Archaeological Area of Agrigento
A World Heritage Site in Italy, inscribed in 1997 as a Cultural Site. This page summarises the key facts: inscription year, category and location.
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Key facts
- Country
- Italy
- Region
- Europe and North America
- Inscribed
- 1997
- Category
- Cultural Site
- Criteria
- (i)(ii)(iii)(iv)
- Property area
- approx. 934 ha
- Component parts
- 1
- Coordinates
- 37.2897, 13.5933
- UNESCO ID
- 831
Source: factual data from UNESCO DataHub (whc001 / CC BY-SA 4.0). This site uses only factual information such as names, countries, inscription years and categories. No official UNESCO/WHC descriptions, photographs or logos are used.
Names in other languages
- French
- Zone archéologique d’Agrigente
- Spanish
- Zona arqueológica de Agrigento
- Chinese
- 阿克里真托考古区
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