In Portugal, Armenia and Croatia, the Asiago Prize of the Fifty Years

Austria is recognized by the Academy of Filatelia and Postal History, at the Vatican that of the Olympic Academy

Tradition and contemporaneity expertly mixed by Jorge Macedo in the Christmas leaflet of 3.50 euros have made Portugal,represented in Asiago by Isabel Fonseca, the trophy of Giò Tomato of the International Asiago Prize of philatelic art of the 50th anniversary. Of the issue - Oscar world of philately -, that in the star placed above the hut was inserted a bright diode that is activated by connection with the mobile phone the Judging College (Ra'l Berzosa, Franco Filanci, Gian Antonio Stella, Maurizio Stella, Gaetano Thiene, Luca Vangelli and Marco Ventura) appreciated the " unusually original way from thecreative, graphic and even technical point of view with which the classic iconography of Christmas is presented: with the silhouette of the hut in the center of the entire leaflet, the theater of a Nativity with ox and donkey in the foreground

Best contribution to tourism in tooth format has been identified in the lakes of Plitvice of The most famous National Park of Croatia. Suggestive the juxtaposition"of close-ups of waterfalls large and small and the tranquil landscape of one of Plitvice's 16 terraced lakes",since 1979 Unesco World Heritage Site.  The leaflet, divided into four different rods, was worked by Ivana Vucic and Tomislav Yurica Ka'euni,using photographs taken by Ivo Pervan, Mario Romulii i Dr.J. Stoj.

After pointing out that the stamp marked the beginning of globalization, in withdrawing the recognition theAmbassador of Zagreb, Jasen Mesi,did not fail to refer to another tourist stamp of the Post Office of Craoazia, the one with a view of Rovigno,in the first edition released with the inscription in the local language only, eliciting the right protests of the National Association Venice Giulia and Dalmatia as well as Senator Carlo Giovanardi, who the ambassador thanked for his documented intervention that led to the reissue of the same postal value card with the inscription in double language: Rovinj and Rovingno. First issue, in the post-war period than on a stamp relating to Istria in which a name appears in double language. "Even the stamps – this is the conclusion of the ambassador – can become a symbol of peace."

In the "intelligent and simple presentation of a common swallow idealized in the style of the ancient Armenian miniatures, against a background that consthetically and artistically depicts the flora typical of this Caucasian region", a kind of anthem to the environment has been identified. Hence the award to Armenia – due to Ashkhen (Mila) Khandzratsyan and completed by the postEurop brand – of the Asiago International Prize for the Environment. Words of complacency were expressed by the Armenian consul Gagik Sarucanian.

This year's traditional Asiago philatelic awards have been joined by the awards of two prestigious academies. The Olympic,founded in 1555 by a group of 21 citizens of Vicenza and currently chaired by Gaetano Thiene, who is also president of the International Asiago of Filatelic Art Prize,has dropped its preference for the issue of the Vatican celebrating the 350 years since the death of Rembrant vam Rijn. Appreciated the unusual presentation due by Marina Richterov. "Not one of his many self-portraits or his famous work, but an original drawing that portrays him in his authoritative composure in the act of exercising his fine art, as if it were an engravingof his . "

"Fivestamps,representing Bosnia and Herzegovina, Hungary, Vatican City, Serbia and France – to reveal it was Gaetano Thiene - arrived in the final,the Olympic Academy eventually opted for the Vatican one of Rembrandt",of "Calvinist father and Catholic mother" who addressed religious issues in an innovative way for his time and for his area of action". The Italian Academy of Filatelia and Postal History,chaired by Franco Filanci,in Asiago represented by Vice President Lorenzo Carra has identified in a stamp of Austria what best enhances the creativity applied to the stamp. Motivating his choice in the intriguing "daily life question that emerges from three spectacular photographs taken in 2007 by the artist Anna Jermolaewa: Why is a quarter at three is a little better than a quarter at five and much more than 5 minutes at five o'clock? The answer is in the friendly first photograph, where the horizontal hands allow more pigeons to stop, which Austria has proposed in the annual series dedicated to photographic art, showing all the topicality and the original symbolism". For the stamp, Franco Filanci, president of the Academy of Philately and Postal History, pointed out, "art today is becoming more and more vital".

The Marcophilus memory of the event was entrusted to two annulment, the Italian one representing an owl and that of San Marino signed by Tullio Pericoli.

In the hall of the Paintings of the Town Hall was also exhibited the carved wooden version of the tourist stamp of Asiago issued by Poste Italiane in 1979,with which its author, Marco Pangrazio,won the 38th edition of the special Asian competitions.