TEHRAN -- The deputy minister of cultural heritage, tourism and handicrafts says so far 26 tangible cultural works and 21 intangible cultural elements from Iran have been registered in the UNESCO world list.
Ali Darabi said Iran is among the top 10 countries in the world in terms of intangible cultural heritage.
“In two decades, due to the conditions of the revolution and the imposed war, the registration of intangible works from Iran was delayed, otherwise, according to UNESCO experts, we could have been in the first rank with Italy in the number of registered works,” he said.
For this year, Iran has the plan for world registration of 56 historical caravanserais, including Saad al-Sultaneh in Qazvin.
Naming calligraphy as an intangible heritage, Darabi emphasized that “regardless of the heritage honors the art has, calligraphy can be a light to draw the future of Islamic Iranian civilization and in the future research process as well as being considered as a successful example in re-creating the national art of attention.”