Following Berlin techno being added to the German list of intangible heritage in 2023, electronic music has finally made it onto the French Intangible Cultural Heritage list. This represents the first ...

Italian cooking, and all its traditions, have been hailed as models to follow and protect by the UN's cultural agency. At a meeting on Wednesday in New Delhi of UNESCO's Intergovernmental Committee, a ...

We all know yodeling, right? Alpine men and women singing across verdant valleys and snowcapped peaks, sometimes accompanied by a huge horn. (SOUNDBITE OF SONG, "DER ...

If a country wants one of its cultural practices to be added to the UNESCO Representative List of Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity, it has to show that the element meets five specific criteria ...

Each year, UNESCO recognizes culturally significant practices, traditions and customs. 2025's list includes weaving, handmade paper craftsmanship, yurt making, a genre of Cuban music and yodeling. You ...

The 2,500-Year-Old Japanese rice wine joins the ranks of Haiti's Joumou soup, Tajikistan's Oshi Palav, and Tunisia's Harissa. Stacey Leasca is an award-winning journalist with nearly two decades of ...

ISTANBUL, 12 December (BelTA - Anadolu) - UNESCO has announced that an embroidery style that is unique to Türkiye's southeastern province of Gaziantep has entered the Representative List of the ...