Read about: Italy and other news about Rome city and hotels in Rome. This year Italy is celebrating the 500th anniversary of Andrea Palladio's birth. A series of festive events will be held in Vicenze, "the city of Palladio", as well as throughout the whole country. Mass media will give a full coverage of the coming events, and in the end of the year special prizes will be awarded to the journalists for best articles and television reports about the great architect. The participation at the competition is allowed to people who are registered as licensed journalists and freelance journalists, whose articles will be published on newspapers with regional, national and international circulation, on magazines with national and international circulation and whose television reports will be produced in Italy and broadcast at Italian or international level. The award is divided in three categories: articles published in the Italian press, articles published in the international press, television reports produced in Italy and broadcast in Italy or abroad.
