Historical Landmarks
The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Culture Organization (UNESCO) described its List of World Heritage Sites by the (UNESCO) World Heritage Convention as different places of importance to culture or natural heritage. Serbia, following its status signed the convention in 2001, making her historical sights eligible for inclusion to the list and some 4 following ones have been added to the List up to the present time:
– Gamzigrad – located south of the Danube and being near the town of Zaječar is at the same time the place of the ancient Roman complex of palaces and temples also known as Felix Romuliana and built by Emperor Galerius. The main area covering some 10 acres (40,000 m2) was commissioned by Emperor Caius Valerius Galerius Maximianus in the late 3rd and early 4th centuries but was known as Felix Romuliana, named after the emperor’s mother…
– The Monastery Studenica established in the late 12th century by Stefan Nemanja – founder of the Serbian Medieval State shortly after his abdication. It is the largest and richest of all Serbian Orthodox monasteries. Its two principal monuments, the Church of the Holy Virgin and the King’s Church, both built of white marble enshrine priceless collections of 13th and 14th century Byzantine frescoes…
– On the outskirts of medieval town Stari Ras, the first capital of Serbia, there is an impressive group of medieval monuments consisting of fortresses, churches and monasteries. The monastery Sopoćani is a reminder of the contacts between Western civilization and the Byzantine World…
– The following four edifices located in Kosovo are the highest points of Serbian Byzantine-Romanesque ecclesiastical culture with its distinct style of wall painting developed in the Balkans between the 13th and 17th centuries. The Monastery Dečani was built in the mid-14th century for Serbian King Stefan Dečanski and it is his Mausoleum. The Monastery of Peć Patriarchate a group of minster churches featuring series of wall paintings. The 13th-century frescoes of the Church of Holy Apostles painted in a unique, monumental style as well as the early 14th-century frescoes of the Church of the Holy Virgin of Ljeviska which represent the new so-called “Paleologian” Renaissance style, combining the influences of the Orthodox Byzantine with the Western Romanesque traditions that have played a decisive role in a subsequent development of the further Balkan art…
For more information please contact us at local DMC Serbia or visit the List of World Heritage Sites in Serbia at the following Web page en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_World_Heritage_Sites_in_Serbia
