<span style="color: #222222;">Italy's Prosecco hills northeast of Venice, which have been cultivated for centuries, were added to the World Heritage list by the UN cultural organisation.<br />” <br />” The Conegliano and Valdobbiadene hills, where the grapes that produce the famous prosecco sparkling wine are grown, got the green light at a meeting of UNESCO's World Heritage Committee in Baku on Sunday.<br />” <br />” In a statement UNESCO said, the landscape is characterised by hogback hills, ciglioni — small plots of vines on narrow grassy terraces — forests, small villages and farmland.<br />” <br />”<br />”The region became Italy's 55th World Heritage site. The prosecco sparkling white, which has the highest classification available to Italian wine, is produced in a territory spread over nine provinces in Italy's northeast.</span><br />