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UNESCO World Heritage for Slovakia |
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UNESCO World Heritage Sites represent some of the best natural, cultural and historic attractions in world travel. Below are details of the 7 cultural, natural and mixed sites inscribed for Slovakia to date (a red World Heritage symbol denotes a site currently regarded as endangered). For more details of these properties, click on the links to the UNESCO website and the photographic galleries of these sites from OurPlace (where available). Also, check out UNESCO's Intangible Cultural Heritage for Slovakia below.
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| 1993 - Levo?a, Spišský Hrad and its Associated Cultural Monuments | Cultural site |
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| 1993 - Historic Town of Banská Štiavnica and the Technical Monuments in its Vicinity | Cultural site |
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| 1995 - Caves of Aggtelek Karst and Slovak Karst | Natural site |
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| 2000 - Bardejov Town Conservation Reserve | Cultural site | |
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| 2007 - Primeval Beech Forests of the Carpathians | Natural site | |
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| 2008 - Wooden Churches of the Slovak part of the Carpathian Mountain Area | Cultural site |
Intangible Cultural Heritage
Recently UNESCO has begun to document the world's Intangible Cultural Heritage which includes "traditions or living expressions inherited from our ancestors and passed on to our descendants, such as oral traditions, performing arts, social practices, rituals, festive events, knowledge and practices concerning nature and the universe or the knowledge and skills to produce traditional crafts". The current listings for Slovakia are shown below - click on the links for more details.
Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity
 | 2008 - Fujara and its music |
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