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 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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2023
Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity
The practice of opera singing in Italy	Italy
Traditional irrigation: knowledge, technique, and organization	Austria – Belgium – Germany – Italy – Luxembourg – Netherlands – Switzerland
Transhumance, the seasonal droving of livestock	Albania – Andorra – Austria – Croatia – France – Greece – Italy – Luxembourg – Romania – Spain
2022
Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity
Lipizzan horse breeding traditions	Austria – Bosnia and Herzegovina – Croatia – Hungary – Italy – Romania – Slovakia – Slovenia
Register of Good Safeguarding Practices
Tocatì, a shared programme for the safeguarding of traditional games and sports	Italy – Belgium – Croatia – Cyprus – France
2021
Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity
Falconry, a living human heritage	United Arab Emirates – Austria – Belgium – Croatia – Czechia – France – Germany – Hungary – Ireland – Italy – Kazakhstan – Republic of Korea – Kyrgyzstan – Mongolia – Morocco – Netherlands – Pakistan – Poland – Portugal – Qatar – Saudi Arabia – Slovakia – Spain – Syrian Arab Republic
Truffle hunting and extraction in Italy, traditional knowledge and practice	Italy
2020
Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity
Musical art of horn players, an instrumental technique linked to singing, breath control, vibrato, resonance of place and conviviality	France – Belgium – Luxembourg – Italy
The art of glass beads	Italy – France
2019
Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity
Alpinism	France – Italy – Switzerland
Celestinian forgiveness celebration	Italy
2018
Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity
Art of dry stone walling, knowledge and techniques	Croatia – Cyprus – France – Greece – Italy – Slovenia – Spain – Switzerland
2017
Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity
Art of Neapolitan ‘Pizzaiuolo’	Italy
2014
Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity
Traditional agricultural practice of cultivating the ‘vite ad alberello’ (head-trained bush vines) of the community of Pantelleria	Italy
2013
Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity
Celebrations of big shoulder-borne processional structures	Italy
Mediterranean diet	Cyprus – Croatia – Spain – Greece – Italy – Morocco – Portugal
2012
Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity
Traditional violin craftsmanship in Cremona	Italy
2008
Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity
Canto a tenore, Sardinian pastoral songs	Italy
Opera dei Pupi, Sicilian puppet theatre	Italy