PHNOM PENH: A dozen Renaissance villas built by Italy’s powerful Medici family and monuments from North Korea’s medieval city of Kaesong were granted World Heritage status by Unesco on Sunday.

Constructed outside Florence, the villas and their gardens were commissioned by the Medicis, a Tuscan banking dynasty instrumental in the politics and culture of Renaissance-era Italy.

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