 One of the main goals of the United Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) consists of identifying, protecting and safeguarding the cultural-artistic-historic human heritage in order to hand it down to posterity.
At the moment Italy is the nation with the majority of sites classified by the UNESCO. The organization has listed in the human heritage 5 sites in Sicily over 41 all over Italy. This 5 sites are:
- The archeological site in Agrigento, entered in 1997.
- Enna, Piazza Armerina, La Villa del Casale, entered in 1997
- The Aeolian Islands, entered in 2000
- The baroque towns in Noto Valley, entered in 2002
- Syracuse and the Pantalica rupestrian necropolis, entered in 2005
These sites belong to all the people of the world and they remind us our ancestors who have left us a sign of their presence. They teach us the importance of the historical memory and the past, from whom we can learn to avoid mistakes that have already been made.
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