Overview
- Local families report roughly 100,000 visitors a year, with trespassing and people peering through windows.
- The remaining residents describe their home as a "dead open-air museum" after decades under the designation.
- Preservation requirements reportedly prohibit keeping livestock or farming and can force approvals for even basic repairs.
- Only about four families remain in a cluster of 43 historic wooden houses that UNESCO praises for exceptional preservation.
- A removal from the World Heritage List is seen as unlikely because both UNESCO and the Slovak government would need to agree.