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Serbia UNESCO world heritage sites

Dakovica district [capital = Gjakova]

Monastery Visoki Decani in Decan on Skenderbeu
It was founded in the first half of the 14th century by Serbian king Stefan Decanski.

Pec district [capital = Peja]

Patriarchate of Pec Monastery in Peja on Patrijasiska ulica
Monastery complex consists of several churches, and during medieval and early modern times it was also used as mausoleum of Serbian archbishops and patriarchs

Pristina district [capital = Prishtina]

Monastery in Gracanica @
Gracanica represents the culmination of the Medieval Serbian art of building in the Serbo-Byzantine tradition.

Prizren district [capital = Prizren]

Church of the Virgin of Levisa in Prizren on Sahat Kulla
It was converted to a mosque during the Ottoman Empire and then back into a church in the early 20th century.

Raska district [capital = Kraljevo]

Studenica Monastery in Brezova @
It is the largest and richest of Serbia’s Orthodox monasteries. Its two principal monuments, the Church of the Virgin and the Church of the King, both built of white marble, enshrine priceless collections of 13th- and 14th-century Byzantine painting.

Church of the Holy Apostles Peter and Paul in Postenje @
The preserved frescoes in St Peter's Church, built in the 10th century on the foundations of a 6thcentury baptistery and now the oldest surviving Christian church in the Balkans, also present evidence of the developments that took place in pictorial art between the 10th and 14th centuries.

Monastery in Djurdjevi Stupovi @
St George's Church in the Djurdjevi Stupovi Monastery, founded in 1170-1171, is the earliest example of a distinctive new regional architecture that blended Romanesque and Byzantine styles. Known as the Raška School, this style came to dominate architecture in this area for almost a century and a half. The church also features two layers of preserved frescoes dating from 1175 and 1282-1283 that are among the finest from that period in the Balkans.

Medieval Town of Stari Ras in Sebecevo
The unique architectural complex formed by numerous structures in Stari Ras (Old Ras), situated at a crossroads of eastern and western influences,testifies to the period from 12th to the early 14th centuries when the ancient town was the first capital of the Serbian state.

Sopocani Monastery in Doljani @
The frescoes in the Sopocani Monastery church, dating from about 1270-1276, are among the finest in Byzantine and Serbian medieval art.

Zajecar district [capital = Zajecar]

Palace of Galerius in Gamzigrad on Felix Romuliana
The site consists of fortifications, the palace in the north-western part of the complex, basilicas, temples, hot baths, memorial complex, and a tetrapylon.

Zlatibor district [capital = Uzice]

Stecci Medieval Tombstone Graveyard in Rastiste at N43 56 45 E19 21 13
The stecci are exceptional testimony to the spiritual, artistic and historical aspects of the medieval cultures of southeastern Europe, an area where traditions and influences of the European west, east and south entwined with earlier traditions.

Stecci Medieval Tombstone Graveyard in Perucac at N43 57 28 E19 25 49
See above.

Stecci Medieval Tombstone Graveyard in Grcko groblje, Hrta, Prijepolje at N43 17 56 E19 37 28
See above.