Italy and the 2003 Convention

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13th Annual Meeting of the South-East European Experts Network on Intangible CUltural Heritage

16 June 2019

The South-East European Experts Network on Intangible Cultural Heritage (ICH) was established in 2007 by UNESCO, through its Regional Bureau for Science and Culture in ›››

International Conference : Falconry, an intangible heritage. Participation, cultural diversity and sustainable development

13 October 2018

New inscriptions to the Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity

1 December 2016

Periodic reporting

On the implementation of the Convention

15/12/2013 (submitted on time)
15/12/2021

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Key references

Ratification of the Convention on

30 October 2007

Read the Convention in: Italian

Committee Member

Membership and participation

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Listing of ICH

Opera dei Pupi, Sicilian puppet theatre (2008, RL)

12 elements inscribed

2019: Celestinian forgiveness celebration (RL)
2019: Transhumance, the seasonal droving of livestock along migratory routes in the Mediterranean and in the Alps (RL)
2019: Alpinism (RL)
2018: Art of dry stone walling, knowledge and techniques (RL)
2017: Art of Neapolitan ‘Pizzaiuolo’ (RL)
2016: Falconry, a living human heritage (RL)
2014: Traditional agricultural practice of cultivating the ‘vite ad alberello’ (head-trained bush vines) of the community of Pantelleria (RL)
2013: Celebrations of big shoulder-borne processional structures (RL)
2013: Mediterranean diet (RL)
2012: Traditional violin craftsmanship in Cremona (RL)
2008: Opera dei Pupi, Sicilian puppet theatre (RL)
2008: Canto a tenore, Sardinian pastoral songs (RL)

On-going nomination(s)

2020: L'art musical des sonneurs de trompe : une technique instrumentale liée au chant, à la maîtrise du souffle, au vibrato, à la résonance des lieux et à la convivialité (RL)
2020: L'art de la perle de verre (RL)

Backlog nomination(s)

2018: Truffle hunting and extraction in Italy: knowledge and traditional practice (RL)
2012: The Ceri Festival (RL)
2012: La procession des grands flambeaux à San Marco in Lamis (RL)
2012: The Carnival of Viareggio (RL)
2012: Festival of the Fir-tree (RL)
2012: The Launeddas' tradition (RL)
2012: Calendimaggio of Assisi (Region of Umbria, Province of Perugia) (RL)