Browse the Lists of Intangible Cultural Heritage and the Register of good safeguarding practices

The Committee meets annually to evaluate nominations proposed by States Parties to the 2003 Convention and decide whether or not to inscribe those cultural practices and expressions of intangible heritage on the Convention’s Lists.

By clicking on the inscribed elements listed below, you can discover the nominations, photos and videos, together with Committee decisions and evidence of community consent.

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The designations employed in the texts and documents of the nomination presented by the submitting State Party or States Parties do not imply the expression of any opinion whatsoever on the part of the Committee nor UNESCO concerning a) the legal status of any country, territory, city or area, b) the legal status of its authorities or c) the delimitation of its frontiers or boundaries.







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Results : 22 elements corresponding to 5 regions and 23 countries
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2023

Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity

Maltese Village Festa, an annual community celebrationMalta

2022

Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity

Festivity of Saint Tryphon and the Kolo (chain dance) of Saint Tryphon, traditions of Croats from Boka Kotorska (Bay of Kotor) who live in the Republic of CroatiaCroatia
Holy Week in GuatemalaGuatemala

2021

Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity

Cultural Heritage of Boka Navy Kotor: a festive representation of a memory and cultural identityMontenegro

2020

Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity

Tree beekeeping culturePoland – Belarus
Wine HorsesSpain

Register of Good Safeguarding Practices

Craft techniques and customary practices of cathedral workshops, or Bauhütten, in Europe, know-how, transmission, development of knowledge and innovationGermany – Austria – France – Norway – Switzerland

2019

Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity

GnawaMorocco
Holy Week processions in MendrisioSwitzerland
The festival of the Santísima Trinidad del Señor Jesús del Gran Poder in the city of La PazBolivia (Plurinational State of)

2014

Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity

Baile ChinoChile

2013

Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity

Annual pilgrimage to the mausoleum of Sidi ‘Abd el-Qader Ben Mohammed (Sidi Cheikh)Algeria
Limousin septennial ostensionsFrance

2012

Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity

Venezuela's Dancing Devils of Corpus ChristiVenezuela (Bolivarian Republic of)

2011

Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity

Leuven age set ritual repertoireBelgium

2010

Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity

Compagnonnage, network for on-the-job transmission of knowledge and identitiesFrance

2009

Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity

Procession of the Holy Blood in BrugesBelgium
Procession Za Krizen (‘following the cross’) on the island of HvarCroatia

2008

Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity

Cultural space of the Brotherhood of the Holy Spirit of the Congos of Villa MellaDominican Republic
Gule WamkuluMalawi – Mozambique – Zambia
Mevlevi Sema ceremonyTürkiye
Rabinal Achí dance drama traditionGuatemala
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