Sunday 12 November 2023

Stećci Medieval Tombstone Graveyards

These medieval tombstones are scattered across Bosnia and Herzegovina, and the border parts of CroatiaMontenegro and Serbia


Stećci Tombstones in Croatia

This serial property combines 28 sites, located in Bosnia and Herzegovina, western Serbia, western Montenegro and central and southern Croatia, representing these cemeteries and regionally distinctive medieval tombstones, or stećci. 

Stećci Tombstones in Croatia

The cemeteries, which date from the 12th to 16th centuries CE, are laid out in rows, as was the common custom in Europe from the Middle Ages. 

Stećci Tombstones in Serbia


The stećci are mostly carved from limestone. They feature a wide range of decorative motifs and inscriptions that represent iconographic continuities within medieval Europe as well as locally distinctive traditions. - in: https://whc.unesco.org/en/list/1504/

I'm still missing a postcard from Bosnia and Herzegovina.


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