World Heritage Identification Number: 828
World Heritage since: 1998
Category: Cultural Heritage
Transboundary Heritage: No
Endangered Heritage: No
Country: 🇮🇹 Italy
Continent: Europe
UNESCO World Region: Europe and North America
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The Historic Centre of Urbino: A Renaissance Gem in the Marche Region
The Historic Centre of Urbino, nestled in the picturesque Marche region of Italy, stands as a testament to the rich cultural heritage and artistic flourishing that marked the Renaissance period. Inscribed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1998, this small hill town offers visitors a unique opportunity to immerse themselves in the remnants of an era that left indelible marks on European history and art.
More to come…UNESCO Description of the World Heritage Site
The small hill town of Urbino, in the Marche, experienced a great cultural flowering in the 15th century, attracting artists and scholars from all over Italy and beyond, and influencing cultural developments elsewhere in Europe. Owing to its economic and cultural stagnation from the 16th century onwards, it has preserved its Renaissance appearance to a remarkable extent.
UNESCO Justification of the World Heritage Site
Criterion (ii): During its short cultural pre-eminence, Urbino attracted some of the most outstanding humanist scholars and artists of the Renaissance, who created there an exceptional urban complex of remarkable homogeneity, the influence of which carried far into the rest of Europe.
Criterion (iv): Urbino represents a pinnacle of Renaissance art and architecture, harmoniously adapted to its physical site and to its medieval precursor in an exceptional manner.
Encyclopedia Record: Urbino
Urbino is a comune (municipality) in the Italian region of Marche, southwest of Pesaro, a World Heritage Site notable for a remarkable historical legacy of independent Renaissance culture, especially under the patronage of Federico da Montefeltro, duke of Urbino from 1444 to 1482.Additional Site Details
Area: 29.23 hectares
(iv) — Outstanding example of a type of building or landscape
Coordinates: 43.725 , 12.63333
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