Document: N1413
Date: 2009/10/08
Author: Enrico
Vicario
Dept.Sistemi e Informatica, Università di
Firenze
3, via santa Marta, 50139, Firenze, Italy
++39 055 4796526
VENUE
The meeting will take place in the didactic center
of the University of
Florence at Viale Morgagni, which is the site that hosts
teachnig activities for the first three years of the engineering
school as well as a number of other courses in the medicine
school, in computer science and biology. The site is in the town
of Florence, at a distance of 30 minutes by bus from the
historical downtown. The meeting will be organized in a room
equipped with projector (if you need I can also provie a laptop
from my lab). The site provides wireless internet access to every
attendant (under compilation of a personal
identification form, as required by the Italian law). The site
includes a bar service that also provides meals. If you want, a
catering service can be organized in the room, or perhaps more
conveniently, we can organize a quick lunch in a restaurant which
is just in front of the site.
ACCOMMODATION
For accommodation, I suggest Hotel Raffaello
which is a very comfortable 4-star hotel at 10 minutes walk from
the site and applies a special rate of 100 euro per night
in a double room used by a single person including
breakfast for University guests (I understand that this is
not cheap, but consider that Hotels in Florence are really very
expensive. Maybe that if we book in a single group for at least
ten people we can have a further reduction). Alternatively, we
also have a special arrangement with Hotel Guelfo Bianco, which is
much closer to the historical downtown, but requires a 30 minutes
bus to reach viale Morgagni.
CONNECTION
Florence can be reached through train (is a
node of the high speed network connecting Torino, Milano,
Venezia, Bologna, Firenze, Roma, Napoli). The central station is
30 minutes by bus from viale Morgagni. Florence has a city
airport connected to the major european hubs served by major
european carriers (including airfrance, lufthansa, Swiss,
Airfrance, Merdiana). Florence can also be efficiently reached
from the airporto f Pisa, which also hosts various low-costo
companies and is connected to Florence thorugh a 1 hour train
from the airport. By the way, the line from Pisa also stops at
the station of Rifredi, which is 10 minutes walk from the site of
Viale Morgani and form Hotel Raffaello. Finally, Florence can
also be reached from Bologna, which has an efficient airport and
is connected to Florence through high speed trains. I do not
recommend to use Fiumicino in Roma or Malpensa in Milano, both of
which for various bad reasons are not able to provide a
reasonable connection to Firenze. In case you should choose one
of the two, Malpensa is certainly the worst.