World Culture Map
Culture, kept in the place that carries it
Festivals, crafts, cuisines, music, architecture, ritual and language — each one plotted where it is actually practised. Filter the map by kind or by theme, or start from a region.
19 entries
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An isolate, held by very few speakers
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Arte del Pizzaiuolo Unesco
The Neapolitan pizza-maker's craft
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Busó Festivities Unesco
Horned masks driving out the winter
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Masks that dissolve rank for two weeks
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Stone vats worked the same way since the 11th century
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Día de Muertos Unesco
The dead come home, and are fed
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Fado Unesco
Sung in the old quarters of Lisbon
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Flamenco Unesco
Song, guitar and dance, argued out together
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Gamelan Unesco
An orchestra tuned only to itself
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Georgian Polyphonic Singing Unesco
Three independent voices, no accompaniment
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Gion Matsuri Unesco
A month of floats through the streets of Kyoto
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Great Mosque of Djenné Unesco
Mud brick, re-plastered by the whole town each year
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Kumbh Mela Unesco
The largest gathering of people on earth
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Naadam Unesco
Wrestling, horse racing and archery
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Double-ikat silk, dyed before it is woven
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Silbo Gomero Unesco
Spanish, whistled across the ravines
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Tango Unesco
Born in the port, in two countries at once
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Trulli of Alberobello Unesco
Dry-stone cones raised without mortar
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Washoku Unesco
Eating arranged around the turn of the seasons
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