The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) designates World Heritage Sites of outstanding universal value to cultural or natural heritage which have been nominated by countries which are signatories to the UNESCO World Heritage Convention, established in 1972.^[1] Cultural heritage consists of monuments (such as architectural works, monumental sculptures, or inscriptions), groups of buildings, and sites (including archaeological sites). Natural features (consisting of physical and biological formations), geological and physiographical formations (including habitats of threatened species of animals and plants), and natural sites which are important from the point of view of science, conservation or natural beauty, are defined as natural heritage.^[2] Serbia succeeded the convention on 11 September 2001, following the breakup of Yugoslavia.^[3]

Our Lady of Ljeviš

Gračanica

Patriarchate of Peć

Dečani

Studenica

Stari Ras

Gamzigrad

Stećci–Perućac

Stećci–Rastište

Stećci–Hrta

Location of UNESCO World Heritage Sites within Serbia and Kosovo (striped area)

As of 2021^[update], there are five sites in Serbia on the list and eleven on the tentative list. The first site in Serbia to be added to the list was Stari Ras and Sopoćani, inscribed at the 3rd UNESCO session in 1979.^[4] Further sites were added to the list in 1986, 2004, 2007, and 2017.^[3] All are listed as cultural sites, as determined by the organization's selection criteria.^[3] Four out of five sites date to the medieval period while the fifth, the Gamzigrad complex, dates to late antiquity. The Medieval Monuments in Kosovo site, first added to the list in 2004 and expanded two years later, has been on UNESCO's list of endangered sites since 2006 due to difficulties in its management and conservation stemming from the region's political instability.^{[5][lower-alpha 1]} The Stećci Medieval Tombstones Graveyards site is a transnational entry, shared with three neighboring countries.^[10]

UNESCO lists sites under ten criteria; each entry must meet at least one of the criteria. Criteria i through vi are cultural, and vii through x are natural.^[11]

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Site	Image	Location	Year listed	UNESCO data	Description
Stari Ras and Sopoćani		Novi Pazar	1979	96; i, iii (cultural)	Stari Ras was the first capital of Serbia and contains an impressive group of medieval monuments consisting of fortresses, churches and monasteries. The monastery at Sopoćani is a reminder of the contacts between Western civilization and the Byzantine world.[4]
Studenica Monastery		Kraljevo	1986	389; i, ii, iv, vi (cultural)	The Studenica Monastery, established in the late 12th century by Stefan Nemanja, founder of the medieval Serb state, is the largest and richest of Serbia's Orthodox monasteries. Its two principal monuments, the Church of the Virgin and the Church of the King, both built of white marble, enshrine priceless collections of 13th- and 14th-century Byzantine painting.[12]
Medieval Monuments in Kosovo†		Dečani, Gračanica, Peć, Prizren	2004	724; ii, iii, iv (cultural)	The site encompasses four monuments: Gračanica Monastery, Our Lady of Ljeviš Church, Patriarchate of Peć Monastery, and Visoki Dečani Monastery. 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 style played a decisive role in subsequent Balkan art.[13] The site was inscribed on the list of World Heritage in Danger in 2006 due to difficulties in its management and conservation stemming from the region's political instability.[5]
Gamzigrad-Romuliana, Palace of Galerius		Zaječar	2007	1253; iii, iv (cultural)	The Late Roman fortified palace compound and memorial complex was commissioned by Emperor Caius Valerius Galerius Maximianus in the late 3rd and early 4th centuries. It was known as Felix Romuliana, named after the emperor's mother. The site consists of fortifications, the palace in the north-western part of the complex, basilicas, temples, hot baths, memorial complex, and a tetrapylon. The group of buildings is also unique in its intertwining of ceremonial and memorial functions.[14]
Stećci Medieval Tombstones Graveyards*		Perućac, Rastište, Hrta	2016	1504; iii, vi (cultural)	Stećci (sing. stećak) or the medieval tombstones are the monolith stone monuments found in the regions of the present Bosnia and Herzegovina, parts of Croatia, Serbia, and Montenegro. They first appeared in the 12th century and reached their peak in the 14th and 15th century. There are three sites inscribed in Serbia, at Perućac, Rastište, and Hrta.[10]

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In addition to the sites inscribed on the World Heritage list, member states can maintain a list of tentative sites that they may consider for nomination. Nominations for the World Heritage list are only accepted if the site was previously listed on the tentative list.^[15] As of 2021^[update], Serbia recorded eleven sites on its tentative list.^[16]

• Cultural Heritage of Serbia
• Immovable Cultural Heritage of Great Importance (Serbia)
• List of protected natural resources in Serbia
• List of fortifications in Serbia