The Gallery Klovićevi dvori in the Upper town in Zagreb organizes great exhibition Treasure of the Kotor Diocese from 14.12.2009. till 14.02 2010, after 1200 years of moving the relics of the Saint from Asia Minor to Kotor.

For centuries is Kotor seat of the Roman catholic bishops. It is an old walled town in Boka Kotorska bay in Montenegro, with the Cathedral of St Triphon from 1166 as a remarkable monument within.

Fifteen experts from five countries worked upon the realization of the exhibition, which is a nice example of international cooperation of institutions and experts. Extraordinary religious objects from the whole Boka bay are exhibited: relics of the head of Saint Triphon, golden altar from the Cathedral, painting of Lovro Dobričević and Tripo Kokolja, crucifixes, silver plates from Perast, the Dobrota lace, stone elements.

The Gallery Klovićevi dvori

Dear SEE Heritage friends,

We are preparing a new SEE calendar for 2010, similar to the one we made last year. We think that it was a good and nice PR material for our Network, and that it will be good to have it this year, as well.

We are thinking to use the same model - to have photos of different heritage elements /built, movable, intangible/from different SEE parts; Photos that are good, attractive and effective, and that show some interesting details (rather then complex).

Therefore we are writing to ask you to send us some good photos from the SEE region that could be used for the new SEE calendar.  We are especially addressing our friends who deal with photography professionally! It will be great if you could find and send us some of your photos!

Please, if you have some photos that you think could be good for the SEE calendar, send them to This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it by December 10, 2009.

Thank you very much in advance!

Bač is the most important medieval fortress in the Vojvodina province, the town after the whole Bačka land got its name. Within the project „Centuries of Bač", the great work of conservation is in progress. During winter months, away from the terrain work, the institution in charge Provincial institute for protection of monuments of culture with its partners started the series of lectures. Multimedial presentations include different forms, like comics, theory of arts or cultural politics, named „Marvelous adventures from the past / Centuries of Bač".

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From October 11-14, 2009, the SEE Heritage Network held a meeting conference in Novi Sad (Serbia) about the state of the European Landscape Convention in South East Europe. The conference was followed by a working meeting of member NGOs of the Network. A full report, press release and additional photos are available here.

 

The reconstruction of the eastern part of outer wall of the monastery of Sopoćani is finished. Serbian medieval monastery in raška style characterize the circle spatial organization of secondary objects and defense wall around centered church. For  centuries, this part of the 40 meters long Sopoćani wall was degradated. After the latest intervention of the Republican institute for protection of monuments of culture in Belgrade, the composition and the monastery yard is finally encircled.

Sopoćani is on the UNESCO World heritage list.

There is an interesting process of reconstruction of two parallel religious buildings in the city of  Banja Luka. One orthodox church, demolished in World War II, recently rebuilt, and one muslim mosque, demolished in the Civil war in Bosnia and Hercegovina, which is temporary under reconstruction.

The church of Christ the Saviour was built between 1925 and 1939, and destoyed in 1941. Rebuilding of the new church of the same appearance started in 1992, and in May in 2009 the church was finished and consecrated.

The Ferhadija mosque was one of the most important and most beautiful monuments of Ottoman architecture in the SEE region. It was demolished in 1992. The process of reconstruction is going very slowly, because of bad ethnic and political conditions.

Both buildings are rebuilding by the method of restitution, which consideres the brand new construction, but identical in material, appearance and construction system as previous one.