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The Romanian Ministry of Culture announced on that Romania’s Lipizzan horse breeding tradition was inscribed on UNESCO’s Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity.
According to the ministry, UNESCO’s Intergovernmental Committee for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity, meeting in Rabat, Morocco, decided to inscribe in the Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity Lipizzan horse breeding traditions from seven countries – Austria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Italy, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia and Hungary – where the heritage has been active and uninterrupted.
„Romania owes its inscription to research carried out by Ioana Baskerville of the Ministry of Culture’s National Committee on Safeguarding the Intangible Cultural Heritage, which enjoyed constant specialist support and expertise from the Romsilva National Forestry Corporation – the Directorate for Growth, Exploitation and Improvement of Horses at the Ministry of the Environment, Waters and Forestry, which manages Romania’s two largest stud farms of Lipizzani horses: Sambata de Jos, located in the village of Sambata de Jos, Brasov County, and Beclean in the town of Beclean, Bistrita-Nasaud County.”
The ministry says that the modern Lipizzan horse breed was generated in 1580 in the town of Lipizza, in today’s Slovenia.
„The beginnings of the breed in Romania go as far back as the 18th century, with the expansion of this breed through the system of stud farms and remount depots of the Habsburg Empire. The Romanian tradition of breeding these horses started in 1874 as a result of moving herds of the imperial stud at Mezohegyes, in today’s Hungary, to an imperial estate at Sambata de Jos, in the Olt Valley. On October 8, 1920, Romania establishes the Sambata de Jos state stud farm using for this purpose mainly horses from breeders in the villages of Sarii Fagarasului,