1. By plane to Pisa or Florence and then by train. You can check the railways schedule at www.trenitalia.com
2. By Car:
   • from Florence: take the A11 Highway (Firenze-Pisa Nord), exit at Lucca tollgate;
   • from Pisa (Nord) : take the A11 Highway (Pisa Nord-Firenze), exit at Lucca tollgate; from Genova : take the A12 Highway (Genova-Livorno), enter the A11 Highway at Viareggio (direction Firenze), exit at Lucca tollgate;
   • from Rome : take the A1 Highway (Roma-Milano), enter the A11 Highway (Firenze-Pisa Nord), at Firenze (direction Pisa Nord), exit at Lucca tollgate;
   • from Milan : take the A1 Highway (Milano-Roma), enter the A15 Highway at Parma Ovest (direction La Spezia), enter the A12 Highway after Aulla (direction Livorno), enter the A11 Highway at Viareggio (direction Firenze), exit at Lucca tollgate.

Yes, we would suggest you to take into consideration the opportunity of a taxi sharing system, which can be scheduled on the day of your arrival. Sharing the taxi with other participants would allow you not only to reduce the overall transportation expenses and enjoy a more comfortable journey, but also to save the time needed to get a taxi connection to and from the train stations.

Interested participants are encouraged to provide us with their time of arrival; two Ph.D. students Guerrazzi Marco (guerrazzi@ec.unipi.it) Corsini Lorenzo (lcorsini@ec.unipi.it) will kindly collect your schedule. We will then return you the information of the participants with traveling needs similar to yours, so that you may easily coordinate the transportation on the arrival.

Complesso San Micheletto, Via San Micheletto 3, Lucca. Near “Porta Elisa,” one of the old doors of the town, located on the South-East side of the town walls. An interactive map of the town can be found at http://www.luccavirtuale.it/walk/mappa/f-mappa.htm

Lucca is an old mostly pedestrian small town surrounded by ancient walls. You can find the location of your hotel and complete directions by clicking on the “how to reach the Conference” on the accommodation frame of our website.

The hotel "Granduca" is located in S. Giuliano Terme and it is easily connected to the site of the conference both by train and by bus. The S. Giuliano Terme train station is located 100m from the hotel, whereas the Lucca train station only 500m from the site conference. The train schedule from and to S. Giuliano can be found at www.trenitalia.com. Moreover, the hotel will organize a bus service to the conference in the morning and to the hotel in the evening of each day.

Yes, each session room is provided with a computer projector.

Please note that only rooms from 1 to 4 are provided with overhead projectors. (Room numbers correspond to the session number: room 1 for session A1, and so on).

All participants, but in particular those presenting in rooms from 5 to 7 are kindly encouraged to use their own portable computer. Only in case of extreme need, one computer can be made available, with the warning that it may cause delays because of change of platform and settings and other organizational issues.

We will provide a bus service to and from the restaurant. In the second evening we will arrange meeting points near your hotel.

In the evening of June 16, we will provide a bus service that will allow you to take part to the St. Ranieri Candlelight Festival, the celebration of the patron saint of Pisa. Busses will be parked at the Economics Faculty parking area in via Matteotti (point P, map below). The event takes place on the “lungarni” the river banks of the town, starting at “ponte della Fortezza” (point R).

The architectural details of the palaces – windows, cornices, balconies – the parapets of the river and the bridges will be glowing in the reflected light of over 70,000 ‘lumini’ (small glass lamps burning oil or wax) while thousands of lighted candles will float on the waters of the Arno. The celebration will end with a firework spectacle best visible from the west side of the town. Busses will be filled and return back to Lucca on a first come first served basis, within midnight.