The National Monuments of Bosnia and Herzegovina include:
Below is the comprehensive list composed of Cultural-Historical National Monuments of Bosnia and Herzegovina[2] and World Heritage Sites in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
This list (see list of all inscribed monuments in Commission's spread sheet for reference) is based on the commission's old website now maintained as an archive, which contains comprehensive data-base with Decision list, Petition list, Provisional and Tentative list, maps, images, together with other documents, descriptions, criteria and laws of all country's monuments, candidate monuments, rejected monuments, as well as those removed from list of protected properties, with browsable documents archive at:
Also, both old (archive) and new website maintains many other information and documents, the criteria, laws, news on activities, virtual exhibitions, galleries, etc., all browsable at:
For the UNESCO criteria see the Selection criteria.
Natural heritage sites and the tentative list of World Heritage Sites of Bosnia and Herzegovina are not included, instead these are elaborated within scope of separate lists, along with other specific lists created on the basis of monuments category, type or subject.
The name | Name | Date[3] | Criteria | Provinces | Images |
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Main list[4] | |||||
2005 | VI | ||||
2007 | II, IV | Republika Srpska, Sarajevo macroregion | |||
2016 | II, III, VI | Joint Cultural Heritage by four countries (Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Montenegro and Serbia). | |||
2021 | IX | Transnational site in 18 European countries. |
Type | Name | Location | Created date/era | Declared monument date | Image | Notes | |
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Bridge | C16 | declared | Spans the Miljacka. | ||||
Bridge | 1585 | declared | Spans the Miljacka. | ||||
Bridge | 1798 | declared | Spans the Miljacka. | ||||
Bridge | 1886 | declared | Steel road bridge over the Miljacka. | ||||
Bridge | 1887 | declared | Iron footbridge over the Miljacka. | ||||
Bridge | 1893 | declared | Also called Ajfel as it was designed by Eiffel. Bridge spans the Miljacka. | ||||
Bridge | 16th C | declared | Spans the Bosna. | ||||
Bridge | declared | Spans the Upper Neretva. | |||||
Bridge | 1683 | declared | Spans the Upper Neretva, rebuilt in 2009. | ||||
Bridge | 1567 | declared | Pedestrian bridge over the Neretva, rebuilt in 2004. | ||||
Bridge | Kriva Ćuprija | just before 1567 | declared | Pedestrian bridge over the Radobolja, reconstructed in 2004. | |||
Bridge | Karađoz-begova Ćuprija | declared | Spans the Buna. | ||||
Bridge | Inat Ćuprija | declared | Spans the Bregava in the center of Stolac. | ||||
Bridge | Djevojačka Ćuprija | declared | Spans the Bregava. | ||||
Bridge | Mustaj-begova Ćuprija | declared | Mustaj-begova Ćuprija, also Klepci Ćuprija, spans the Bregava. | ||||
Bridge | Ćuprija na Šuici | declared | Spans the Šuica (For better view open image). | ||||
Bridge | Stara Ćuprija Duman | declared | Spans the Bistrica. | ||||
Bridge | Ćuprija Studenci | declared | Spans the Studenci. | ||||
Bridge | Veliki Most | declared | Spans the Tihaljina/Trebižat. | ||||
Bridge | declared | Spans the Zalomka. | |||||
Bridge | 17th c. | 2006 | Spans the Trebišnjica. | ||||
Bridge | Bridge over Žepa | declared | Spans the Žepa (river). | ||||
Bridge | 1577 | declared | Spans the Drina. | ||||
Building | 1891 | declared | Burned down by Serb incendiary shells at the beginning of the Bosnian War, reconstructed and reopened in 2014. | ||||
Building | declared | Damaged during Bosnian War, repaired afterwards. | |||||
Building | declared | Damaged during the Bosnian War, repaired afterwards. | |||||
Building | 1551 | declared | Morića Han is the only surviving Ottoman era Inn in Baščaršija, Sarajevo. | ||||
Building | declared | Gazi Husrev-beg's Bezistan in Baščaršija, Sarajevo. | |||||
Building | declared | Brusa Bezistan in Baščaršija, Sarajevo. | |||||
Building | 1888 | declared | Established in 1888, originally conceived around 1850, building expanded in 1913. | ||||
Building | 1963 | 2012[5] | Award-winning building designed in the 20th century by architect Boris Magaš. | ||||
Building | 1921 | declared | Sarajevo National Theatre. | ||||
Religious-Islamic | Čelebića mosque in Donja Bijenja | Nevesinje | early 16th century | declared | |||
Religious-Islamic | 16th century | declared | The mosque was dynamited at the start of the Bosnian War, repaired afterwards and reopened in 2016. | ||||
Religious-Catholic | 1889 | declared | Sarajevo Sacred Heart Cathedral. | ||||
Religious-Catholic | 1668 | declared | Fojnica Franciscan Monastery. | ||||
Religious-Catholic | 1524 | 2003 | Kreševo Franciscan Monastery. | ||||
Religious-Catholic | Trappist Mariastern Abbey | Banja Luka | 1869 | 7 May 2004 | |||
Religious-Orthodox | Church of St. George, Sopotnica | Goražde | 1454 | 5 November 2008 | |||
Religious-Orthodox | Dobrićevo Monastery | Bileća | 15th-16t c. | 17 May 2006 | Built in the 15th or 16th century by the river Trebišnjica and then moved in 1964 upstream to Orah village | ||
Religious-Orthodox | Gomionica Monastery | Banja Luka | 16th century | 20 January 2006 | |||
