Location of the conference

The conference will take place in the downtown of Padua in two different closer historical sites.

Thursday, april 2004, 22

Archivio Antico, Palazzo Bo - Via VIII Febbraio, 2

Friday, april 2004, 23

Aula di Studi Internazionali, Facoltà di Scienze Politiche - Via del Santo, 28

Download your own card on the website " Map and cards in Padova" :
http://italie.express-map.com/plan-padoue/


Download general map of Padua with locations of the conferences

Transport :

Padua is located between Venice, 40 km in the east (20 minutes by train), and Verona in the west. Many airports permit to reach Padua.

Padoue is on the railway line Milano-Venice. The station of Padua is
near the downtown, in the north of the city.

Padoue can be easily visited by by feet or by ACAP bus

Flights

List of airline companies going to Italy

www.airdolomiti.it	www.airfrance.fr	www.air-one.it
www.alpieagles.com	www.alitalia.it	www.aua.com
www.britishairways.com	www.easyjet.com	www.finnair.com
www.gandalfair.it	www.lufthansa.it	www.meridiana.it
www.ryanair.com	www.volareweb.com au départ d'Orly	www.virgin-express.com

Travel by train

You will find all the information on www.trenitalia.it or your national operator, for example www.voyages-sncf.com. Night trains make it possible to join easily Padua from South Italy, Germany or Austria, Spain.

Venice

From Venice, bus or train permits to reach Padua in 1 hour

Departure april 21 by bus:

Departure april 21 by train

A train ticket Venise/Padoue costs approximately 9 euros. The trip is about 30 minutes. FrequentDepartures from station Venezia S Lucia or Venezia Mestre to Padua. You can buy it on the French www.sncf.fr or Italian site www.trenitalia.it

Departure april 2004 21

From Verona

The main railway station is “Verona Porta Nuova” at the crossing of the railways Milan-Venice and Rome-Brenner. Verona/Villafranca’s airport is situated approximately 10 km S-W from the city centre. There is a shuttle-bus service to and from the airport every 20 minutes.(For more informations : APTV +39-0458057911 – www.aptv.it)

For information about time tables and prices: www.trenitalia.it

From Brescia

There is also a daily shuttle bus service to and from Brescia Montichiari airport (Ryanair Flights). The Bus stop is in front of the Railway Station.
For information: Tel +39-0309656511 or www.aeroportobrescia.it.

From Treviso

If you wish to reach Padua, best solution is to hire a car.
Ryannair bus permit to reach Venice. From Venice, you can easily use correspondences to go to Padua.

From Milan Linate

take the bus until the central station.

Accomodation :

hotels really near the conference:

List of websites with hotels :

	Only in italian THE guide of Padua with a nice list of accomodation and their precise situation in the city and surroundings
	A list of hotels with links is available on the website of Padua Tourism
	A list of hotels with links is available on the regional office of Venecie

Booking central

	The most important choice to choose hotels, B & B, Guest House, Hostels ..... with a presentation of the accomodation and a form for booking, few booking on line but prompt answer ensured.
	A lot of bad answers (surroundings of Padova), fares are not always the best but there are choices !
	Restricted choice but booking on line for each hotel
	restricted choice also but with more information, booking on line
	a selection quite different, but you have to call!!

Tourism:

Probably better known as the city of St. Anthony or as the economic capital of Veneto, Padua is one of the most important Art Cities in Italy.
Padua's origins are very ancient. In the 4th century B.C. it rose from a fishing village to become the most important centre of the Veneto people. Allied with the Romans against the Gauls, it became a Roman Municipium in 45 B.C. and reached a high degree of economic prosperity and great urban development under Augustus.
However, the town suffered a mortal blow when the Longobards set fire to it in 602.
Recovery was slow.

At the beginning of the twelfth century Padua was a free Commune and by the second half of the following century (after the parenthesis of the reign of Ezzelino da Romano) it was spreading its influence well beyond the Communal territory, clashing with the emperor, Arrigo VII, and with the La Scala family (1311-1329). During the long war the Da Carrara family came to the fore and was granted seigneury of the town. (1338-1405). During the thirteenth century and for the whole of the fourteenth century the city went through a period of great cultural and artistic fervour. The first circle of walls was built, followed by the Palazzo della Ragione, the Basilica of St. Anthony and the Church of the Eremitani. The University was founded in 1222; it was the second in Italy and attracted teachers and scholars from all over Europe. Both Dante and Petrarch stayed in Padua. The artistic scene was dominated by Giotto, whose masterpiece is the decoration of the Scrovegni Chapel (1303-1305). Artists such as Guariento, Altichiero and Giusto followed in the wake of the master, creating cycles of frescoes of unparalleled artistry.
The enlightened seigneury of the Da Carrara family came to an end in 1405; Padua fell under the dominion of Venice, whose fate it shared until the end. Padua remained a leader in the artistic field at least till the mid fifteenth century, thanks to the presence of Donatello and Mantegna.
Padua continued its renewal in the sixteenth century: the new circle of fortified walls was built; the new Town Hall, the Palazzo del Capitanio, the imposing Basilica of S. Giustina and the new Cathedral were also built. The University too knew a period of great splendour, with the Botanic Garden and the Anatomy theatre, the new Palazzo del Bo, where Galileo Galilei taught. During the following three centuries Padua underwent a slow economic decline, reflected in the modesty of private and public buildings. The last great piece of town planning was the rearrangement of Prato della Valle (1775). After the fall of Venice (1797) and the period of Napoleonic rule, Padua passed into Austrian hands (1813) and this situation continued until 1866 when the town was annexed to the kingdom of Italy. Starting from the early years of the twentieth century, a new period of economic growth began, thanks to the development of industry, trade and tertiary services; this trend was strengthened in the period between the two wars and accelerated even more during the last thirty years, thus making Padua the most important managerial pole in North-East Italy.

The Province has a vast but little-known cultural and artistic heritage and great natural assets. One has only to think of the Euganean Hills' rich flora, of the countless villas and castles scattered all over the area, of the monasteries and churches built by the monastic orders, real treasure-troves of artistic works, of the mediaeval walled towns (Cittadella, Este, Monselice, Montagnana ), of the network of rivers, streams and canal, and of the many old farmhouses.

More information Touristie.com or on the website of Padua tourism office

complete Information about Giotto
http://www.giottoagliscrovegni.it/eng/home.html

Frescoes by Giotto
http://www.kfki.hu/~arthp/html/g/giotto/padova/

Links to monuments to visit in Padua
http://digilander.libero.it/clapad5/padova/links.html

Others :

Padua Tourism office
http://www.turismopadova.it/

Weather in Padua
http://www.linkfr.com/meteo/italie/

Tourism on the topic "Padoue, ville d'eau et ses navigables" in french
http://www.padovanavigazione.it/fr/itinerari1.htm