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10. LE COLLINE DEL PROSECCO DI CONEGLIANO E the entire region of Dalmatia, namely Karst areas. The
VALDOBBIADENE fields and vineyards are rectangular, trapezoidal or
Located in north-eastern Italy, the property includes irregular in shape, and are delimited by rock fragments
part of the wine growing landscape of the Prosecco hand-picked during that demanding land acquisition.
wine production area. The landscape is characterized by
"hogback "hills, ciglioni- small plots of vines on narrow The nomination will evidently be based primarily
grass terraces – forests, small villages and farmland. on this unique method of cultivating the land under
For centuries, this rugged terrain has been shaped difficult conditions and the extraordinary value of the
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and adapted by man. Since the 17 century, the use of landscape resulting from this method. In comparison
ciglioni has created a particular chequerboard landscape with the fertile soils in the Žatec region, the methods
consisting of rows of vines parallel and vertical to the of field/hop field preparation have differed significantly
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slopes. In the 19 century, the bellussera technique from the method described.
of training the vines contributed to the aesthetic
characteristics of the landscape. This technique consisted 2. NEGOTINSKE PIVNICE
of lifting the vine up to 4 metres above the ground and The Negotinske Pivnice is a series of ensembles of rural
arranging it in an arch; raised in this way, the plant buildings, especially wine cellars, located in the border
was protected and could grow and expand, which was area of Negotin in eastern Serbia. These cellars were
reflected in the visual dynamics of the landscape. used to process grapes into wine and brandy, as well as
storage facilities. The significance of these settlements
is reflected in the fact that these wine cellars were
B. Vineyard landscapes on the Tentative List (TL) often built as more monumental and better quality
In addition to the number of vineyard landscapes structures than family houses were. These cellars and
registered on the WHL, a number of countries have in the wine were incorporated in many birth and burial
recent years extended the Tentative List (updated as at rituals. Even today, an archaic and very interesting
April 2020) with several other landscapes with vineyards custom has been preserved - the last rites and funeral
and vineyard buildings (plans from Spain, Hungary and ceremony are performed with wine, and for those who
South Africa, Serbia, Croatia and Peru). have their own cellars, the funeral ceremony takes
place in the cellars complex, while for others, in the
1. PRIMOŠTEN VINEYARDS village.
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represent a traditional form of cultivating a specific The monumental preserved buildings for processing
kind of Mediterranean soil, characterised by a dense and preserving wine and brandy represent the main
concentration of rocks, which has to be extracted bearer of values. This property does obviously not have
manually and with great human effort in order to the intention of nomination as a cultural landscape, but
acquire a small quantity of soil for cultivation. This belongs to the topic of wine growing and processing,
method of soil cultivation is generally characteristic of and is included here for completeness.

Vineyard landscapes on the Tentative List (TL). The brief description is arranged in the order of entries on the TL.

YEAR OF
STATE PROPOSED
NAME PLANT/CROP INCLUSION
PARTY CRITERIA
ON TL
1. Primošten Vineyards Grapevines and wine production Croatia (v), (vi) 2007

Grapevines
However it is the wine cellars that
2. NegotinskePivnice Serbia (iii), (iv), (v), (vi) 2010
form the essence of the
nomination
La Rioja and Rioja Alavesa Vine and Wine
3. Grapevines and wine production Spain (ii), (iii), (v), (vi) 2013
Cultural Landscape
4. Early Farmsteads of the Cape Winelands Grapevines and wine production South Africa (ii), (iii), (iv), (v) 2015

The nomination also includes
5. Balaton Uplands Cultural Landscape Hungary (iv), (v), (vii) 2017
vineyards
6. The Wine in Iberia Grapevines and wine production Spain (ii), (iii), (iv) 2018

Wineries and Vineyards for traditional Grapevines and wine and pisco
7. Peru (ii), (iv) 2019
Pisco Production production