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 below, you can discover the nominations, photos and videos, together with Committee decisions and evidence of community consent.

Full text search: The system will search the exact expression entered (i.e. ‘sustainable development’), except if you separate the terms by a comma so that the motor search one or the other expression or the two (i.e. ‘foodways, culinary practices’).

Year:

Country:

More criteria

List:

Term:

all

multinational

national

Elements potentially related to World Heritage sites whc

Files considered good examples by the Committee

primary concept(s) only

Results : 26 elements corresponding to 20 countries

2018¹ – 2017³ – 2016² – 2015² – 2014² – 2013² – 2012¹ – 2011² – 2010¹ – 2009⁷ – 2008³

2018
Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity
Međimurska popevka, a folksong from Međimurje	Croatia
2017
List of Intangible Cultural Heritage in Need of Urgent Safeguarding
Al Azi, art of performing praise, pride and fortitude poetry	United Arab Emirates
Dikopelo folk music of Bakgatla ba Kgafela in Kgatleng District	Botswana
Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity
Multipart singing of Horehronie	Slovakia
2016
Register of Good Safeguarding Practices
Community project of safeguarding the living culture of Rovinj/Rovigno: the Batana Ecomuseum	Croatia
Safeguarding of the folk music heritage by the Kodály concept	Hungary
2015
Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity
Al-Razfa, a traditional performing art	United Arab Emirates – Oman
Alardah Alnajdiyah, dance, drumming and poetry in Saudi Arabia	Saudi Arabia
2014
Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity
Cante Alentejano, polyphonic singing from Alentejo, southern Portugal	Portugal
Gwoka: music, song, dance and cultural practice representative of Guadeloupean identity	France
2013
Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity
Limousin septennial ostensions	France
Men’s group Colindat, Christmas-time ritual	Republic of Moldova – Romania
2012
Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity
Al-Taghrooda, traditional Bedouin chanted poetry in the United Arab Emirates and the Sultanate of Oman	United Arab Emirates – Oman
2011
List of Intangible Cultural Heritage in Need of Urgent Safeguarding
Saman dance	Indonesia
Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity
Bećarac singing and playing from Eastern Croatia	Croatia
2010
Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity
Pirekua, traditional song of the P’urhépecha	Mexico
2009
List of Intangible Cultural Heritage in Need of Urgent Safeguarding
Cantu in paghjella, a secular and liturgical oral tradition of Corsica	France
Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity
Grand song of the Dong ethnic group	China
Holy Week processions in Popayán	Colombia
Maloya	France
Procession Za Krizen (‘following the cross’) on the island of Hvar	Croatia
Seto Leelo, Seto polyphonic singing tradition	Estonia
Two-part singing and playing in the Istrian scale	Croatia
2008
Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity
Baltic song and dance celebrations	Estonia – Latvia – Lithuania
Gbofe of Afounkaha, the music of the transverse trumps of the Tagbana community	Côte d'Ivoire
Hudhud chants of the Ifugao	Philippines