Cultural heritage of Serbia
Cultural heritage of Serbia represents the totality of national cultural heritage in Serbia as defined by Serbia's Law on Cultural Goods. Some of national heritage sites in Serbia are also World Heritage Sites.
the White Angel fresco, from the Monastery of Mileševa
Serbian Orthodox Monastery of Gračanica, from the beginning of the 14th century (World Heritage Site)
Serbian Orthodox Monastery of Dečani, from the first half of the 14th century (World Heritage Site)
The Gračanica Monastery is a Serbian Orthodox monastery located in Kosovo. It was built by the Serbian king Stefan Milutin in 1321. The monastery was declared a Monument of Culture of Exceptional Importance in 1990, and on 13 July 2006 it was placed on UNESCO's World Heritage List under the name of Medieval Monuments in Kosovo as an extension of the Visoki Dečani site, which was overall placed on the List of World Heritage in Danger.
Gračanica
ktetor (founder) fresco with Stefan Milutin holding a model of the church, ca. 1321.
Gračanica painted fauvistically by Nadežda Petrović (1913).
Dormition of the Mother of God, fresco from Gračanica, c. 1321. (See also Palaiologian Renaissance)