Article 69
Sites
Sites are works of man or joint works of man and of nature and also those areas,
including archeological sites, designated as of importance from a historical, esthetic,
ethnological or anthropological, paleontological or archeological point of view.
Article 70
Monuments
(1) Monuments means works of architecture, sculpture or monumental painting,
elements or structures of an archeological nature, rock painting sites, inscriptions, caves and
groups of elements whose conservation is of public interest from the point of view of the
history of arts or science, of paleontology or of the environment, of archeology, prehistory or
history.
(2) Consequently, movable and immovable property designated, for religious or nonreligious purposes, as of importance for archeology, prehistory, history, literature, art or
science are considered monuments if they belong to the following categories:
(a) collections and rare specimens of zoology, botany, mineralogy and anatomy,
articles having a paleontological interest;
(b) property relating to history, including the history of science and technology,
military and social history and the life of national leaders, thinkers, scholars, artists and events
of national importance;
(c) the produce of archeological digs, both regular and clandestine, together with
archeological discoveries, particularly paleontological findings, archeological sites, rock
painting sites and archeological objects of national importance;
(d) elements from the dismantling of artistic or historic monuments and archeological
sites;
(e) items of antiquity such as inscriptions, coins and engraved seals, weights and
measures;
(f) products of an ethnographical nature, such as ornaments and costumes, religious
objects, musical instruments, objects of furnishing, languages and dialects, systems of writing,
products of the traditional pharmacopoeia, medicine and psychotherapy, food and clothing
traditions;
(g) items of artistic interest, such as
(i) pictures, paintings and drawings made entirely by hand in any medium and of any
material, excluding industrial designs and manufactured articles decorated by hand,
(ii) original productions of statuary art and sculpture in all materials,
(iii) original engravings, etchings and lithographies,
(iv) original tapestries, weaving, assemblages and montages in all materials;
(h) rare manuscripts and incunabula, books, documents and ancient publications of
special interest, particularly with respect to history, art, science, literature, whether
individually or in collections;
(i) postage stamps, taxation stamps and the like, whether individually or in collections;