UNESCO INTANGIBLE CULTURAL HERITAGE

INTANGIBLE HERITAGE LISTS

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Safeguarding Intangible Cultural Heritage

Close of a week’s celebration of Intangible Cultural Heritage

Intangible Cultural Heritage committee completes examination of nominations for UNESCO Lists

Forty-six new elements added to Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage

The Aalst Carnival in Belgium, the Peking Opera, Spanish Flamenco, the Wayuu normative system in Colombia, the traditional skills of carpet weaving in Kashan in Iran, and falconry, presented by 11 countries, are among the 46 elements inscribed today on the Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity. A UNESCO Intergovernmental Committee, chaired by Jacob Ole Miaron from Kenya and meeting in Nairobi until 19 November, examined and inscribed 46 of the 47 nominations presented.