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.

You may also experience a conceptual, visual and interactive navigation through ‘Dive into Intangible Cultural Heritage’ interfaces which demonstrate the thematic interconnectedness between all the elements inscribed and their relation to nature or to threats.


The nomination files submitted by the States Parties are published by the Secretariat of the 2003 Convention on its website in compliance with paragraph 54 of the Operational Directives regarding the nomination procedure; moreover, the information included in the nominations is reflected in working documents of the Committee in order to ensure transparency and access to information.


The sole responsibility for the content of each nomination file lies with the submitting States Parties concerned. The designations employed in the texts and documents presented by the submitting 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, c) the delimitation of its frontiers or boundaries, or d) references to specific historical events.







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Results : 154 elements corresponding to 5 regions and 90 countries
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2024

List of Intangible Cultural Heritage in Need of Urgent Safeguarding

Reog Ponorogo performing artIndonesia

Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity

Arabic coffee, a symbol of generosityUnited Arab Emirates – Oman – Qatar – Saudi Arabia – Jordan
Art of crafting and playing rubab/rababAfghanistan – Iran (Islamic Republic of) – Tajikistan – Uzbekistan
Art of dry stone construction, knowledge and techniquesCroatia – Cyprus – France – Greece – Italy – Slovenia – Spain – Switzerland – Andorra – Austria – Belgium – Ireland – Luxembourg
Craftsmanship of Aleppo Ghar soapSyrian Arab Republic
Custom of Korean costume: traditional knowledge, skills and social practices in the Democratic People's Republic of KoreaDemocratic People’s Republic of Korea
Durbar in KanoNigeria
Equestrian art in PortugalPortugal
Henna: rituals, aesthetic and social practicesUnited Arab Emirates – Algeria – Bahrain – Egypt – Iraq – Jordan – Kuwait – Mauritania – Morocco – Oman – State of Palestine – Qatar – Saudi Arabia – Sudan – Tunisia – Yemen
Kebaya: knowledge, skills, traditions and practicesBrunei Darussalam – Indonesia – Malaysia – Singapore – Thailand
Living pictures of Galeras, SucreColombia
Semsemiah: instrument crafting and playingEgypt – Saudi Arabia
Skills of Parisian zinc roofers and ornamentalistsFrance
Tandir craftsmanship and bread baking in AzerbaijanAzerbaijan
Technique of making the giant kites of Santiago Sacatepéquez and Sumpango, GuatemalaGuatemala
The women’s ceremonial costume in the Eastern region of Algeria: knowledge and skills associated with the making and adornment of the ‘Gandoura’ and the ‘Melehfa’Algeria
Traditional bagpipe (Gayda/Tulum) making and performingNorth Macedonia – Türkiye
Traditional costumes in Norway, craftsmanship and social practiceNorway
Traditional design and practices for building Chinese wooden arch bridgesChina
Traditional knowledge and skills of sake-making with koji mold in JapanJapan

2023

List of Intangible Cultural Heritage in Need of Urgent Safeguarding

Traditional Syrian glassblowingSyrian Arab Republic
XeedhoDjibouti

Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity

Ceramic arts in UzbekistanUzbekistan
Ch'utillos, the Festival of San Bartolomé and San Ignacio de Loyola, the meeting of cultures in PotosíBolivia (Plurinational State of)
Craftsmanship and performing art of balaban/meyAzerbaijan – Türkiye
Craftsmanship of mother of pearl inlayAzerbaijan – Türkiye
Knowledge, craft and skills of handmade glass productionCzechia – Finland – France – Germany – Hungary – Spain
Malhun, a popular poetic and musical artMorocco
Maltese Village Festa, an annual community celebrationMalta
Rickshaws and rickshaw painting in DhakaBangladesh
Rotterdam Summer CarnivalNetherlands (Kingdom of the)
Sadeh/Sada celebrationIran (Islamic Republic of) – Tajikistan
Songkran in Thailand, traditional Thai New Year festivalThailand
Tradition of blacksmithing in GyumriArmenia
Traditional craft skills and arts of Al-Mudhif buildingIraq
Traditional skills of loincloth weaving in Côte d’IvoireCôte d'Ivoire
Traditional wooden boatbuilding in Carriacou and Petite MartiniqueGrenada

