val d'orcia
states: [italy]
category: cultural
year: 2004
location: Province of Siena, Tuscany
region: Europe and North America
latitude/longitude: 43.0666666700, 11.5500000000
last visited: 2023
unesco id: 1026
world heritage site: 1026
Val d’Orcia, a UNESCO World Heritage site in Italy, exemplifies a harmonious blend of Renaissance agricultural planning and picturesque Tuscan scenery. This cultural landscape features rolling hills, vineyards, olive groves, and medieval villages like Pienza and Montalcino, shaped by centuries of human cultivation. Its distinctive beauty, immortalized in art and literature, highlights an enduring relationship between people and nature.
