Write something about yourself. No need to be fancy, just an overview. No Archives Categories.

Disclaimer The Tentative Lists of States Parties are published by the World Heritage Centre at its website and/or in working documents in order to ensure transparency, access to information and to facilitate harmonization of Tentative Lists at regional and thematic levels. The sole responsibility for the content of each Tentative List lies with the State Party concerned. The publication of the Tentative Lists does not imply the expression of any opinion whatsoever of the World Heritage Committee or of the World Heritage Centre or of the Secretariat of UNESCO concerning the legal status of any country, territory, city or area or of its boundaries. Statements of authenticity and/or integrity The Blidinje Nature Park area, part of the mountainous region of Čvrsnica-Vrana and Čabulja, is an example of the immense geological processes that took place during the orogenesis of the Dinarides, the largest recent area of holokarst in the world.

Vast masses of limestone and dolomite were compressed and stratified in cyclopean formations, and later, during the two glacial periods (Rus-Wurm), the mountain masses were laid bare and crumbled. The subsequent process of karstification merely added further to the fantastic natural features and the visibility of earlier processes within the recent morphosculpture. The Park area is an example of the evolutionary development of postglacial flora and fauna. The components of natural biocoenoses were formed under the influence of altitude, exposure, and geological base. These biocoenoses are important for the continued study of high-altitude natural forests, alpine meadows and communities on rocks, rock creeps and rocky terrain. The area is the habitat of a wide range of endemic, relict and rare plant communities. The appearance and position of the stecak tombstones in untouched natural surroundings makes this area one of the richest and most interesting in Bosnia and Herzegovina.

Comparison with other similar properties The size and density of the area, with its unbroken karst biodiversity and unusually rich flora and fauna, is of major interest for further scientific study. The Dinarides themselves are an endemic centre of Europe. The central Dinarides area is among the richest in the 700 km long mountain range. The nature park includes 11 mediaeval necropolises with stecak tombstones. The majority of the tombstones are decorated with rosettes, crescent moons, crosses and various borders. There is a variety of figural scenes, most of them hunting, jousting or round-dance scenes.

The designs indicate that this area has links not only with Herzegovina but also with western Bosnia. In addition, many of the decorations and other scenes make Blidinje a distinct entity.