2022

List of Intangible Cultural Heritage in Need of Urgent Safeguarding

Art of pottery-making of Chăm peopleViet Nam

2021

Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity

Nordic clinker boat traditionsDenmark – Finland – Iceland – Norway – Sweden

2020

List of Intangible Cultural Heritage in Need of Urgent Safeguarding

Handmade weaving in Upper Egypt (Sa'eed)Egypt
Traditional knowledge and techniques associated with Pasto Varnish mopa-mopa of Putumayo and NariñoColombia

Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity

Handmade production of Christmas tree decorations from blown glass beadsCzechia
Musical art of horn players, an instrumental technique linked to singing, breath control, vibrato, resonance of place and convivialityFrance – Belgium – Luxembourg – Italy
Ong Chun/Wangchuan/Wangkang ceremony, rituals and related practices for maintaining the sustainable connection between man and the oceanChina – Malaysia
Practices and traditional knowledge of Terere in the culture of Pohã Ñana, Guaraní ancestral drink in ParaguayParaguay
The art of glass beadsItaly – France
Traditional skills, techniques and knowledge for the conservation and transmission of wooden architecture in JapanJapan
Traditional weaving of Al SaduSaudi Arabia – Kuwait

2019

Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity

'Ie Samoa, fine mat and its cultural valueSamoa
Artisanal talavera of Puebla and Tlaxcala (Mexico) and ceramics of Talavera de la Reina and El Puente del Arzobispo (Spain) making processMexico – Spain
Holy Week processions in MendrisioSwitzerland
Practices and craftsmanship associated with the Damascene rose in Al-MrahSyrian Arab Republic
The festival of the Santísima Trinidad del Señor Jesús del Gran Poder in the city of La PazBolivia (Plurinational State of)
Tradition of Kosiv painted ceramicsUkraine
Traditional skills of crafting and playing DotārIran (Islamic Republic of)
Traditional Turkish archeryTürkiye
Traditional turkmen carpet making art in TurkmenistanTurkmenistan
Winter festivities, Carnival of PodencePortugal

2018

Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity

Blaudruck/Modrotisk/Kékfestés/Modrotlač, resist block printing and indigo dyeing in EuropeAustria – Czechia – Germany – Hungary – Slovakia
Chakan, embroidery art in the Republic of TajikistanTajikistan
Horse and camel ArdhahOman
Khon, masked dance drama in ThailandThailand
Nativity scene (szopka) tradition in KrakowPoland
Rūkada Nātya, traditional string puppet drama in Sri LankaSri Lanka
The skills related to perfume in Pays de Grasse: the cultivation of perfume plants, the knowledge and processing of natural raw materials, and the art of perfume compositionFrance

2017

List of Intangible Cultural Heritage in Need of Urgent Safeguarding

Taskiwin, martial dance of the western High AtlasMorocco

Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity

Art of crafting and playing with Kamantcheh/Kamancha, a bowed string musical instrumentAzerbaijan – Iran (Islamic Republic of)
Craft of the miller operating windmills and watermillsNetherlands (Kingdom of the)
Craftmanship of Estremoz clay figuresPortugal
Organ craftsmanship and musicGermany
Traditional art of Shital Pati weaving of SylhetBangladesh
Zaouli, popular music and dance of the Guro communities in Côte d’IvoireCôte d'Ivoire

Register of Good Safeguarding Practices

Margilan Crafts Development Centre, safeguarding of the atlas and adras making traditional technologiesUzbekistan

2016

Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity

Almezmar, drumming and dancing with sticksSaudi Arabia
Beer culture in BelgiumBelgium
Charrería, equestrian tradition in MexicoMexico
Puppetry in Slovakia and CzechiaSlovakia – Czechia
Škofja Loka passion playSlovenia
Traditional craftsmanship of Çini-makingTürkiye
Valencia Fallas festivitySpain
Winegrowers’ Festival in VeveySwitzerland

Register of Good Safeguarding Practices

Community project of safeguarding the living culture of Rovinj/Rovigno: the Batana EcomuseumCroatia
Festival of folklore in Koprivshtitsa: a system of practices for heritage presentation and transmissionBulgaria

2015

List of Intangible Cultural Heritage in Need of Urgent Safeguarding

Manufacture of cowbellsPortugal

Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity

Bagpipe cultureSlovakia
Copper craftsmanship of LahijAzerbaijan
Filete porteño in Buenos Aires, a traditional painting techniqueArgentina
Three genres of traditional dance in BaliIndonesia
Tinian marble craftsmanshipGreece

