#intangible heritage

De Luca’s Restaurant in Pittsburgh on a Sunday morning.

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 Bar Mataderos, adjacent to the site of the well-known Feria de Mataderos in a working-class neighbourhood of Buenos Aires: recognition of its heritage value has not affected the décor.

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.

A memorial in the sidewalk marks the spot where Cecilia Viñas and Hugo Penino lived and were kidnapped and ‘disappeared’ by Argentina’s military dictatorship on July 13, 1997. About 250 victims of oppression have been similarily commemorated by the organisation Barrios X Memoria y Justicia.

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 on the Forth Rail Bridge in Edinburgh.

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)

Nisa’s inlaid ceramics were traditionally used for water, but nowadays they are produced mainly for decorative purposes.

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.

Mrs. Vera Hubicki, the gingerbread maker from Marija Bistrica, 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.