for visitor perusal.

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To represent a masterpiece of human creative genius. 260 ii
To exhibit an important interchange of human values, over a span of time or within a cultural area of the world, on developments in architecture or technology, monumental arts, town-planning or landscape design. 474 iii
To bear a unique or at least exceptional testimony to a cultural tradition or to a civilization which is living or which has disappeared. 499 iv
To be an outstanding example of a type of building, architectural or technological ensemble or landscape which illustrates (a) significant stage(s) in human history. 633 ix
To be outstanding examples representing significant on-going ecological and biological processes in the evolution and development of terrestrial, fresh water, coastal and marine ecosystems and communities of plants and animals. 135 v
To be an outstanding example of a traditional human settlement, land-use, or sea-use which is representative of a culture (or cultures), or human interaction with the environment especially when it has become vulnerable under the impact of irreversible change. 167 vi
To be directly or tangibly associated with events or living traditions, with ideas, or with beliefs, with artistic and literary works of outstanding universal significance. (The Committee considers that this criterion should preferably be used in conjunction with other criteria). 252 vii
To contain superlative natural phenomena or areas of exceptional natural beauty and aesthetic importance. 148 viii
To be outstanding examples representing major stages of earth's history, including the record of life, significant on-going geological processes in the development of landforms, or significant geomorphic or physiographic features. 96 x
To contain the most important and significant natural habitats for in-situ conservation of biological diversity, including those containing threatened species of outstanding universal value from the point of view of science or conservation. 166

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