World Heritage status is increasingly being recognized as an effective factor for generating development opportunities for communities and territories, as defined by the United NAtions 2020 Agenda. With the Indicators Culture | 2030 document, Unesco, at the end of 2019, prepared a new tool to measure the ability of culture to affect these processes. In this context, the panel, organized by Fondazione Santagata intends to present and confront some of the most significant experiences from world heritage sites.