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Intangible cultural heritage is in vogue. With this clear statement, we seek to reflect on the evolution that this heritage area has undergone since UNESCO produced the Convention for the Safeguarding of Intangible Cultural Heritage in 2003. It was ratified by Spain in 2005 and subsequently embodied in tools such as the Spanish National Plan for Safeguarding Intangible Cultural Heritage (2011), the Safeguarding the Cultural Heritage Act 10/2015, of 26 May, and the different reforms implemented to include the term and their application in regional legislation.

In recent years, its development has led to the emergence of debates mainly focused on the different management models for the heritage status processes, its consideration in relation to other tangible heritage areas, and the role played by the carrier community, with the latter taken to be the set of key players of the different intangible practices classified according to the areas established by the 2003 Convention.
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