× Information on this section of ECOLEX comes from the InforMEA Portal which compiled information from MEA Secretariats with the support of the European Union. The accuracy of the information displayed is the responsibility of the originating data source. In case of discrepancy the information as displayed on the respective MEA website prevails. Inscription: The Cilento and Vallo di Diano National Park with the Archealogical sites of Paestum and Velia and the Certosa di Padula (Italy) Document type Decision Reference number VIII.B.1 Date Nov 30, 1998 SourceUNEP, InforMEA Status Active Subject Wild species & ecosystems Treaty Convention concerning the Protection of the World Cultural and Natural Heritage (Nov 23, 1972) Meeting 22e session du Comité Website whc.unesco.org Abstract Property: The Cilento and Vallo di Diano National Park with the Archealogical sites of Paestum and Velia and the Certosa di Padula Id. N°: 842 State Party: Italy Criteria: C(iii)(iv) The Committee inscribed this site as a cultural landscape on the World Heritage List on the basis of criteria (iii) and (iv): Criterion (iii): During the prehistoric period, and again in the Middle Ages, the Cilento region served as a key route for cultural, political, and commercial communications in an exceptional manner, utilizing the crests of the mountain chains running east-west and thereby creating a cultural landscape of outstanding significance and quality. Criterion (iv): In two key episodes in the development of human societies in the Mediterranean region, the Cilento area provided the only viable means of communications between the Adriatic and the Tyrrhenian Seas, in the central Mediterranean region, and this is vividly illustrated by the relict cultural landscape of today.