Basel Fasnacht is a world cultural heritage site
Unesco has inscribed the Basel Carnival on the Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity. This second Swiss entry follows the winegrowers' festival in Vevey, which was inscribed in 2016.
According to the Federal Office of Culture (FOC), Unesco judged the candidacy to be exemplary. Inclusion on the Representative List increases the visibility of intangible cultural heritage in urban areas and underlines the important role of language, in this case the Basel dialect, in communicating this cultural heritage.
In March 2016, the Basel Carnival was submitted by the BAK to UNESCO as the second Swiss candidacy for the Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity. At its meeting on Jeju Island (South Korea) on December 7, 2017, the twelfth Intergovernmental Committee for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage decided to include the Basel Fasnacht on the Representative List.
