Leonardo da Vinci

Connected Sites: 12

WHS connected to life and/or work of Leonardo da Vinci.

Connected Sites

  • Vatican City
    Inscribed: 1984
    4.30
    613
    9
    Lived in the Belvedere
  • Venice and its Lagoon
    Inscribed: 1987
    4.52
    611
    19
    Fled there in 1499
  • Mantua and Sabbioneta
    Inscribed: 2008
    3.18
    194
    7
    Mantua: journeyed there
  • Urbino
    Urbino
    Italy
    Inscribed: 1998
    3.27
    185
    8
    Lived there; "The walls were rebuilt according to the designs of Leonardo da Vinci" (AB ev)
  • San Cristobal de La Laguna
    Inscribed: 1999
    2.59
    151
    6
    City plan based on a design by him: "In 1502, a regular town plan based on Leonardo da Vinci's model for Imola was drawn up by the Captain General (Adelantado) for the area." (AB ev)
  • Rome
    Rome
    Holy See, Italy
    Inscribed: 1980
    4.57
    662
    13
    Worked there as an artist
  • Santa Maria delle Grazie
    Inscribed: 1980
    3.40
    291
    10
    Painted The Last Supper
  • Paris, Banks of the Seine
    Inscribed: 1991
    4.19
    681
    20
    Painted the Mona Lisa, now at the Louvre museum
  • Loire Valley
    Inscribed: 2000
    4.09
    293
    10
    Chambord: "There are suggestions that Leonardo da Vinci may have designed the staircase, but this has not been confirmed." (wiki); Was buried in the castle of Amboise and lived in the castle Clos-Luc.
  • Kraków
    Kraków
    Poland
    Inscribed: 1978
    4.02
    438
    19
    Painted "The Lady With An Ermine" (now in Czartoryski Museum)
  • Istanbul
    Istanbul
    Turkiye
    Inscribed: 1985
    4.37
    485
    12
    In 1502 Leonardo da Vinci produced a drawing of a single span 720-foot (240 m) bridge over the Horn. In 2006 it was decided that an exact copy of da Vinci's design will be resurrected
  • Florence
    Inscribed: 1982
    4.45
    588
    15
    Was educated there as an artist from the age of 14, lived there later on in his life and the Uffizi now holds several of his works