List of World Heritage Sites in Croatia
World Heritage Sites
UNESCO lists sites under ten criteria; each entry must meet at least one of the criteria. Criteria i through vi are cultural, whereas vii through x are natural.

List of World Heritage Sites in Croatia

Section Title: World Heritage Sites
Table Section Text: UNESCO lists sites under ten criteria; each entry must meet at least one of the criteria. Criteria i through vi are cultural, whereas vii through x are natural.

Site	Image	Location	Year listed	UNESCO data	Description

Plitvice Lakes National Park	Plitvice-2003.JPG	Plitvička Jezera	1979	98; vii, viii, ix (natural)	Over time, water has flowed over the natural limestone and chalk, creating natural dams which in turn have created a series of connecting lakes, waterfalls, and caves.

Historical Complex of Split with the Palace of Diocletian	-	Split	1979	97; ii, iii, iv (cultural)	The palace was built by the Roman emperor Diocletian at the turn of the fourth century AD, and later served as the basis of the city of Split.

Old City of Dubrovnik	Dubra.JPG	Dubrovnik	1979	95; i, iii, iv (cultural)	Dubrovnik became a prosperous Maritime Republic during the Middle Ages, it became the only eastern Adriatic city-state to rival Venice. Supported by its wealth and skilled diplomacy, the city achieved a remarkable level of development, particularly during the 15th and 16th centuries.

Episcopal Complex of the Euphrasian Basilica in the Historic Centre of Poreč	-	Poreč	1997	809; ii, iv (cultural)	The episcopal complex, with its striking mosaics dating back to the 6th century, is one of the best examples of early Byzantine art and architecture in the Mediterranean region and the world.

Historic city of Trogir	Trogir Skyline.JPG	Trogir	1997	810; ii, iv (cultural)	Trogir's rich culture was created under the influence of old Greeks, Romans, and Venetians. It is the best-preserved Romanesque-Gothic complex not only in the Adriatic, but in all of Central Europe.

Cathedral of Saint James	-	Šibenik	2000	963; i, ii, iv (cultural)	The cathedral is a triple-nave basilica with three apses and a dome (32 metres (105 ft) high inside) and is also one of the most important Renaissance architectural monuments in the eastern Adriatic.

Stari Grad Plain	-	Hvar	2008	1240; ii, iii, v (cultural)	The Stari Grad Plain is an agricultural landscape that was set up by the ancient Greek colonists in the 4th century BC, and remains in use today.

Stećci Medieval Tombstones Graveyards*	Mramorje 2.JPG	Dubravka, Cista Velika	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.

Venetian Works of defence between 15th and 17th centuries*	-	Zadar, Šibenik	2017	1533; iii, iv (cultural)	This property consists of 15 components of defence works in Italy, Croatia, and Montenegro, spanning more than 1,000 kilometres between the Lombard region of Italy and the eastern Adriatic Coast.

Primeval Beech Forests of the Carpathians and Other Regions of Europe*	-	Paklenica, Northern Velebit National Park	2017	1133; ix (natural)	This transboundary site (shared with Albania, Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Germany, Italy, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, and Ukraine) encompasses the isolated refuges from which the European beech has spread across the continent since the end of the last Ice Age.

Sentence(s)

The first three sites, Historical Complex of Split with the Palace of Diocletian, Dubrovnik, and Plitvice Lakes National Park, were in the list of the UNESCO in 1979.

final_sentence: The first three sites, Historical Complex of Split with the Palace of Diocletian, Dubrovnik, and Plitvice Lakes National Park, were in the list of the UNESCO in 1979.