Italy and the 2003 Convention

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Developing safeguarding plans for the traditional violin craftsmanship in Cremona

10 May 2021

The city of Cremona, which is home to the ‘Traditional violin craftsmanship in Cremona’, inscribed on the Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of ›››

Violin makers in Cremona develop safeguarding plans for post-COVID recovery

6 May 2021

European safeguarding activities reactivated in November despite lockdown

15 November 2020

Periodic reporting

On the implementation of the Convention

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

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Ratification of the Convention on

30 October 2007

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Listing of ICH

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

14 elements inscribed

2020: Musical art of horn players, an instrumental technique linked to singing, breath control, vibrato, resonance of place and conviviality (RL)
2020: The art of glass beads (RL)
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)

2022: Lipizzan horse breeding traditions (RL)
2022: Tocatì, a shared programme for the safeguarding of traditional games and sports (Art18)
2021: Truffle hunting and extraction in Italy, traditional knowledge and practice (RL)
2021: Falconry, a living human heritage (RL)