Belgium
- Beer culture in Belgium
- Safeguarding the carillon culture: preservation, transmission, exchange and awareness-raising
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- Bruges: The city of beer, canals, and a beautiful beguinage
- Foods of Belgium & the Dutch
- Ghent: The city of Van Eyck, belfry, and french fries
Germany
- Craft techniques and customary practices of cathedral workshops, or Bauhütten, in Europe, know-how, transmission, development of knowledge and innovation
- Organ craftsmanship and music
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Greece
- Mediterranean diet (same as Italy & Spain)
- Tinian marble craftsmanship
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Italy
- Art of Neapolitan ‘Pizzaiuolo’
- Mediterranean diet (same as Greece & Spain)
- Alpinism
- Truffle hunting and extraction in Italy, traditional knowledge and practice (I didn’t get to go on a truffle hunt but I certainly ate a lot of truffles while in Lombardy)
- The art of glass beads
- Transhumance, the seasonal droving of livestock along migratory routes in the Mediterranean and in the Alps (I saw sheep & a shepherd house in the Alps, I did not participate in any droving)
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Mexico
- Traditional Mexican cuisine – ancestral, ongoing community culture, the Michoacán paradigm
- Indigenous festivity dedicated to the dead (didn’t see them first hand because it was not the season but saw the cemeteries)
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The Netherlands
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Spain
- Mediterranean diet (same as Greece & Italy)
- Fiesta of the patios in Cordova
- Flamenco
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Switzerland
- Craftsmanship of mechanical watchmaking and art mechanics
- Avalanche risk management (I was in the Swiss mountains during winter and did not die by avalanche…counts?)
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