article_snippet.sent: Italy boasts the highest number of UNESCO World Heritage sites in the world -- 50, several of which risk crumbling to the ground due to neglect and lack of public resources.
article_snippet.sent: "But what does Italy do with Italy immense cultural heritage"?
article_snippet.sent: Italy doesn't know how to exploit this treasure.
article_snippet.sent: Or, worse, Italy couldn't care less to promote Italy assets.
article_snippet.sent: The true but sad thing is that restyling in Italy is mainly thanks to private funds and sponsors.
article_snippet.sent: And that's because Italians have always lacked a sense of national belonging:
article_snippet.sent: Italy, despite Italy millenary history, is one of the world's most modern states, unified in 1861.
article_snippet.sent: Patriot Massimo D'Azeglio once said: "Now that we've made Italy, we need to make Italians."
article_snippet.sent: Italy could do with what it has, that it could live off tourism.  
article_snippet.sent: One could argue that Italy does well to open for free the Lord's doors, but probably in some "critical" cases a minimum cost to enter wouldn't hurt.
highlights_snippet.sent: Italy boasts the highest number of UNESCO World Heritage sites in the world .
  
highlights_snippet.sent: Italy doesn't know how to exploit treasures, and appears not to care about treasures, writes Silvia Marchetti .