(ANSA) - Transhumance, the traditional pastoral practice of seasonal migration of cattle along the tracks and towards better climatic conditions, has been unanimously included in the Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of UNESCO. The ANSA learns from the Intergovernmental Committee meeting in Bogotà in Colombia.
From today, moreover, Italy acquires the primacy of enrollments in rural and agri-food sectors, surpassing Turkey and Belgium. From Trentino to Amatrice, from Irpinia to Puglia the symbolic places.
Great satisfaction expressed by the agricultural policy ministers Teresa Bellanova and the Environment, Sergio Costa for the favorable opinion expressed by the 24 countries during the intergovernmental committee underway in Bogotà, Colombia. The recognition concerns the whole of Italy, from the Alps to the Tavoliere: the emblematic communities indicated in the dossier as symbolic places of transhumance are different, including the municipalities of Amatrice (Rieti) from which the candidacy started immediately after the devastating earthquake, Frosolone ( Isernia), Pescocostanzo and Anversa degli Abruzzi in the province of L'Aquila, Lacedonia in Alta Irpinia in Campania, San Marco in Lamis and Volturara Appula (the country of the Premier Conte) in the province of Foggia, along with territories of Lombardy, the Val Senales in Trentino Alto-Adige, and Basilicata.
The transhumant pastors, as highlighted by the candidacy dossier presented by Italy together with Greece and Austria at Unesco, have a thorough knowledge of the environment, of the ecological balance between man and nature and climate change: it is in fact one of the more sustainable and efficient farming methods. Today transhumance is practiced mainly between Molise, Abruzzo and Puglia, Lazio, Campania, and in the North between Italy and Austria in Alto Adige, in Lombardy, Valle d'Aosta, Sardinia and Veneto.
'' This is the tenth recognition for Italy in this list - underlines the curator of the candidacy dossier, Pier Luigi Petrillo from Bogotà - and brings us the world record of awards in the agro-food sector, after enrollment in the Cultural Heritage Immaterial of the Mediterranean Diet, the Practice of the cultivation of sapling vines of Pantelleria, the Art of the Neapolitan Pizzaiuolo, of the technique of dry stone walls and the vineyard landscapes of the Langhe and Prosecco ''. (ANSA).