The Lombardy is not only a region with a great productive vocation and center of important commercial and fair cities, but also a territory rich of history and culture, over that of interesting natural parks.
Its ancient traditions also reflect in the long list of sites protected by the UNESCO.
The art and the genius of Leonardo da Vinci are the “craftsmen” of the famous fresco of the Cenacle, protected by the UNESCO together with the Church of Saint Maria of the Graces for which was commissioned to the great artist in 1495.
The second important place protected by the UNESCO valorizes an important historical patrimony like that of the Val Camonica, famous for the rocky incisions, almost 300.000.
Still perfectly preserved, they are the testimony of the ancient population of the Camunis, already installed in Val Camonica8.000 years before Christ.
Another important testimony of the human presence is represented in the list of the sites UNESCO of the Lombardy by the industrial installation of Crespi d’Adda. 
Founded in 1878 by the textile entrepreneur Cristoforo Benigno Crespi, it is situated on the left bank of the river Adda in Capriate St. Gervasio, and it represents an ancient worker village already endowed with important structures as hospital, sport centre and theatre. In the list of the places UNESCO, the Lombardy shares instead with the near Piedmont the Sacred Mountains, groups of chapels and other architectural elements realized among the end of the XV and the XVII century and devoted to the Christian faith. Of the nine general, the Lombardy guards two of them. They are the Sacred Mount of the Rosary of Varese and the Sacred Mount of the Blessed Virgo of the Help of Ossuccio, respectively of 1598 and 1635. You could begin from here your visit to the wonder of the UNESCO in Lombardy, with a stop in the zone of the Lakes and in the city of Varese, recent center of the cycling world championships 2008.
Sonya Argelli
