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This article lists the sites registered with World Heritage to Montenegro.

Understand

Montenegro takes over from the Convention for the Protection of World Cultural and Natural Heritage on June 3, 2006. The first protected site was inscribed in 1979.

Montenegro has 4 sites inscribed on the World Heritage, 3 cultural and 1 natural.

Listing

The following sites are listed as World Heritage.

Site	Type	Criterion	Description	Drawing
43.13319.0171 Durmitor National Park	Natural	(vii), (viii), (x)	Shaped by glaciers and cut by rivers and groundwater, Durmitor National Park is of striking natural beauty: along the Tara, in the deepest gorges in Europe, dense coniferous forests are dotted with lakes with clear waters and home to a large endemic flora.	UNESCO sheet
Natural and cultural-historical region of 42.48318.72 Kotor	Cultural	(i), (ii), (iii), (iv)	This natural Montenegrin harbor on the Adriatic coast was an important center of commerce and art with famous schools of masonry and icon painting in the Middle Ages. Many of its monuments, including four Romanesque churches and the city walls, were badly damaged by an earthquake in 1979, but the city has been restored, mainly with the help of UNESCO.	UNESCO sheet
Stećci medieval tomb cemeteries 43.094719.14913 Grčko groblje, Žabljak 43.107619.16814 Bare Žugića, Žabljak Grčko groblje, Plužine	Cultural	(iii) (vi)	This serial property brings together 28 sites, located in Bosnia and Herzegovina, western Serbia, western Montenegro, as well as central and southern Croatia, which represent medieval cemeteries and tombs, or stećci, specific to these regions. These cemeteries, which date from the 12the century to XVIe century, are organized in rows, as was the custom in Europe since the Middle Ages. The stećci are mostly carved in limestone. They feature a great diversity of decorative motifs and inscriptions which bear witness to iconographic continuities in medieval Europe and particular local traditions.	UNESCO sheet
16th century Venetian defensese in the XVIIe century: Stato da Terra - Western Stato da Mar 42.425318.77115 Walled city of Kotor Other sites in Croatia and in Italy	Cultural	(iii) (iv)	This property consists of 15 defensive structures located in Italy, Croatia and Montenegro, which are spread over more than 1000 kilometers between the Lombardy region in Italy and the eastern Adriatic coast. The fortifications of Stato da Terra, protected the Republic of Venice in the north-west and those of Stato da Mar, the maritime routes and the ports of the Adriatic Sea towards the Levant. They were necessary to support the expansion and power of the Serenissima. The introduction of gunpowder brought about significant changes in military techniques and architecture which were reflected in the design of the alla moderna (or bastioned) fortifications that would spread throughout Europe.	UNESCO sheet
Criteria legend (i) Represent a masterpiece of human creative genius. (ii) To testify to a considerable exchange of influences during a given period or in a specific cultural area, on the development of architecture or technology, monumental arts, city planning or the creation of landscapes. (iii) To bring a unique or at least exceptional testimony to a cultural tradition or a living or disappeared civilization. (iv) To be an outstanding example of a type of building, architectural or technological ensemble or landscape which illustrates one or more significant periods in human history. (v) Be a prominent example of traditional human settlement, traditional use of land or sea. (vi) To be directly or materially associated with events or living traditions, ideas, beliefs or artistic and literary works of outstanding universal significance. (vii) Represent natural phenomena or areas of exceptional natural beauty and aesthetic importance. (viii) To be eminently representative examples of the great stages in the history of the Earth. (ix) To be eminently representative examples of ecological and biological processes underway in the evolution and development of ecosystems. (x) Contain the most representative natural habitats and the most important for conservation in situ of biological diversity.

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