UNESCO's decision to include the
art of the Neapolitan pizza-maker as a contender to join its
World Heritage List is a "great opportunity", said Culture
Minister Dario Franceschini on Friday.
The candidacy for the UN organisation's Representative List
of Intangible Cultural Heritage is based on a proposal by the
agriculture ministry with the backing of the foreign,
university, environment and economy ministries.
"Becoming world heritage isn't just the way to recognise a
true art, but also the way to claim pizza as Italian,"
Franceschini said.
"Pizza has become such a global product that many countries
have, as a matter of fact, forgotten that it's Italian or
Neapolitan," he said.
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