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Croatia, Armed conflict (issue resolved); Need to extend the buffer zone; Earthquake in September 1995 (issue resolved). ,The Bureau at its twenty-second ordinary session examined a substantive state of conservation report on the state of conservation of Dubrovnik that was submitted by the Croatian authorities. ICOMOS informed the Bureau that it was greatly impressed by ...
State of Conservation Score 12.924532 Date 09/1998
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The UNESCO World Heritage Centre is relieved that the wildfires around the city of Dubrovnik (Croatia) are now under control and would like to pay tribute to the firefighters who fought the blaze. Reports from Dubrovnik indicate that the Old City, designated a World Heritage site in 1979 and then extended in 1994, was untouched by the fire.   The situation was particularly ...
News Score 12.793298 Date 08/2007
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Croatia, Armed conflict; Need to extend the buffer zone ,In May 1996, the first European World Heritage Youth Forum took place in Dubrovnik. One hundred students and teachers from 22 European countries met and discussed World Heritage issues. They sent an appeal to the European Ministers of Culture who were meeting in Helsinki at the same time, asking for their help in ...
State of Conservation Score 12.728675 Date 10/1996
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Culture|2030 Indicators City of Dubrovnik Urban Report
Activities Score 12.552767 Date 09/2022
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Culture|2030 Indicators Croatia and the city of Dubrovnik Project Page
Activities Score 12.517692 Date 09/2022
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Croatia,Armed conflict,The Bureau expressed its concern regarding the resumption of hostilities in the region. It requested the World Heritage Centre to advise the Croatian authorities to create, before the next session of the World Heritage Committee, a buffer zone which would ensure the protection of the ancient fortress and other monuments outside the city walls. The ...
State of Conservation Score 12.121298 Date 10/1992
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Young People's Appeal from Dubrovnik We, the young people "Patrimonitos" (heritage protectors), as we call ourselves, are so happy to be here in the World Heritage City of Dubrovnik. During this forum we became aware of the importance of preserving our heritage which we consider to be our treasure, and we discussed our ideas for protecting the World heritage with the ...
Activities Score 11.814415 Date 06/2022
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Croatia, Armed conflict (issue resolved) Earthquake in September 1996 (issue resolved) Need to extend the buffer zone Large project in the vicinity of the property Cruise ship tourism Carrying capacity of the property Planned Sport and recreation centre with golf course and tourist settlement (issue resolved) ,On 28 November 2022, the State Party submitted a state of ...
State of Conservation Score 11.719536 Date 08/2023
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Croatia,Armed conflict; Need to extend the buffer zone,At its fifteenth session held in Carthage in December 1991, the Committee inscribed the Old City of Dubrovnik on the List of World Heritage in Danger. In July 1992, during the sixteenth session of the Bureau, it was recommended to the Croatian Authorities to create a buffer zone in order to ensure the protection of the ...
State of Conservation Score 11.700022 Date 10/1993
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On 31 January 2005, the Trial Chamber of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia sentenced retired General Pavle Strugar of the Yugoslav Peoples’ Army to eight years in prison for war crimes perpetrated in 1991. He has been found guilty of war crimes against the civilian population and, under Article 3(d) of the Tribunal’s Statute, of the destruction ...
News Score 11.56198 Date 02/2005
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On 6 October, the Director-General of UNESCO, Koïchiro Matsuura, opened an exhibition on "World Heritage Sites in Croatia" in the presence of Mr Krešimir Filipec, Assistant Minister of Culture; Ambassador Ritz, Permanent Delegate of Croatia to UNESCO; the Mayors of Dubrovnik, Split and Togir, as well as the Deputy Mayor of Poreć and the Director of Plitvice ...
News Score 11.472462 Date 10/2004
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Croatia, Armed conflict; Need to extend the buffer zone; Earthquake in September 1995 ,The Committee at its twentieth session requested the State Party to submit, by 15 September 1997, an overall state of conservation report, so the Committee may consider whether Dubrovnik could be deleted from the List of World Heritage in Danger. At the date of preparation of this ...
State of Conservation Score 11.41222 Date 09/1997
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Croatia, Armed conflict (issue resolved); Need to extend the buffer zone (issue resolved); Earthquake in September 1995 (issue resolved). ,After receiving information from the civil society, the World Heritage Centre requested the State Party to provide clarifications on a large project in the vicinity of the World Heritage property, as well as on the progress in ...
State of Conservation Score 10.982834 Date 05/2014
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The 'Pearl of the Adriatic', situated on the Dalmatian coast, became an important Mediterranean sea power from the 13th century onwards. Although severely damaged by an earthquake in 1667, Dubrovnik managed to preserve its beautiful Gothic, Renaissance and Baroque churches, monasteries, palaces and fountains. Damaged again in the 1990s by armed conflict, it is now the ...
