Environment Minister Tanchos Barna on Friday congratulated the institutions that contributed to the inclusion of the Lipi people in the UNESCO heritage, and said that for the first time the breed of horse and the tradition of raising this animal were added, News .ro writes. The minister also reported that Romsilva has two stud farms of this breed.

“The tradition of breeding Lipitsa horses was included in UNESCO’s Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity. The breed of horses and the traditions of breeding this animal are included in the UNESCO Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity for the first time,” said the Minister of Ecology on Friday.

Tanchos Barna clarified that among the successor states of the Austro-Hungarian monarchy, eight countries (Austria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Italy, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia and Hungary) jointly proposed the tradition of breeding Lipitian horses, a fact that indicates close cooperation and collaboration between these countries.

Romsilva has two stud farms of this breed in Brasov and Bistrica-Neseud

“In Romania, Romsilva operates two stud farms of the Lipita breed in Brasov county, in Sambeta de Jos and in the city of Beclean in Bistrica-Neseud county. We congratulate Minister Lucian Romaškana, respectively, State Secretary Demetra András Istvan, as well as specialists from the Ministry of Culture from the Romsilva National Directorate of Forests, who, thanks to their expertise, contributed to this extraordinary result,” the minister added. .

UNESCO’s Intergovernmental Committee for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage approved on Thursday the inclusion of elements in the Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity “The art of high-waisted shirts is an element of cultural identity in Romania and the Republic of Moldova” and “Traditions of horse breeding from Lipica”.