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Medieval Monuments in Kosovo

Serbia
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

Brief Description

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.

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