2014

Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity

Argan, practices and know-how concerning the argan treeMorocco
Ebru, Turkish art of marblingTürkiye
Mongolian knuckle-bone shootingMongolia
Pujllay and Ayarichi, music and dances of the Yampara cultureBolivia (Plurinational State of)
Ritual and ceremonies of Sebeïba in the oasis of Djanet, AlgeriaAlgeria
The tradition of carpet-making in ChiprovtsiBulgaria
Traditional art and symbolism of Kelaghayi, making and wearing women’s silk headscarvesAzerbaijan
Traditional brass and copper craft of utensil making among the Thatheras of Jandiala Guru, Punjab, IndiaIndia
Traditional knowledge and skills in making Kyrgyz and Kazakh yurts (Turkic nomadic dwellings)Kazakhstan – Kyrgyzstan
Ví and Giặm folk songs of Nghệ TĩnhViet Nam
Washi, craftsmanship of traditional Japanese hand-made paperJapan
Zmijanje embroideryBosnia and Herzegovina

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
Celebrations of big shoulder-borne processional structuresItaly
Knowledge, skills and rituals related to the annual renewal of the Q’eswachaka bridgePeru
Limousin septennial ostensionsFrance
Shrimp fishing on horseback in OostduinkerkeBelgium
Traditional art of Jamdani weavingBangladesh
Traditional craftsmanship of the Mongol Ger and its associated customsMongolia

2012

List of Intangible Cultural Heritage in Need of Urgent Safeguarding

Ala-kiyiz and Shyrdak, art of Kyrgyz traditional felt carpetsKyrgyzstan

Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity

Craftsmanship and performance art of the Tar, a long-necked string musical instrumentAzerbaijan
Craftsmanship of Horezu ceramicsRomania
Festival of Saint Francis of Assisi, QuibdóColombia
Traditional violin craftsmanship in CremonaItaly
Traditional weaving of the Ecuadorian toquilla straw hatEcuador

2011

Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity

Chinese shadow puppetryChina
Equitation in the French traditionFrance
Weaving of Mosi (fine ramie) in the Hansan regionRepublic of Korea

Register of Good Safeguarding Practices

Revitalization of the traditional craftsmanship of lime-making in Morón de la Frontera, Seville, AndalusiaSpain

2010

List of Intangible Cultural Heritage in Need of Urgent Safeguarding

Watertight-bulkhead technology of Chinese junksChina
Wooden movable-type printing of ChinaChina

Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity

Armenian cross-stones art. Symbolism and craftsmanship of KhachkarsArmenia
Compagnonnage, network for on-the-job transmission of knowledge and identitiesFrance
Craftsmanship of Alençon needle lace-makingFrance
Daemokjang, traditional wooden architectureRepublic of Korea
Gastronomic meal of the FrenchFrance
Gingerbread craft from Northern CroatiaCroatia
Indonesian AngklungIndonesia
Traditional art of Azerbaijani carpet weaving in the Republic of AzerbaijanAzerbaijan
Traditional skills of carpet weaving in FarsIran (Islamic Republic of)
Traditional skills of carpet weaving in KashanIran (Islamic Republic of)
Yuki-tsumugi, silk fabric production techniqueJapan

2009

Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity

Aubusson tapestryFrance
Busó festivities at Mohács: masked end-of-winter carnival customHungary
China engraved block printing techniqueChina
Chinese traditional architectural craftsmanship for timber-framed structuresChina
Dainichido BugakuJapan
Ijele masqueradeNigeria
Indonesian BatikIndonesia
Lacemaking in CroatiaCroatia
Lefkara laces or LefkaritikaCyprus
Regong artsChina
Scribing tradition in French timber framingFrance
Traditional handicrafts of making Xuan paperChina
Traditional manufacturing of children’s wooden toys in Hrvatsko ZagorjeCroatia

2008

Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity

Cultural space of Sosso-BalaGuinea
Duduk and its musicArmenia
Indonesian KrisIndonesia
Ningyo Johruri Bunraku puppet theatreJapan
Opera dei Pupi, Sicilian puppet theatreItaly
Oral heritage of GeledeBenin – Nigeria – Togo
Processional giants and dragons in Belgium and FranceBelgium – France
Sbek Thom, Khmer shadow theatreCambodia
Wayang puppet theatreIndonesia
Woodcrafting knowledge of the ZafimaniryMadagascar
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