Unesco: another recognition for Italy with the "truffle hunting and quarrying"

• "Quarry and search for truffles", the go-ahead for the candidacy for Unesco heritage arrives

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December 16, 2021 Italy obtained a new prestigious recognition from Unesco this morning, thanks to the inscription of the "Truffle hunting and quarrying in Italy: traditional knowledge and practices" in the Representative List of

. The proclamation took place during the sixteenth session of the Intergovernmental Committee for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage, underway in Paris (13-18 December 2021).   

Minister Di Maio expresses great satisfaction with the decision of the Committee, which recognizes the value of an extraordinary wealth of traditional knowledge and practices transmitted orally in the countryside of many regions of our country. The new registration leads to

the number of Italian elements registered in the List of Intangible Heritage, out of a total of more than 600. After the registration last summer of the Porticoes of Bologna, of the pictorial cycles of the Scrovegni Chapel in Padua, of Montecatini Grande SPA of Europe in the List of UNESCO World Heritage Sites and after the election, on November 25, of our country to the World Heritage Committee of the Organization, the result further confirms the leading position that Italy holds within UNESCO and the excellent teamwork of the country system, which involved, together with the Farnesina, the Permanent Representation of Italy to UNESCO, the Italian National Commission for UNESCO,the Ministry of Culture and a wide range of local entities that have promoted the candidacy, including the National Federation of Italian Truffles (FNATI) and the National Association of Truffle Cities

"Uncem expresses the satisfaction of all mountain municipalities for this result". This was stated in a note by the

, after "Truffle hunting and quarrying in Italy: traditional knowledge and practices" was officially registered in the Unesco list of intangible cultural heritage. "The truffle - explained Bussone - is territory and community. It is businesses and value. Values ​​of the country's rural and mountain areas. From white, to black, to scorzone, from the Langa down to the Apennines, the search for truffles, Unesco heritage it will be a tool for the territories in the restart. Uncem says this by looking at all those Municipalities that are towns and cities of truffles, with which we will be able to work and interact in an even stronger way after today's results ". 

"Today is a historic day for Tuscan truffle hunters and for the

The "Truffle hunting and quarrying in Italy: traditional knowledge and practices" enters the intangible cultural heritage of humanity protected by Unesco. It is a recognition to be proud of, because the white truffle represents Tuscan excellence, and at the same time it is a recognition of the quarryman-dog couple, custodian of the territory and symbol of the perfect symbiosis between man and nature ". Thus the Prime Minister regional, Antonio Mazzeo, commented on the UNESCO recognition of the 'search and quarrying' activity that rewards some territories of the region.

"For Italy and

it's a special day, a date to remember. Paris said yes and one of our greatest excellences has received the right recognition worldwide. For our region this is an epochal opportunity, on this prestigious and historic goal we must now all be good at building something important from a commercial, tourist, social and cultural point of view. "The Regional Councilor for Agriculture, Nicola Cavaliere , comments on today's decision. "This is a victory that comes from teamwork - comments the commissioner - from the ability of different realities to network in support of a single identity. Through this spirit, we now have to work to safeguard this custom and the product and to tie the name of Molise more and more to the truffle,thus laying the foundations for a future of growth and well-being ".