Norway's Viking Age landscapes including ship burial mounds could soon earn global recognition if authorities get their way.

By PAOLO SANTALUCIA, SILVIA STELLACCI and NICOLE WINFIELD ROME (AP) — Italian food is known and loved around the world for ...

Türkiye is among the world’s most successful countries in safeguarding intangible cultural heritage, according to professor ...

UNESCO has added Italian cuisine to the intangible cultural heritage list. The first worldwide. TRAVELBOOK has the details.

The U.N.'s cultural agency has listed Switzerland’s long-celebrated yodeling among 67 traditions honored on its list of ...

Italian cooking joins French gastronomy and Mexican cuisine on UNESCO’s list of global cultural gems, setting off celebration ...

After seventeen years of grassroots youth activities and international cooperation, the World Heritage Volunteers (WHV) ...

Celebrated on 11 December, International Mountain Day reminds us of the essential role mountains play in sustaining life.

Each year, UNESCO recognizes culturally significant practices, traditions and customs. 2025's list includes weaving, handmade paper craftsmanship, yurt making, a genre of Cuban music and yodeling.

In Icelandic, "Vatnajökull" means "the water glacier." At over 3,000 square miles, this massive ice cap covers more than eight percent of Iceland. "I remember the first time I seen a glacier, it moved ...

The US boasts 26 Unesco World Heritage sites, some of which are globally famous, like the Grand Canyon, while others are less ...

This week, all eyes have been on UNESCO, the France-based body that bestows the ranking of “World Heritage Site” on some of the world’s most beautiful, historic and otherwise important places. In many ...