Spain Opens Procedure to Declare Falconry Intangible Cultural Heritage as Galicia Resolution Appears in Official Gazette
Spain's Official State Gazette (BOE) published on October 24 a resolution dated September 22 by the Directorate General for Cultural Heritage of Galicia's Department of Culture, Language and Youth, opening the procedure to declare falconry (cetrería) an Asset of Cultural Interest (BIC) in the category of intangible heritage.
The resolution appeared in Section III of issue 264 of the Gazette, published that Saturday. With the procedure now open, the supporting case on falconry's historical transmission, body of techniques and community practice will be assembled before a final declaration is decided.
Falconry, the art of training birds of prey to hunt, has centuries of tradition in Spain and already forms part of a multinational inscription on UNESCO's Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity.
In Spain, procedures to recognise a living cultural practice as an Asset of Cultural Interest are initiated by the regional government concerned, and the opening resolution is published in the Official State Gazette for public notice.
Source: Official State Gazette (BOE), Spain
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Photo: 图：猎鹰术驯鹰人。Krzysztof Wiśniewski 摄，Wikimedia Commons，CC BY-SA 4.0。 / Photo: A falconer in falconry. Photo by Krzysztof Wiśniewski, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0.
