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UNESCO: Chiprovtsi Carpets are global cultural heritage

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Today, at a Paris-held sitting,the Intergovernmental Committee for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage has unanimously enlisted into the Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity Bulgaria’s application of Chiprovski Kilimi (Chiprovtsi Carpets). The ministry of culture presented the candidacy to the UNESCO end-March 2013. The looming of Chiprovski Kilimi is the third Bulgarian element enlisted there, after the Bistrica Babi (Grannies) and Nestinarstvo (Dance on Fire).



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