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intangible cultural heritage n 🔊

  1. (uncountable) Practices, representations, expressions, knowledge, or skills, as well as the instruments, objects, artifacts, and cultural spaces that form part of a community or place’s cultural heritage; (countable) an instance of this.

☞ Yesterday was the International Day of the Intangible Cultural Heritage, which commemorates the anniversary of the adoption of the Convention for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage by the UNESCO General Conference on 17 October 2003.

Illustration for intangible cultural heritage

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Café Schwarzenberg in Vienna, Austria: the Viennese coffee house culture is recognized by UNESCO as intangible cultural heritage.[1]

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