World Heritage in Montenegro

Bay of Kotor Durmitor National Park Tara Canyon Stećci- Žabljak Stećci- Plužine

World Heritage Sites in Montenegro

The world heritage in Montenegro (as of 2017) includes four UNESCO world heritage sites , including three world cultural heritage sites and one world natural heritage site. Two of these sites are transnational . The first World Heritage site was added to the World Heritage List in 1979, when Montenegro was still one of the six republics of Yugoslavia , and another followed in 1980. After gaining independence in 2006, Montenegro ratified the World Heritage Convention in the same year, but only received a new World Heritage Site in 2016. The last World Heritage site to date was registered in 2017.

World heritage sites

The following table lists the UNESCO World Heritage Sites in Montenegro in chronological order according to the year of their inclusion in the World Heritage List (K - cultural heritage, N - natural heritage, K / N - mixed, (R) - on the Red List of World Heritage in Danger ).

 Map with all coordinates of World Heritage Sites: OSM

image	designation	year	Type	Ref.	description
Kotor (further pictures)	Natural and cultural-historical region of Kotors ( location )	1979	K	125	The Bay of Kotor is an almost 30 km long, strongly winding fjord-like bay, lined with high and very steep mountain slopes.
National Park Durmitor (further pictures)	Durmitor National Park ( location )	1980	N	109	The area protected as World Heritage includes the Durmitor massif and the Tara Gorge formed by the Tara River
Zabljak (further pictures)	Stećci - medieval tombstones	2016	K	1504	Stećci (Singular Stećak ) are tombstones in the Balkan region, which are mostly dated to the 14th and 15th centuries. In Montenegro three sites have been declared world heritage sites: Bare Žugića in Žabljak , Grčko groblje in Žabljak and in Plužine . Other sites are in Croatia , Bosnia and Herzegovina and Serbia .
	Venetian defense system from the 16th to 17th centuries ( location )	2017	K	1533	Cross-border with Italy and Croatia. The fortified city of Kotor is included .

Tentative list

The sites that are intended for nomination for inclusion in the World Heritage List are entered in the tentative list .

Current World Heritage candidates

As of 2019, six sites are entered in the tentative list of Montenegro, the last entry was made in 2019. The following table lists the sites in chronological order according to the year of their inclusion in the tentative list.

 Map with all coordinates of current World Heritage candidates: OSM

image	designation	year	Type	Ref.	description
	Historical core of Cetinje ( location )	2010	K	5561	From the end of the 15th century until 1918, Cetinje was the capital of Montenegro. First the princes of the Crnojević family resided here and from 1516 the Vladikas , the prince-bishops , who were the spiritual and secular heads of the Montenegrins until the middle of the 19th century. Today some relatively well-preserved former royal and government buildings and a monastery are still preserved.
	Old town of Bar ( location )	2010	K	5562	Over the centuries, Bar was ruled by Illyrians , Serbs , Venetians , Ottomans and more.
	Doclea ( location )	2010	K	5563	The area around Doclea was inhabited and shaped by different cultures.
	Biogradska Gora National Park ( location )	2010	N	5569	Biogradska Gora is a national park known for its primeval forest with trees over five hundred years old.
(more pictures)	Old town of Ulcinj ( location )	2018	K	6300	The old town of Ulcinj is a unique example of the interweaving of oriental and Mediterranean architectural concepts. The oldest traces of settlement can be traced back to the 4th or 5th century BC. To date.
	Primeval beech forests and old beech forests of the Carpathians and other regions of Europe (extension)	2019	N	6393	Extension of the World Heritage Site of Primeval Beech Forests and Old Beech Forests of the Carpathians and other regions of Europe to include a protected area in the Biogradska Gora National Park . The individual movement of the Biogradska Gora National Park (Ref. 5569 ) continues.

Former World Heritage candidates

These sites were previously on the tentative list, but were withdrawn or rejected by UNESCO. Sites that are included in other entries on the tentative list or that are part of world heritage sites are not taken into account here.

image	designation	year	Type	Ref.	description
	Morača Monastery	1993-1996	K
Herceg Novi	Venetian defense system from the 15th to 17th centuries	2013-2017	K	5853	The original proposal also included Herceg Novi and Ulcinj from Montenegro , but these were not included in the transnational World Heritage Site (Ref. 1533 ) in 2017 .

Web links

Commons : World Heritage Sites in Montenegro  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Montenegro on the UNESCO World Heritage Center website.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Montenegro. In: whc.unesco.org. UNESCO World Heritage Center, accessed July 22, 2017 . 
2. ^ Tentative list of Montenegro. In: whc.unesco.org. UNESCO World Heritage Center, accessed April 27, 2018 . 
3. ^ Former Tentative Sites of Montenegro. In: World Heritage Site. Retrieved July 22, 2017 (English). 

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