“Unity Makes…Intangible Heritage: Italy and Network Nomination”

This article seeks to outline the process that began in Italy in 2011 to submit a network nomination that would include four cities in the Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity on the basis of their shared tradition of feasts with large “festive machines.” Before analyzing this process of constructing a sort of “shared heritage” among multiple cities, I would like to introduce the analytical work I have carried out in relation to one of these feasts