The European Heritage Days 2003

"Europe - common heritage: FORTS"

This year, Pan-European manifestation The European Heritage Days will be organized in Serbia under coordination and partial sponsorship of Ministry of Culture and Media of Republic of Serbia in period of September 13th-14th, 2003.

CITY OF SMEDEREVO - CENTRAL FESTIVAL

DONATORS: Ministry of Culture and Media of Republic of Serbia, Municipal assembly of City of Smederevo and other donators

ORGANIZER: The Smederevo Regional Institute for the preservation of cultural monuments, with Cultural Center, Museum in Smederevo, Archive, National library, Museum of black metallurgy Sartid a.d., Tourist organization of Smederevo, Infrastructure directorate, Serbian Orthodox Church, as well as with elementary and secondary schools.

SCHEDULE OF SMEDEREVO FESTIVAL • EVENTS IN OTHER SERBIAN CITIES

ADDITIONAL INFORMATIONS

Partner network:
European Heritage Day sites

About our Internet-site:
New project by Regional Institute for Protection of Cultural Monuments in Smederevo

The Smederevo Regional Institute for the preservation of cultural monuments is presenting this Internet-site for use by colleagues from the Preservation Institute and other similar bureaus, but also by the broadest public interested in immovable cultural objects in the region that we operate in.

We hope that it will become a precious guide to the monumental heritage of the Smederevo and Braničevo region and the state in which this heritage is in.

We endeavored to give a compact review of the results that we reached through several years' work on the preservation of the monumental heritage, so that all those interested could receive brief, plain and reliable information on immovable cultural objects that are under state protection.

Apart from the introductory text on the Institute and its work so far, we have given a catalogue presentation of six immovable cultural objects of extreme significance, from our region.

Finally, we give tables of all the cultural objects established to the present day, which can easily be located on the accompanying map.

Due to limited space, we did not speak of the recorded objects, although, by number and significance, they also represent a great treasure that has yet to be evaluated and preserved in the proper manner.

Since many of them are in the process of establishment, the photographs of some of them are presented, so that an impression may also be reached of that part of the heritage, which is less familiar to the public.

This is a review of sorts of our activities so far, and we believe that we will also find it useful, first of all to give us a better view of the matter, but also as a guide to our further, better work.

Therefore, we intend this to be the first of a series of planned projects, which should shed more thorough light on our entire monumental heritage, or certain segments of it.

Finally, we wish to extend special gratitude to the institutes and individuals that participated in the protection of the monumental heritage of this region, trusting that their number and care will increase in time, and also the general awareness of our people and our government of the importance and need for constant, dedicated care of the monumental heritage.