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.

UNESCO recently announced new additions to its list of World Heritage Sites. From a white sand cliff in Denmark to a coastal region in West Africa, the list includes stunning and important ...

TRAVELBOOK has the details. Today is an especially good day for pizza and pasta. The United Nations’ cultural organization, UNESCO, declared Italian cuisine an intangible cultural heritage this ...

The United Nation's cultural organisation announces its choice of sites for inclusion in its world heritage list this week, with pre-historic caves, former centres of repression, forests, marine ...

Twenty-six sites have been added to UNESCO's World Heritage List, designating their cultural and natural importance. Locations this year include a sacred mountain in Malawi; petroglyphs in South Korea ...

Switzerland's long-celebrated yodeling has received a response from the U.N. cultural agency: The Alpine tradition of chant ...

Norway's Viking Age landscapes including ship burial mounds could soon earn global recognition if authorities get their way.

Türkiye is among the world’s most successful countries in safeguarding intangible cultural heritage, according to professor ...

Belarus has four tangible sites and seven intangible elements inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage List. In 2027, Belarus ...

Africa currently hosts more than 100 World Heritage sites, featuring renowned locations such as the Okavango Delta in Botswana, the Rock-Hewn Churches of Lalibela in Ethiopia, and Timbuktu in Mali.

The 45th session of the World Heritage Committee concluded on Monday 25 September in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. This year, the Committee inscribed 42 new sites and approved the extension of 5 sites on ...

The World Heritage Committee today inscribed the transnational property of the Frontiers of the Roman Empire – The Danube Limes (Western Segment) on UNESCO’s World Heritage List. Frontiers of the ...