Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare - Sezione di Firenze

Logistics for JRA5 and EMC2 Meetings

Venue

The meetings will be hosted by the INFN, Polo Scientifico di Sesto Fiorentino (Firenze), located in Building “Fisica A”, Via G. Sansone 1, Aula Magna (ground floor).
The arrow in the picture points, more or less, to the 57 bus stop and the building is the square one near it.

How to get there

By train
Santa Maria Novella railway station and bus 57.
The bus stop is down the stairs outside the ticket hall, straight on from the rails.
By bus
57 from Piazza San Marco and Santa Maria Novella railway station about every 20'.
The first stop inside the campus is just in front of the venue. The time is from 30' to 40' minutes.
Tickets are sold in bars, newstands, tobacconists, etc. and on board with an extra charge ( fares).
By plane
- From Florence (Amerigo Vespucci) Airport there is a bus service to the Railway Station — no intermediate stops — every 30'-60' (Volainbus: 4.5€). Taxis are around 30€ to the center of town.
  The airport is very near to the venue (about 3 km), but without direct public transportation. The cost of a taxy is high — it should be around 25&euro — because it has to cross an administrative boundary.
- From Pisa Airport there are trains ("Pisa Aeroporto" -> "Firenze" in the form, cheaper) and a bus service to the Santa Maria Novella railway station or to Amerigo Vespucci airport.
- From Bologna (Marconi) Airport you can get a bus shuttle to the Bologna Centrale Railway Station and from there to Firenze S. Maria Novella in about one hour.

Wireless access

The current Italian law requires that we obtain a copy of an ID document of the applicant: this means no EduRoam (apologies for this), but plain username/password.
To speed things up, we suggest that the people attending the meeting arrive with a copy of their ID documents.

Hotels

We weren't able to reserve a reasonable number of rooms in the same hotel in downtown Florence, so we decided to leave to you the choice.

The following are two of the many available lists of hotels in Florence.

Three stars: Hotel Calzaiuoli, Hotel Gioia, Hotel Bonifacio, Hotel Centrale, Hotel Alba, Hotel Delle Tele, Hotel California are reasonably near to a 57 bus stop;
Two stars: Hotel Costantini, Hotel Desiree, Hotel Chiazza, Hotel Genesio, Hotel Romagna are reasonably near to a 57 bus stop.

If you prefer, you can try a reservation office:

DISCLAIMER: please note that we have no idea on the quality of the hotels.

If you have a car and you prefer an hotel near the venue, you can try Novotel Firenze Nord. Once upon a time, they made special prices to the guests of the Department of Physics: if you are interested, let us know.

Social Event

Florence is a very expensive city (for Florentines too!), so we weren't able to find a cheap solution for a typical and sufficiently large restaurant in town.

Our suggestion is a dinner at Il Latini, very central, which, even if very frequented by tourist, is still reasonably typical. They offer a "degustation menu" for 45 €.

The restaurant is always crowded, so they ask a reservation at least 10 days before. So, please, let us know as soon as possible if you are interested or not.

Enquires to Elisabetta Greco or Roberto Cecchini.

Last update 23/1/07