Programmes for tourists: UNESCO INTANGIBLE CULTURAL HERITAGE OF HUMANITY Ethnographic Regions of ESTONIA - Setomaa, Kihnu Island LATVIA - Suiti Land, Livonian Coast

The programmes allow visitors to experience four unique and different ethnographic regions where authentic traditions are still part of peoples’ everyday life. They are: Setomaa region (Estonia), Kihnu island (Estonia), Suiti cultural space (Latvia) and the Livonian coast (Latvia) presenting UNESCO heritage in the following ways:

• UNESCO proclaimed Intangible Cultural Heritage:
  • SETO LEELO, Seto polyphonic singing tradition;
  • KIHNU cultural space;
  • SMOKE SAUNA tradition in Võromaa; - SUITI cultural space.
• On the National List of Intangible Cultural Heritage of Latvia:
  • the LIVONIAN Cultural space. Livonian community has made a commitment to prepare a nomination for UNESCO Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity.