#intangible heritage

A food stand at Bogotá’s Festival de Chicha offers fritanga, a traditional dish that combines potatoes and plantains with blood sausage and other meats.

The main entrance to the New York Public Library at the corner of Fifth Avenue and 42nd Street, with one of its two famous lions.

The Peña Bernal, one of the defining natural features of the Otomi-Chichimeca region.

The piña is the fibrous, sugar-filled heart of the agave plant. A pile of them awaits the processing that will turn them into tequila at the historic headquarters of a leading producer. Most of the firm’s production, however, takes place in a modern distillery.

One of the family chapels of Tolimán: 18th century wall paintings and contemporary stewards.

Books, coasters, and leaflets are part of the marketing support the government of Buenos Aires provides for bars, cafés, and other establishments judged to have heritage value.

Bogotá’s San Alejo flea market is patrimony of cultural and touristic interest: the sign even says so.

Haar in Princes Street Gardens in Edinburgh.

Haar over Aberdeen city centre and Town House tower.

Large pieces of quartz are baked in the kiln, then broken into tiny pieces and sieved to obtain fragments of three different sizes.

Lavishly decorated pots are rarely produced, but they reveal the exquisite work that the women artisans can produce. (Pot from the collection of the Museu de Arte Popular)

Large pots take a long time to decorate, so they are wrapped in plastic to ensure that the clay will not dry out too quickly.

Drawing the decorative motifs in the wet clay with a needle and other instruments is the responsibility of the more experienced pedradeiras’

Press conference in Zagreb at the Croatian Ministry of Culture in 2009, on the occasion of the inscription of seven intangible heritage elements on the ICH Representative List of UNESCO.

Child’s toy from the Zagorje region, Croatia.

Mr. Vilko Kukec, a trough maker from the village of Selnica Gornja, Croatia

Exhibition opening at the new Centre for Traditional Crafts in Ptuj, Slovenia.