Brief synthesisThe serial property represents the quintessence of the remaining built and artistic heritage of the Lombards in Italy today. It is one of the main roots of the beginnings of the medieval European world and the establishment of Western Christianity. Criterion (iii): The Lombard places of the power express remarkable new artistic and monumental forms, testifying to a Lombard culture characteristic of the European High Middle Ages. It takes the form of a clearly identifiable and unique cultural ensemble, the many languages and objectives of which express the power of the Lombard elite. They also played an important role in the transmission of literary, technical, architectural, scientific, historical and legal works from Antiquity to the nascent European world.