[asac] ASAC face to face logistics
Leonardo Testi
lt at arcetri.astro.it
Mon Jul 17 09:10:03 EDT 2006
Hi all,
I reserved a room for the ASAC meeting at the Convitto della
Calza (www.calza.it) a few rooms are avvailable at the meeting center
for the nights of Sep 15 and Sep 16 (a larger number for Sep 16
only). All the hotels are at walking distance from the center.
Please let me know if you are having any problems with the Hotel
reservations (note that some of the options were expiring this week).
Those of you who would like to stay at the meeting center, please
drop me a note (with the expected dates of arrival/departure).
Leonardo
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Hi all,
(John, I seem to have lost the list of invitees, please forward
this info along with the invitation or just resend me the names)
as I mentioned at the telecon, it is difficult to find rooms in
Florence for the weekend of Sep 16/17. I have pre-reserved a number
of rooms in the following Hotels. All these are very close to the
location of the conference center where I am trying to book a room
for us (few min walking).
You need to contact the Hotels directly and define the dates of your
stay, I have pre-booked the rooms for the nights 15-16-17. Remember
to mention that you are from the ALMA meeting group.
Hotel Classic - has parking, very few rooms available
tel +39055229351 fax. +39055229353
www.classichotel.it
Hotel Annalena
tel +39055222402 fax. +39055222403
www.hotelannalena.it
Hotel Boboli
tel. 0552298645 fax +390552337169
www.hotelboboli.com
I am also looking for other possibilities and hope to send more
options in a few days. The conference center may have a small number
of rooms available for the nights 15-16 and some more for 16 only, so
if you are planning to leave on sunday evening this is a good
possibility. Please let me know if this may work for you.
Traveling info.
If you cannot find a convenient connection to Florence, I mentioned a
few weeks ago that one possibility could be to fly to Pisa. Within
Pisa airport there is a train station (Pisa Aeroporto) which allows a
connection to Florence main station (Firenze S.M.N.). Sometimes the
connection is direct, sometimes a change in Pisa Centrale is needed.
Direct trains from Pisa Aeroporto to Firenze S.M.N. on Sept 15 are
at: 10:42, 11:43, 12:43, 17:53, 18:43, 19:53. You can check the
complete timetable at: http://www.trenitalia.it/en/index.html
(be sure to enter the exact station names as above).
Touristic info.
Many state museums will close on MONDAY, e.g. the Galleria degli
Uffizi. If enough people are interested, we can try to organize a
visit to the Uffizi and the Corridoio Vasariano on Sunday afternoon.
The Corridoio Vasariano is a long passage that was used to link the
Medici Palace (Palazzo Pitti in oltrarno) with Palazzo Vecchio and
the Uffizi (the government offices). It runs over the Old Bridge and
offers a very unusual view of Florence. The Museum of history of
science, which holds an interesting Astronomical collection with some
Galileo's instruments, is closed on Sunday.
If you need expensive shoes, purses or clothes, you will certainly
find a place to spend your money, apparently it is impossible to buy
anything else in the center of Florence, perhaps we are supposed to
even start eating these for breakfast...
Leonardo
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