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In 2001, the Opera dei Pupi was included in the UNESCO program established in 1999 Masterpieces of the Oral and Intangible Heritage of Humanity on 17 October 2003, UNESCO approved in Paris the Convention for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage. The Convention came into force on 20 April 2006, which led, starting in 2008, to the establishment of the Intangible Heritage List in this list were automatically incorporated all the elements previously included in the list of Masterpieces of the Intangible Heritage of Humanity established in 1999, among the elements included, two high expressions of the Italian popular cultural tradition, the Opera dei Pupi Siciliani and the Canto a Tenores of the shepherds of central Sardinia.