Success of the Falconry Festival

This exceptional cultural event, organised under the theme "Falconry: ancestral tradition and universal heritage" and which coincides with the third anniversary of the classification of falconry on the UNESCO representative list as Living Human Heritage, serves several objectives. It pays tribute to the ancient Lekouassem falconers who knew how to preserve and perpetuate the traces of a centuries-old legacy. It also makes it possible to keep the torch of this tradition, which was considered lost forever, burning. By celebrating the rebirth of falconry in the province of El Jadida, through this second Festival, the organisers also aspired to bring back to the forefront other aspects of this heritage, notably the know-how in terms of hunting instruments, traditional clothing, music, singing, dancing, and culinary art, without forgetting the essential horse that once participated in falcon…