World Heritage Properties Score 10.615574 Date 07/2018
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Croatia,,[Oral report by the Secretariat]
State of Conservation Score 10.314038 Date 12/1991
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Croatia, Armed conflict (issue resolved) Earthquake in September 1996 (issue resolved) Need to extend the buffer zone Large project in the vicinity of the property Cruise ship tourism Carrying capacity of the property Planned Sport and recreation centre with golf course and tourist settlement (issue resolved) ,On 29 November 2019, the State Party submitted a state of ...
State of Conservation Score 10.310648 Date 06/2021
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Kyoto, (Japan) - UNESCO's World Heritage Committee today announced it removed the Old City of Dubrovnik (Croatia) and the Wieliczka Salt Mines (Poland) from its List of World Heritage in Danger due to the success of measures undertaken for their restoration and preservation. Dubrovnik, the Dalmatian Coast city dubbed "the pearl of the Adriatic" and dotted with beautiful ...
News Score 10.140228 Date 12/1998
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Croatia, Armed conflict; Need to extend the buffer zone ,At its nineteenth session, the Bureau took note of the information provided by the Secretariat about the progress made in the setting up of a documentation centre and coordination unit for the restoration works in the Old City and the Secretariat's cooperation with the national and local authorities in training the ...
State of Conservation Score 9.928398 Date 10/1995
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,On 28 October 2020, the international port city organization AIVP (Association Internationale Villes Ports) organized a webinar last October where representatives of UNESCO and the port authorities of Dubrovnik and Dublin were asked to reflect on this issue. Port culture and identity are part of the AIVP agenda for port cities in 2030, which proposes to promote and ...
Events Score 9.845863 Date 10/2020
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The historical-town planning ensemble of Ston regarded as integrated cultural heritage (cultural property and cultural landscape) comprises Ston and Mali Ston, the connecting walls, the nature reserve of Mali Ston Bay, Stonsko Polje and the salt pans. The area of this cultural property includes urban ensembles developed in accordance with the configuration of the ground ...
Tentative Lists Score 9.591394 Date 01/2005
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Croatia, Armed conflict (issue resolved) Earthquake in September 1996 (issue resolved) Need to extend the buffer zone Large project in the vicinity of the property Cruise ship tourism Carrying capacity of the property Planned Sport and recreation centre with golf course and tourist settlement (issue resolved) ,On 1 December 2017, the State Party submitted a state of ...
State of Conservation Score 9.510111 Date 05/2018
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Croatia Croatie Croacia Хорватия كرواتيا 克罗地亚 The Republic of Croatia
States Parties Score 9.136109 Date 07/1992
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Croatia, Armed conflict; Need to extend the buffer zone ,This World Heritage site was placed on the List of World Heritage in Danger in 1991 and has since then received numerous UNESCO missions, with a view to help in the ongoing restoration process and the monitoring of the work underway. It is recalled that immediately after the bombing of the city in December 1991, the ...
State of Conservation Score 9.087093 Date 12/1994
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The organizers of a symposium on world cultural heritage, held in Hildesheim, Germany 23 February - 1 March 1997 have announced the publication of the proceedings of this symposium, entitled: "World Cultural Heritage: A Global Challenge." The work contains all the presentations and the resolution adopted at this week-long conference.Seven representative projects from all ...
News Score 8.906286 Date 09/1997
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Venice, Italy,One year after the inauguration of the Old Bridge of Mostar, ten Culture Ministers from South East Europe will meet on the Venetian island of San Servolo on November 25 to 26 to discuss the issue of cultural heritage as an instrument for reconciliation and for economic and social development. Branko Crvenkovski, the President of the Former Yugoslav Republic ...
Events Score 8.631715 Date 11/2005
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Croatia, Armed conflict (issue resolved) Earthquake in September 1995 (issue resolved) Need to extend the buffer zone Large project in the vicinity of the property Cruise ship tourism Planned sport and recreation centre with golf course and tourist settlement ,In November 2015, a joint UNESCO/ICOMOS Reactive Monitoring mission to the property was undertaken and provided a ...
State of Conservation Score 7.8622656 Date 05/2016
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Three World Heritage sites in Cyprus and a fourth in Italy have been given "enhanced protection" status by the Committee for the Protection of Cultural Property in the Event of Armed Conflict, which held its fifth meeting at UNESCO Headquarters from 22-24 November. The sites, which are the first to be granted this status, are Choirokoitia, Paphos (sites I and II) and the ...
