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COST Action FP0703
Expected Climate Change

and Options for European Silviculture
ECHOES

Florence, 22-24 January 2009

Venue

AISF logo
Italian Academy of Forest Sciences

Piazza Edison 11

Florence (Italy)

General information

The participants will be charged at the registration desk with a conference fee that will include coffee breaks, lunches and access to the resources of the Academy (WiFi, printing and copying facilities).
Extra fees will be charged for:

- the social dinner
- the excursion scheduled for Saturday the 24th of January

Please note that only cash payments will be accepted (no credit cards).

More information regarding the social dinner and the excursion will be available soon in this web page.

In order to be able to request the reimbursement for travel expenses to COST office please take care to register BEFORE the meeting at https://www.cost.esf.org/e-cost/ .
For more information about eligible costs and reimbursement rules of COST office please give a look to the COST vademecum available on-line in the "COST guidelines" section of the COST web site http://www.cost.esf.org/index.php?id=guidelines .
Reimbursement forms will be distributed during the meeting.

How to reach the venue

By plane: from the Amerigo Vespucci airport by the ATAF bus "VOLAinBUS" to Santa Maria Novella (S.M.N.) railway station and then by ATAF bus n. 7, direction Fiesole. Get down at the bus stop "Piazza Edison"

By train: from the Santa Maria Novella (S.M.N.) railway station by ATAF bus n. 7, direction Fiesole. Get down at the bus stop "Piazza Edison".

By car: from motorway A1 exit "Firenze Sud". Then follow the signs to "Fiesole".

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Hotels

Here follow a list of pre-selected hotels. Most of them are in the downtown.

Other hotels are available at http://www.hoteltravel.com/italy/florence/hotels.htm

Please take care to make your own reservation.

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Hotel Basilea

Via Guelfa 41

web site: www.basilea.hotelinfirenze.com

Hotel Byron

Via della Scala 49

Ph.: +39 055 280852-3-4

Fax: +39 055 213273

e-mail: info@hotelbyron.firenze.it

web site: www.hotelbyron.firenze.it

Hotel La Gioconda

Via Panzani 2

Ph.: +39 055 211023 or +39 055 213150

Fax: +39 055 213136

e-mail: info@hotellagioconda.it

web site: www.hotellagioconda.it/en/index.htm

Hotel La Residenza

Via Tornabuoni 8

Ph.: +39 055 218684

Fax: +39 055 284197

e-mail: info@laresidenzahotel.com

web site: www.laresidenzahotel.com

Hotel Le Due Fontane

Piazza Ss Annunziata 14

Ph.: +39 055 210185

Fax: +39 055 294461

e-mail: info@leduefontane.it

web site: www.leduefontane.it

Hotel Macchiavelli

Via Nazionale 10

Ph.: +39 055 216622

Fax: +39 055 214106

e-mail: info@hotelmachiavelli.it

web site: www.hotelmachiavelli.it

Hotel Meridiana

Via Don Minzoni 25

e-mail: info@meridiana-hotel.it

web site: http://www.meridiana-hotel.it/

Hotel Pendini

Via Strozzi 2

Ph.: +39 055 211170

Fax: +39 055 281807

e-mail: pendini@florenceitaly.net

Hotel Rex

Via Faenza 6

Ph.: +39 055 210453

web site: www.hotelrexflorence.com/

Hotel Ritz

Lungarno della Zecca Vecchia 24

Ph.: +39 055 2340650

Fax: +39 055 240863

e-mail: ritz@florenceitaly.net

web site: www.florenceitaly.net/pagine/ritz

Hotel San Giorgio

Via San Antonino 3

Ph.: +39 055 284344

Fax: +39 055 283580

web site: www.hotelsangiorgioflorence.com

Hotel Ungherese

Via G. B. Amici 8

Ph.: +39 055 573474

Fax: +39 055 571409

e-mail: info@hotelungherese.it

web site: www.hotelungherese.it

Villa La Stella

Via Jacopone da Todi 12

Ph.: +39 055 5088018

Fax: +39 055 5535015

e-mail: villalastella@tiscali.it

web site: www.villalastella.it

Hotel Villa sull'Arno

Lungarno C. Colombo 1/3/5

Ph.: +39 055 670971/2/3

Fax: + 39 055 678244

e-mail: info@hotelvillesullarno.com

web site: www.hotelvillesullarno.com