Sources and licences

Wikidata

From Wikidata we take the list of places, their category, coordinates, municipality, date of construction, architectural styles, official website and any UNESCO World Heritage status. Wikidata is released into the public domain under CC0 1.0. Every place page links to its Wikidata item.

OpenStreetMap

From OpenStreetMap we take opening hours, entry fees, wheelchair access, address and contact details, plus some places not found on Wikidata. The data is available under the Open Database License (ODbL); see openstreetmap.org/copyright.

Map data and visitor information: © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Our maps also show OpenStreetMap data; the map tile provider is credited in the attribution on each map.

Wikipedia

Place descriptions are extracts from English Wikipedia on English pages and from Italian Wikipedia on Italian pages, reused under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 (CC BY-SA 4.0) licence. Each extract links to the original article, where you can find its authors in the page history. Derived texts remain available under the same licence. For many places we also show, besides the introduction, the article's own sections (for example "History" or "Description") with Wikipedia's original headings and a link to the full article. We do not summarise or invent them: if a section does not exist on Wikipedia, it does not appear. When there is no English article, we say so rather than show untranslated Italian text.

Wikimedia Commons

Photos come from Wikimedia Commons and are not copied to our servers: they are served directly by Wikimedia. Each image has its own licence (for example CC BY-SA 4.0, CC BY 4.0 or public domain), which we show on the place page together with the author's name and a link to the file page. The galleries on place pages use images from the place's Commons category, each with author and licence (see "Photo credits").

Wikivoyage

On town pages we show extracts from Wikivoyage, the free Wikimedia travel guide: an introduction to the town, how to get there and what to see. The text is licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0; each extract carries its attribution and a link to the original page, where the authors are listed. Extracts are not altered apart from layout. Most Wikivoyage articles on Italian towns are written in Italian, so some extracts on English pages may be in Italian.

Transport and distances

Stations, stops and car parks near a place come from OpenStreetMap (ODbL) and Wikidata. Distances are calculated by us as the crow flies from coordinates: they are not journey times or real routes. For train and bus timetables always check the operator.

UNESCO

Italy's World Heritage Sites and their names come from a list curated by hand from the UNESCO World Heritage Centre website (whc.unesco.org) and are matched to our places through Wikidata. A place is marked as a "UNESCO site" only if it is the site or one of its components; places inside the boundary of an inscribed historic centre are labelled separately. The UNESCO name and logo remain the property of the organisation.

Italian Ministry of Culture

The list of state sites with free entry on the first Sunday of the month comes from the official page cultura.gov.it/domenicalmuseo (in Italian); the rules on free and reduced entry come from the Agevolazioni page. We only reuse factual information (site name, municipality, region) and always link to the official source.

I Borghi più belli d'Italia (Most Beautiful Villages in Italy)

Membership of the I Borghi più belli d'Italia club is based on the list published in the Italian Wikipedia article "I borghi più belli d'Italia" (CC BY-SA 4.0). The official, up-to-date list is on the association's website. We are not affiliated with the association.

Our own content

Our guides and editorial texts list the sources consulted and the date they were last updated. Lists, counts and automatically generated texts come from the data described above. This site is not affiliated with the Italian Ministry of Culture, the Wikimedia Foundation, the OpenStreetMap Foundation or the operators of the places listed.

How to report an error

The most effective way is to fix the data at the source: the correction will appear here at the next site update, and it helps everyone.

• Name, category, coordinates, official website, date: edit the item on Wikidata (the "Wikidata" link on the place page).
• Opening hours, accessibility, address, entry fee: edit the feature on OpenStreetMap, or add a note on the openstreetmap.org map if you prefer not to edit directly.
• Description: improve the Wikipedia article, following its guidelines.
• Photo: upload a better photo to Wikimedia Commons and link it to the Wikidata item.
• Free first Sunday list: the Ministry of Culture page is the authoritative source.

For errors caused by our site (for example a place in the wrong region or an incorrect match between sources), send us the page address and a description of what is wrong by writing to [email protected].