News Score 7.4788847 Date 11/2010
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UNESCO today welcomed the opening of the hearings of the case of Ahmad Al Faqi Al Mahdi before the International Criminal Court (ICC) in The Hague for alleged war crimes and the destruction of historical monuments and buildings of religious significance, including nine mausoleums and a mosque at the UNESCO World Heritage site of Timbuktu (Mali) in 2012. This first trial at ...
News Score 7.099603 Date 08/2016
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Paris - UNESCO’s World Heritage Committee will hold its annual meeting from November 30 to December 5 in Kyoto (Japan) at the close of which it will inscribe new cultural and natural sites on the World Heritage List and the List of World Heritage in Danger. Alongside the 22nd session of the Committee, UNESCO is organising another event in Japan the International World ...
News Score 5.0505476 Date 11/1998
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People of Africa, the Americas, the Arab to the future world, Asia, Europe and the Pacific; men, women and children, we are all the inheritors of treasures from past civilizations and natural sites of outstanding beauty. We are all responsible for passing these treasures on civilizations. People of the world, ephemeral owners of the world heritage of humanity, ours is the ...
Activities Score 3.9193592 Date 03/2022
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The World Heritage Young Professionals Fora are among the flagship activities of the World Heritage Education Programme, designed to foster learning and exchange by bringing together young people and heritage experts from different parts of the world to discover new roles for themselves in heritage conservation. They have been providing a platform for intercultural ...
Activities Score 3.3556738 Date 04/2025
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Stolac is located in the area known as Herzegovina Humina, on the tourist route crossing Herzegovina linking the mountainous hinterland in Bosnia with the coastal regions of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Dubrovnik and Montenegro.  This road, which runs from Sarajevo via Mostar, Stolac, Ljubinje and Trebinje, enables one to reach Dubrovnik in less than four hours.  Another route ...
Tentative Lists Score 2.756259 Date 11/2007
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Students' recommendations We, the participants of the first Asia-Pacific World Heritage Youth Forum are here to express our views on the importance of preserving World Heritage. We can appreciate and see all these sites because our forefathers preserved them for us and in turn, it is our duty to preserve these for our children, so they too can appreciate them and be ...
Activities Score 2.512518 Date 06/2022
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Osaka, Japan, 22-29 November 1998 Objectives The objective of the youth Forum was to build a "Bridge to the New Millennium" by promoting: Peace, Restoration & Preservation, Natural Environment and Coexistence.The Forum suggested to UNESCO to "Create the ‘World Heritage Movement' with youth and children for the New Millennium". Students Final Draft of "Patrimonito's ...
Activities Score 2.512518 Date 06/2022
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Student's appeal "We, the youth of Africa, have met at the UNESCO World Heritage Forum for Africa in Zimbabwe (18-24 September 1996). During this week, we have discovered just how important it is to conserve and preserve our heritage. Our appeal to you is to help us carry this heritage into the future. We "Patrimonitos" are defenders of World Heritage and the leaders of ...
Activities Score 2.1970654 Date 06/2022
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The form of the town of Korčula is primarily determined by the form of the little peninsula protruding into Channel of PeljeSac, (large about l nlm), on the northern side of the island of Korčula, (superficies about 272 km2). The strategic position favoured, and the natural setting enabled its complete encirclement with walls, which correspond with the line of the sea ...
Tentative Lists Score 2.0121822 Date 01/2007
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Known as Nicaea since ancient times, İznik is located on eastern shore of Lake İznik (Askania Limne) surrounded by ranges of hills within the Bithynia (Marmara) region of Anatolia. There has been human settlement on İznik since prehistory, as witnessed by discoveries of several mounds and tumuli around. According to geographer Strabo, the ancient town was founded in 316 BC ...
Tentative Lists Score 1.9027843 Date 04/2014
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Success Stories The World Heritage Convention is not only 'words on paper' but is above all a useful instrument for concrete action in preserving threatened sites and endangered species. By recognizing the Outstanding Universal Value of a site, States Parties commit to its preservation and strive to find solutions for its protection. If a site is inscribed on the List of ...
Pages Score 1.6721954 Date 12/2022
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SITE REGION REGIONAL UNIT COORDINATES Corfu Ionian islands Corfu 19.928385 E, 39.624538 N Zakynthos Ionian islands Zakynthos 20.891944 E, 37.789444 N Koroni Peloponnese Messinia 21.961826 E, 36.794382 N Methoni Peloponnese Messinia 21.700 E, 36.8150 N Bourtzi- Palamidi- Akronafplia Peloponnese ...
Tentative Lists Score 0.8884363 Date 01/2014
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