Venue

Conference Venue

This conference will take place at the Congress Center at San Servolo Island, Venice, Italy. San Servolo Island is located 10 minute away from central Venice (San Marco), via boat taxis. Map Map (Google Earth)

How To Get There

From the historic center

Once you are in the historic center of Venice, the island of San Servolo can be reached either by public transportation or by private taxi. Taxis can cost from €40 to €80 one way. The public boats no. 20 (there are hourly boats running to and from the island) to San Servolo leave from San Marco in front of the Londra Palace Hotel, Riva degli Schiavoni. Tickets from San Zaccaria to San Servolo cost € 2.00 one way. The most economic option is to buy a daily, 2 days, 3 days or a monthly pass.

Prices

• Daily - €15.00
• 2-day - €25.00
• 3-day - €30.00
• Monthly - €18.00 for students or €26.00 for adults (photo required).

Recommended public boars to get to the conference

Recommended public boars to get back to central Venice

For timetables and further information visit ACTV

From Marco Polo International Airport

There are several services that run from the airport to Venice:

• Alilaguna waterbus service. This company offers a service that goes from the airport to Murano, the Lido, the Arsenale with a final stop at San Marco. Tickets cost €12.00 and can be purchased in the arrival hall of the airport or directly on board. Boats leave hourly. For timetables and further information visit Alilaguna
  From San Marco to San Servolo
• ATVO buses. These blue buses run from the airport to Piazzale Roma and they leave from in front of the entrance of the departure hall. Tickets cost €3.00 and can be purchased at the ATVO stand in the arrival hall or directly on board. The service runs from 9.00 to 24.00 and takes about 20 minutes to reach Venice.
  For timetables and further information visit ATVO
  From Piazzale Roma to San Servolo
• ACTV Public bus no. 5. These orange buses run every half hour. The last stop is "Piazzale Roma". Tickets cost €2.00 and can be purchased at the ACTV stand in the arrival hall. The service takes about 25 minutes to reach "Piazzale Roma".
  For timetables and further information visit ACTV
  From Piazzale Roma to San Servolo
• Water and land Taxis. You can take a private water taxi directly to your final destination (which is an expensive choice, from the airport to San Servolo it costs about €80.00). Alternatively you can take a land taxi to Piazzale Roma, and from there catch a public boat, called a "vaporetto", to the stop closest to your final destination.
  From Piazzale Roma to San Servolo

By car

If you bring a car to Venice, you will have to pay for a garage or parking space during your stay. The last stops in Venice where you can leave your car are called "Piazzale Roma" and "Tronchetto". Parking at "Piazzale Roma" in the Municipal Garage costs €20.00, and at the private Garage San Marco (next door) it costs €26.00 for 24 hours.

To reach the privately run Tronchetto parking area, as you come into Venice, follow the signs and turn right before "Piazzale Roma". Warning: Do not be waylaid by illegal touts - often wearing fake uniforms - who may try to flag you down and offer to arrange parking and hotels. Instead, continue on until you reach the automatic ticket machines. Parking here costs around €20.00 for 24 hours.
(Do not leave valuables in the car. There is a luggage deposit office, open daily 8 a.m. - 8 p.m., next to the Pullman Bar on the ground floor of the Municipal Garage at "Piazzale Roma")

Another solution is to park your car in front of the train station in Mestre. Parking here costs much less (around €5.00 - 8.00 per day), and there are frequent trains and buses (see ACTV web site for Bus no. 2) between Mestre and Venice Piazzale Roma.
From Piazzale Roma to San Servolo

By train

Venice has rail connections with every major city in Italy and the rest of Europe. The main train station, Stazione F.S. Venezia S. Lucia, is on the Grand Canal in the northwest corner of the city. Some through trains do not terminate at Santa Lucia, stopping only at the Venezia-Mestre Station on the mainland. All trains traveling to and from Santa Lucia stop at Mestre, so to get from Venezia-Mestre to Santa Lucia, or vice versa (a 10-minute trip), take the first available train, remembering there is a supplemento (extra charge) for traveling on Intercity and Eurocity trains, and that if you do not pay it before boarding, you are liable for a fine. You can also check the European train schedule in case you are arriving by train from Europe or the Italian train schedule if you are getting to Venice from another Italian city.
From Train Station to San Servolo

• From San Marco to San Servolo The public boat to San Servolo leaves from the Riva degli Schiavoni at San Marco. The stop is in front of the Londra Palace Hotel and you can take boats no. 20.
• From Piazzale Roma to San Servolo There are several choices from Piazzale Roma to San Servolo. You must take either the no. 1, no. 51, no. 41, no. 61 or no. 82 boat (not bus!), direction "Lido", and get off at the San Zaccaria boat stop. At San Zaccaria you must change to line no. 20. Both lines leave from in front of the Londra Palace Hotel.
• From the train station to San Servolo There are several choices from the train station to San Servolo. You must take either the no. 1, no. 51 or no. 82 boat, direction "Lido", and get off at the San Zaccaria boat stop. At San Zaccaria you must change to line no. 20. Both lines leave from in front of the Londra Palace Hotel.
• From the Lido to San Servolo From the Lido you must take boat no. 52, no. 82, no. 61 or no. 1 to the San Zaccaria boat stop and change to boat no. 20 for San Servolo. The boat no. 20 to San Servolo leaves from the Riva degli Schiavoni, in front of the Londra Palace Hotel.

Surroundings

Venice is among the most beautiful and enchanting places on earth, and any verbal description of it will probably not do any justice. If you wish to get a virtual taste of Venice before your visit, you should explore one of the numerous Web sites on Venice:

• Venice
• Venice Wikitravel
• VeNETia, where you can find some curiosities and historical notions, and some information about: how to reach Venice, how to move in Venice, useful telephone numbers, and high tides in Venice.
• The official website of the Tourist Board of Venice.
• Venice World.