Experts from Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Montenegro, and Serbia participated in the Stone Conservation workshop held in Žabljak, Montenegro, from 6-10 November 2017. The Workshop was organized and hosted by the Ministry of Culture of Montenegro, and it was facilitated by Mr. Simon Warrack, UNESCO and ICCROM expert on Cultural Heritage conservation. This Workshop, [...]

Ministry of Civil Affairs of Bosnia and Herzegovina in cooperation with the competent entity ministries and institutes organized the first training of site managers for 20 necropolises with stećci inscribed on the World Heritage List, which are located in Bosnia and Herzegovina. The site managers were appointed by the municipalities where the necropolises with [...]

The third meeting of the International Coordination Committee for the Implementation of the Management Plan for Stećci was held in Sarajevo on September 11, 2017. During the Meeting, previous activities on the implementation process of the Management Plan were analyzed and informations about the reactions from the World Heritage Center regarding the marking of [...]

The UNESCO World Heritage Committee, at its 40th Session held in Istanbul, Turkey, adopted the decision to inscribe the Stećci-Medieval Tombstones Graveyards on the World Heritage List. By this decision, 28 necropolises with stećci, of which twenty are located in Bosnia and Herzegovina, three in Serbia, three in Montenegro and two in Croatia, were [...]