The Prosecco Hills are not part of Unesco's World Heritage

The Prosecco Hills of Conegliano and Valdobbiadene do not enter, at least for the moment, on UNESCO's list of World Heritage Sites, the prestigious list of UNESCO . Among the 21 voters voted for 12 countries, up from 9. The result of the vote, Ansa learns, at the 42nd session of the World Heritage Committee (WHC), the UNESCO Committee, ongoing in Manama, Bahrain. 19659002] The majority required for immediate registration in the UNESCO Register was 14 of the 21 member countries of the Committee. According to what has been learned, they would support the candidacy of the Prosecco Hills of Conegliano and Valdobbiadene Angola, Azerbaijan, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Burkina Faso, Cuba, Guatemala, Kuwait, Tanzania, Uganda, Hungary, Zimbabwe. While oppositions would have been Australia, Brazil, China, Indonesia, Kyrgyzstan, Bahrain, Norway, St. Kitts and Nevis, Spain

In this context of substantial division ranks of electors, a simple antechamber of registration in the prestigious register of Unesco. This result was obtained, on the proposal of Tunisia and despite the opposition of Spain and Norway, after two hours of debate, as never seen before, and by putting pressure on the Italian-led interministerial commission. by the Under-Secretary for Foreign Affairs. Guglielmo Picchi with Ambbadador Vincenza Lomonaco (Permanent Representative of Italy to UNESCO), who led international negotiations for UNESCO's recognition of the landscape and environmental qualities of the area Prosecco DOCG

In the final decision The UNESCO Committee recognizes "the high potential of the candidate site, which has elements of uniqueness that need to be better specified, and invites Italy to submit the file with corrections required for registration next year "

Coldiretti:" Unfair rejection, retry "

" With the unjust rejection of the candidacy of the pros hills we do not let us not recognize here the importance of a territory endowed with an extraordinary historical, cultural and landscape value, capable of expressing a production that knew how to conquer the appreciation at the time of the event. global scale ". That's what Coldiretti says when commenting on the negative vote on the Veneto Venetian site's inscription "The Prosecco hills of Conegliano and Valdobbiadene" on the UNESCO list of protected cultural sites at UNESCO World Heritage Site

A decision that mortifies the great cultural value and the environment that agriculture plays in a territory where 15 municipalities are involved and more than 3,000 farmers who, explains Coldiretti, exploit about 5,000 hectares of vines . In terms of wine production – precise Coldiretti – 655211 hectoliters of DOCG certified wine are produced

Prosecco abroad drags the Italian bubbles which in 2017 – underlines Coldiretti – reached the record of 360 million liters exported to allow the dubbing of the prestigious champagne of the French cousins. The inscription on the patrimony of Unesco – continues Coldiretti – would have been an act of coherence after the inscription of "Hillsides, Houses and Cellars of Champagne" and "Climats of the vineyard of Burgundy" on UNESCO World Heritage List (organically evolved landscape category). There are therefore all the conditions to resubmit the application for support of which – says Coldiretti – there is also a 15% increase in exports in the first quarter of 2018.

Italy can count on many "treasures" registered on UNESCO's Representative List of Intangible Cultural Heritage, which has 365 elements on the representative list of 108 countries. The tricolor list includes the Opera dei pupi (recorded in 2008), the canto a tenore (2008), the Mediterranean diet (2010), the Arte del Violino of Cremona (2012), the shoulder machines for the procession (2013) and vine alberello de Pantelleria (2014), the art of the Neapolitan pizzaiuoli (2017) and Falconeria, an initiative in which Italy participates with 17 other countries. Besides intangible cultural heritage, UNESCO – concludes Coldiretti – has recognized over the years a list of sites, and Italy is the state that has the largest number in the world.