VENUE AND ACCOMMODATION
Conference Venue
The conference will be hosted at the ETSIE Escuela Técnica Superior de Ingeniería de Edificación, University of Granada, located in the Campus of Fuentenueva (Campus Fuentenueva, c/Severo Ochoa s/n, 18071 Granada), accessible from the ring road of Granada, by the departure of Méndez Núñez and at a walking distance from the city center.
Accommodation
Hotel Granada Center is close to the ETSIE Escuela Técnica Superior de Ingeneiría de Edfificación and offers special rates for the conference if you make the reservation before 21 April 2019. In order to confirm your reservation under the conference rates, please enter
and fill the reservation form, introducing the promo code “MINEQUMAX” within the 4th box.
Other hotels close to the conference venue are:
Sercotel Gran Hotel Luna de Granada
Granada
Granada has been the crucible of cultures and civilizations, where, during the centuries, christians, muslims and jews lived altogether. Nowadays, Granada is a modern city that has an uncommon scientific and cultural background, along with the University and the institutes of CSIC (High Council of Scientific Investigations) and an architectural, natural and historic patrimony like no other. Likewise, it owns a grown and active corporte environment made up of companies based on knowledge, standing out those related to the health campus and new technologies. To all these values, we should add an extensive cultural activity and the well-known hospitality of the people from Andalucia which brings a warm welcome to their guests.
Granada welcomes every year more than 2,5 millions of tourists both nationally and internationally driven here for the excellent turistic offers, the location and the weather, with the Alhambra as the most emblematic monument, being the most visited monument in all Spain.
How to Reach Granada by Flight
The F.G.L. Granada-Jaén Airport is located 15-20 minutes by car or taxi away from the city centre. It has direct connections with London, Paris, Berlin, Milan, Naple, Manchester, Madrid, Barcelona, Mallorca, Tenerife, Las Palmas and Bilbao.
The Granada Airport bus line connects with the city centre, located at 17 kilometers, with stops in strategic places like Avenida de Andalucía, the bus station, Gran Vía de Colón and Paseo del Violón, next to the Palacio de Congresos. The full journey lasts approximately 45 minutes. Standard fare irrespective of length of journey: 2.90 euros.
Málaga-Costa del Sol Airport is another option, with more flight connections than Granada airport. The bus connections from Malaga Airport to Granada take approximately 2:30 hours.
Tourism Info
Granada is famous because of its large amount of tourist possibilities, amongst you can find such magical places such as: La Alhambra (an ancient andalusian city-castle, which was built on the XI century), the cathedral (catholic temple, great work of the Spanish Renaissance), the city’s old historic center and the borough of Albayzín.
