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A shared Czech, Latvian, Polish, and Austrian tradition inscribed on the UNESCO heritage list
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A shared Czech, Latvian, Polish, and Austrian tradition inscribed on the UNESCO heritage list

Six European countries have jointly nominated a medieval method of timber rafting to UNESCO’s Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity. Generations of knowledge and a thorough understanding of the power of nature—this is what UNESCO experts have rewarded by adding the art of timber rafting