Religious-Orthodox | Rmanj Monastery | Martin Brod | 16th century | 2007 | |||
Religious-Orthodox | Vozuća Monastery | Vozuća | 16th century | 2004 | |||
Religious-Orthodox | 1606 | declared | Destroyed during the Bosnian War, repaired afterwards. | ||||
Religious-Judaic | 1902 | declared | The Sarajevo Synagogue remains the only functioning synagogue in Sarajevo today. | ||||
Religious-Judaic | 1930 | declared | Heavily damaged in World War II, reconstructed as a culture center and theater afterwards. | ||||
Religious-Judaic | New Temple, Sarajevo | 19c.? | declared | New Sephardic synagogue,today art gallery. | |||
Religious-Judaic | Old Temple, Sarajevo | 1587 | declared | Old Sephardic synagogue, today Museum of Jews of Bosnia and Herzegovina. | |||
Fortification | Blagaj Fortress | Blagaj | 6 December 2003 | ||||
Fortification | Drijeva | Gabela | Toll and market-town of the Kingdom of Bosnia, sometimes called Nerenta. | ||||
Fortification | Klobuk fortress | Trebinje | |||||
Fortification | Ključ Castle | Gacko | |||||
Fortification | Ljubuški Fortress | ||||||
Fortification | Počitelj Citadel | Počitelj | |||||
Fortification | Srebrenica Fortress | Srebrenica | Market-town (trg) and mines of Srebrenica were defended by the fortress of Srebrenica | ||||
Fortification | 2003 | Stolac fortress, also known as "Vidoški Grad". | |||||
Clock Tower | declared | Počitelj Clock Tower is a part of architectural ensemble. | |||||
Redžep-pasha's odžak | declared | Tower and/or odžak. | |||||
Towers and odžaks | Smajilagić odžak | declared | Tower and/or odžak. | ||||
Towers and odžaks | Šurković odžak | Glavatičevo, Župa Komska, Upper Neretva | declared | Tower and/or odžak. | |||
Towers and odžaks | declared | Tower and/or odžak. | |||||
Towers and odžaks | Gradaščević odžak | 18C | declared | Citadel, tower and/or odžak. | |||
Towers and odžaks | Rustempašić Tower | Odžak, Bugojno | Citadel, odžak and/or tower, historical building | ||||
Fortification | Captain's Tower | 16C | declared | Citadel, tower and/or odžak. | |||
Underground structure | cca 1950–80 | declared | Herzegovina-Neretva Canton, Konjic Municipality. | ||||
Necropolis | Radimlja | Stolac | 15th to 16th century | declared | Herzegovina-Neretva Canton, Stolac Municipality | ||
Necropolis | Stećak necropolis Ričina | Posušje | 15th century | declared | Posušje Municipality | ||
Necropolis | Batalo's Mausoleum | Travnik | declared | Batalo's stećak. | |||
Necropolis | declared | Hrvoje Vukčić's crypt. | |||||
Stolac | declared | Moshe Danon chief Rabbi of Sarajevo (1815–1830) tombstone in a shape of stećak. | |||||
Cemeteries | Old Jewish cemetery, Sarajevo | Sarajevo | 1630 | 30 August 2004 | It is the largest Jewish cemetery in SE Europe, and second largest sepulchral complex in Europe | ||
Cultural landscape | declared 26 April 2013 | Plava Voda wellspring with Old Town of Travnik. | |||||
Architectural ensemble public buildings complex | 1537 | declared year? | Gazi Husrev-beg Library as part of a Faculty of Islamic Sciences. | ||||
Architectural ensemble residential complex | 2005 | Fortified city Old Town Vratnik, built between the 17th and 18th cen AD, is modern-days Vratnik neighborhood of Sarajevo. | |||||
Architectural ensemble residential complex | declared | Herzegovina-Neretva Canton, Čapljina Municipality. | |||||
Architectural ensemble residential complex | Džidžikovac | 1946–1959 | 2008 | Sarajevo Canton, Centar Municipality. | |||
Natural-architectural ensemble | declared | Ravno Municipal, west end of Popovo polje. | |||||
Natural-architectural ensemble | declared | Jajce municipality. | |||||
Natural-architectural ensemble | Blagaj | declared | Blagaj – Mostar municipality, Hercegovina-Neretva kanton. | ||||
Natural-architectural ensemble | 2003 | Stolac – Stolac municipality, Hercegovina-Neretva kanton (county). | |||||
Traditional household/ residential complex | Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina. | ||||||
Traditional household/ residential complex | Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina. | ||||||
Traditional household/ residential complex | Mostar, Hercegovina-Neretva kanton, Bosnia and Herzegovina. | ||||||
Traditional household/ residential complex | Mostar, Hercegovina-Neretva kanton, Bosnia and Herzegovina. | ||||||
Traditional household/ residential complex | Stolac municipality, Hercegovina-Neretva kanton, Bosnia and Herzegovina. | ||||||
Traditional household/ residential complex | Velagićevina | Blagaj-Mostar municipality, Hercegovina-Neretva kanton, Bosnia and Herzegovina. | |||||
Industrial architectural ensemble | Old Marijin Dvor power station | 1895 | Old electric power station at Hiseti, Marijin Dvor neighborhood in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina, opened on 3 April 1895. | ||||
Industrial architectural ensemble | Old Hrid power station | 1918 | Old Hrid hydro-electric power station in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina. | ||||
Movable property | Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina. | ||||||
Movable property | Zmijanje embroidery – Zmijanje village, Manjača mountain i Bosnia and Herzegovina. | ||||||
Movable property | Kreševo, Bosnia and Herzegovina. | ||||||
Intangible cultural heritage | Picking of Iva Grass on Ozren Mountain | Ozren mountain, Bosnia and Herzegovina. |