Torneo A — MASTER — elo > 2000
14° Festival Città di Palmanova
27 Dec 2025 start-date 3 Jan 2026
Total prize fund 7500,00€
Nine rounds tournament with time control: 100min + 40min to the 40th move + 30sec bonus starting from the first move.
In the beautiful city of Palmanova, the only example of a city of foundation still intact in its form of a nine-pointed star, Palmanova is one of the most important models of military architecture in the modern age, with its star plan formed by three concentric walls, two of them built by the Serenissima
Republic of Venice made up of nine bulwarks and nine ravelins and a third, the most external, made up of nine “lunette”, added by Napoleon at the beginning of the 19th century.
In 1960 the fortress was declared a National Monument.
On July 9 2017 it became part of the UNESCO World Heritage Site.
Since 2018 it has also been included among the Most beautiful Borough in Italy.