Serbia. Studenica Monastery, Peć Monastery

Studenica Monastery

Date of Inscription: 1986
Criteria: (i)(ii)(iv)(vi)
Property : 1.1600 ha
Buffer zone: 269.3400 ha
Village of Studenica, Commune of Kraljevo, Raška District, Republic of Serbia
N43 29 9.996 E20 32 12.012
Ref: 389

The Studenica Monastery was established in the late 12th century by Stevan Nemanja, founder of the medieval Serb state, shortly after his abdication. 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.

http://whc.unesco.org/en/list/389

Medieval Monuments in Kosovo

Date of Inscription: 2004
Extension: 2006
Criteria: (ii)(iii)(iv)
Property : 2.8802 ha
Buffer zone: 115.3879 ha
Autonomous province of Kosovo
N42 39 40 E20 15 56
Ref: 724bis

Inscription Year on the List of World Heritage in Danger: 2006

The four edifices of the site reflect the high points of the Byzantine-Romanesque ecclesiastical culture, with its distinct style of wall painting, which developed in the Balkans between the 13th and 17th centuries. The Dečani Monastery was built in the mid-14th century for the Serbian king Stefan Dečanski and is also his mausoleum. The Patriarchate of Peć Monastery is a group of four domed churches featuring series of wall paintings. The 13th-century frescoes of the Church of Holy Apostles are painted in a unique, monumental style. Early 14th-century frescoes in the church of the Holy Virgin of Ljevisa represent the appearance of the new so-called Palaiologian Renaissance style, combining the influences of the eastern Orthodox Byzantine and the Western Romanesque traditions. The style played a decisive role in subsequent Balkan art.

http://whc.unesco.org/en/list/724

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