List of World Heritage Sites in Montenegro

Kotor

Durmitor

Stećci-
Plužine

Stećci-Žabljak

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Location of UNESCO World Heritage Sites within Montenegro. Note: there are two sites in the Kotor area.

The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) World Heritage Sites are places of importance to cultural or natural heritage as described in the UNESCO World Heritage Convention, established in 1972.^[1] Montenegro, which declared independence in 2006 following the breakup of Yugoslavia and the dissolution of Serbia and Montenegro, acceded to the convention on 3 June 2006.^[2]

There are four sites in Montenegro on the list and a further six on the tentative list (the official list of sites that may be considered for future submission). The first site in Montenegro to be added to the list was Natural and Culturo-Historical Region of Kotor, inscribed at the 3rd UNESCO session in 1979.^[3] Durmitor National Park was inscribed in 1980 and extended in 2005.^[4] These two sites were first added to the list when Montenegro was still a part of Yugoslavia. In addition, there are two transnational sites on the list. The site Stećci Medieval Tombstone Graveyards, inscribed in 2016, is shared with Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, and Serbia,^[5] while the site Venetian Works of Defence between the 16th and 17th centuries is shared with Croatia and Italy.^[6] The Durmitor National Park is listed as a natural site while the other three are cultural sites, as determined by the organization's selection criteria.^[2]

At the time of its inscription in 1979, the site Natural and Culturo-Historical Region of Kotor was immediately listed as endangered, due to the damage it sustained in an earthquake registering 6.9 M_w that affected the area earlier that year. Following restoration, largely financed by the UNESCO, it was removed from the list of endangered sites in 2003.^[7]