The Intergovernmental Committee of the UNESCO Convention on Intangible Cultural Heritage (ICH – Intangible Cultural Heritage) met in Paris (11/26/2014) has decided to enter in the heritage: “LA VITE AD ALBERELLO DI PANTELLERIA”, an agricultural practice that is a unique grape growing, passed down from generation to generation in the community of Pantelleria. The…
The Mediterranean diet is a set of skills, knowledge, practices and traditions ranging from the landscape to the table, including crops, harvesting, fishing, conservation, processing, preparation and, particularly, consumption of food. The Mediterranean diet is characterized by a nutritional model remained constant over time and space, consisting mainly of olive oil, cereals, fruit fresh or…
© CRICD Regione Siciliana The puppet theatre known as the Opera dei Pupi emerged in Sicily at the beginning of the nineteenth century and enjoyed great success among the island’s working classes. The puppeteers told stories based on medieval chivalric literature and other sources, such as Italian poems of the Renaissance, the lives of saints…