Résumé en anglais
The present informative booklet Heritage of Slovenia and UNESCO has been jointly produced by the Slovenian National Committee for the International Council on Monuments and Sites (ICOMOS/SI), the Institute for the Protection of Cultural Heritageof Slovenia (ZVKDS) and the Office of the Slovenian National Commission for UNESCO. Its aim is to offer the general public an introduction to monuments and sites in Slovenia inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage List, the importance of world heritage, the main principles of the Convention Concerning the Protection of
the World Cultural and Natural Heritage (Petrič, 2000), the criteria for assessing Outstanding Universal Value in accordance with the principles of the Convention (Operational Guidelines, 2015: 14), the purpose of Tentative Lists of World Heritage and the monuments and sites that appear on Slovenia’s Tentative List. The booklet concludes with brief descriptions of cultural monuments that are potentially ofoutstanding universal value, thus qualifying them for inscription on the list of immovable cultural heritage. The Slovenian monuments and sites presented in the booklet are also included in the “Strategy for the Protection of Cultural Heritage and Valuable Natural Features in the Republic of Slovenia”, adopted by the Slovenian Government in 2007 in accordance with international legal instruments and
activities (Strategy, 2007).