The Verona street game project Tocatì
was on Thursday added to UNESCO's list of intangible cultural
heritage, ANSA sources said.
The UN cultural body said "Tocatì, a shared programme for the
safeguarding of traditional games and sports, is considered an
exemplary practice for safeguarding the intangible cultural
heritage".
The seventeenth session of the Intergovernmental Committee for
the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage is
beinghosted by the Kingdom of Morocco in Rabat (Sofitel Rabat
Jardin des Roses) from 28 November to 3 December 2022.
In its citation, UNESCO complimented Italy, the leading country
for number of bids, for fostering over the years a shared
pathway between communities including the association for
ancient games, the community of Verona, the Veneto regional
government, and similar communities in Belgium, Croatia, Cyprus
and France.
Tocatì, in fact, "each year sees young people from all these
countries recreating and reliving age-old and traditional street
games, in order to keep their memory alive."
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