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’).

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Results : 19 elements corresponding to 16 countries

2018² – 2016¹ – 2015¹ – 2012¹ – 2011² – 2010² – 2009⁴ – 2008⁶

2018
List of Intangible Cultural Heritage in Need of Urgent Safeguarding
Shadow play	Syrian Arab Republic
Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity
Tamboradas drum-playing rituals	Spain
2016
Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity
Music and dance of the merengue in the Dominican Republic	Dominican Republic
2015
List of Intangible Cultural Heritage in Need of Urgent Safeguarding
Traditional Vallenato music of the Greater Magdalena region	Colombia
2012
Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity
Fiesta of the patios in Cordova	Spain
2011
List of Intangible Cultural Heritage in Need of Urgent Safeguarding
Naqqāli, Iranian dramatic story-telling	Iran (Islamic Republic of)
Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity
Fado, urban popular song of Portugal	Portugal
2010
Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity
Houtem Jaarmarkt, annual winter fair and livestock market at Sint-Lievens-Houtem	Belgium
Human towers	Spain
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
Âşıklık (minstrelsy) tradition	Turkey
Karagöz	Turkey
Nanyin	China
2008
Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity
Arts of the Meddah, public storytellers	Turkey
Canto a tenore, Sardinian pastoral songs	Italy
Carnival of Binche	Belgium
Cultural space of Jemaa el-Fna Square	Morocco
Iraqi Maqam	Iraq
Oral heritage of Gelede	Benin – Nigeria – Togo