This document accompanies and supports the request to list the mining heritage of Roşia Montană on Romania’s Tentative List of outstanding cultural properties proposed for the inscription in UNESCO’s World Heritage List, a request filed at the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage on June 11^th, 2009 and re-filed on April 27^th, 2010. Both the request and the background note are realized by the Association “Architecture. Restoration. Archaeology”.

We invite you to read it here in the form in which it has been submitted to Romania’s Ministry for Culture and National Heritage.