Stećak necropolis

Nevesinje is a town that literally carries the burden of history. In the municipality of Nevesinje, 117 necropolises with a total of 4,109 stećci have been recorded, making this area one of the largest concentrations of these mysterious medieval tombstones in the entire Balkans. Created from the late 13th to the early 16th century, the Nevesinje stećci were made from high-quality local limestone in four forms — chests (56%), slabs (39%), ridge-shaped tombstones and crosses — many of them decorated with motifs that still inspire admiration and raise questions to which historians do not yet have all the answers.

The largest necropolis not only in Nevesinje, but in all of Bosnia and Herzegovina, is located in the village of Krekovi, the hamlet of Mijatovci, at the Kalufi site — 452 stećci arranged in one open area that takes your breath away. Two exceptional examples from this site were taken in 1960 to the Military Museum at Kalemegdan in Belgrade, where they are still on display today. Nevesinjsko polje thus becomes what it truly is — a vast open-air museum amphitheater, where every step on the grass means walking among stone witnesses of a civilization that has disappeared, but not been forgotten.