LIST OF ENDANGERED ACTIVITIES IN THE CENTERS OF UNESCO CITIES
The status of some of the activities on list may have changed by the time of its publication, for instance by becoming extinct.
BASIC TYPES OF ACTIVITIES:
- EVERYDAY LIFE
- REST AND RELAXATION
- FUN AND GAMES
- HOLIDAYS AND SPECIAL OCCASIONS
- SERVICES
- EXOTIC ACTIVITIES
LEVEL OF ENDANGERMENT:
- ENDANGERED
- CRITICALLY ENDANGERED
- ON THE VERGE OF EXTINCTION
TOP 10
ON THE VERGE OF EXTINCTION
- General practitioner
- Walking down the street in home clothes
- Hanging laundry from the windows
- Airing blankets from the windows
- Grocery stores
- Dry cleaners
- Downtown parking
- Doing laundry in the river
- Beating rugs
- Soccer in the streets
- Building forts
- Taking out the trash during the day
EVERYDAY LIFE
- Family life
- Going to work and school
- Pushing a baby carriage through the city center
- Going shopping
- Driving down the streets in a private automobile
- Parking/washing/fixing a car
- Taking out the trash
- Walking pets
- Sweeping
- Watering flowers in the windows / planting flowers in front of the house
- Hanging laundry
- Hanging laundry from the windows
- Washing the windows
- Washing a car
- Beating carpets
- Moving furniture
- Riding a bike / scooter / roller skates
- Airing blankets from the windows
- Window decorations
- Walking in home clothes
- Painting the house / gutters / railing / benches
- Transporting fertilizer (soil) in a wheelbarrow
- Carrying a ladder
- Washing laundry in the river
- Hurrying across town
- Home repair
REST AND RELAXATION
- Hanging around
- Lounging
- Sunning oneself
- Staring into space
- Looking out the window
- Sleeping, dozing
- Meeting / chatting on the corner
- Watching the sky
- Walking through the center
- Reading the newspaper / a book on a bench
- Philosophizing over a beer
- Sitting on a bench
- Sitting on a chair in front of the house
- Skipping stones on the water
- Singing / whistling
FUN AND GAMES
- Running
- Exercising
- Dancing
- Having a picnic
- Barbecuing
- Swimming in the river
- Swinging on a swing, climbing a jungle gym
- Looking for information in town – scavenger hunt
- Guided tour of town by locals
- Climbing trees
- Soccer in the streets
- Dodgeball and other ball games in the park
- Badminton
- Organized night swimming
- Fording the river
- Releasing paper boats
- Hide-and-seek
- Treasure hunt
- Board games / chess
- Roasting sausages
- Building dams out of stones
- Fishing
- Tossing Balloons back and forth
- Jump rope / hopscotch
- Jumping into the river
- Building forts
- Leading horses down to the river
- Night outing (“test of courage”)
- Plein-air drawing
- Tag
- Blind man’s buff
- What’s the Time, Mr. Fox?
- Red Light, Green Light
- Obstacle course
- Making flower wreaths
- String games (e.g., cat’s cradle)
- Gatherings of senior citizens
HOLIDAYS AND SPECIAL OCCASIONS
- School dance
- Baptism
- Wedding
- Funeral
- Fair
- Military celebration
- Children’s Day
- Sporting events
- Special attraction (circus / acrobatic or artistic performance)
- Traveling cinema, outdoor cinema
- Sunday mass
- Feasts, fairs
- Romani festival
- Golden wedding anniversary
SERVICES
- Grocery store
- Drug store
- Pharmacy
- Clothing store
- Toy store
- Fish and meats
- Dry cleaners
- Fruit and vegetable shop
- Fabrics and sewing needs
- Watch repair
- Hardware store
- Buffet-style diner
- Discounts for friends and acquaintances
- “Locals only” table at restaurant
- Palm-reading / card-reading by a fortune-teller in the street
- Sale of home products
- Famers’ markets
- Flea market
- Transporting locals across the river by raft
EXOTIC ACTIVITIES
- Free treats for locals
- Turning off / dimming the street lighting
- Turning off the castle lighting
- School group photo in the city center
- Group photo of locals
- Public reading of news (town crier)
- Sleeping on the square
- Pitching a tent on the square
- Czech lessons for tourists
- “Stolen Gallery” – taking over a noticeboard for locals’ ads
- Placing sculptures around town
- Polishing cobblestones
- Simulating life at the castle or monasteries
- Making pizza together at a local pizza parlor
- Open house at the rotating stage
- Open house at the school of art and music
- Group cooking with foreign residents of town
- Putting together an informal cultural information program and delivering it around town
- Town hall meeting held as part of an event on the square / in a park / outdoors
- Photo club for taking analog photographs and developing them (taking pictures of the things tourists do)
- Bus tour
- Climbing on the bridges
- Joint sewing / mending of socks
- Drawing what locals would like a brand new monument to look like (e.g., a new tower at Krumlov Castle)
- Putting up a teepee on the square with a “chill zone”
- Group dog walking without a leash
- Rolling inner tubes (from a tractor) across town
- Putting up posters / distributing flyers
- Night watchman
