Premio Colosseo

The Premio Colosseo is a prize awarded to a person who has enhanced the image of the city of Rome. It was inaugurated in 2009, the 2000th anniversary of the birth of emperor Vespasian, builder of the Colosseum.^[1] The award is a silver model of the Colosseum.^[2]

List of winners of the Premio Colosseo

2009: Franco Zeffirelli, Italian film director^[1]
2010: Lindsey Davis, English author whose Falco books are set in Rome^[3]

References

1 2 "Premio Colosseo". Colosseum in Rome. Retrieved 20 January 2014.
↑ "Lindsey's page". Lindsey Davis website. Retrieved 3 November 2010.
↑ "Management Committee". Society of Authors. Retrieved 3 November 2010.

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