The 11CHLIE will be held at the Paraninfo of the University of Zaragoza, Renascent Palace Style placed at the centre of Zaragoza, designed by the Architect R. Magdalena and built from 1886 to 1893, Former Faculty of Medicine & Sciences where studied Nobel Price Ramón y Cajal
Address: Plaza Basilio Paraíso 4, 50005 Zaragoza
- Submissions due: March 16, 2009 (New)
- Notification of acceptance: March 30, 2009
- Registration, full payment and final paper due: May 15, 2009 (New)
Situated in the centre of the geo-economic quadrilateral made up of Madrid, Barcelona, Valencia and the Basque Country, Zaragoza occupies a privileged position -the gateway between Europe and the Iberian Peninsula- which has played an important part in communications and trading ever since the Romans, two thousand years ago. Some 300 km separate Zaragoza from Madrid, Barcelona, Valencia and Bilbao.
The city privileged position makes for easy communication with Spain and the rest of the world, with a convenient airport. The airport is situated 9 km from the city. The address is: Crta. del Aeropuerto, s/n, phone: 34 976 229 343. At present there are regular flights to Frankfurt and internal flight to Madrid, Barcelona, Santa Cruz de Tenerife and Palma de Mallorca. The connections from the airport to the city are by bus or taxi.
Zaragoza is one of the rail network's principal links with a High Speed Train (AVE) with Madrid and this will be enhanced in the near future with Barcelona and with a modern Multi-Transport Station.
There are bus connections and taxi.
Zaragoza has an excellent communications infrastructure, with the northern Spanish motorway network linking it to Bilbao (A-2) and Barcelona (A-68), the Aragón Highway linking it to Madrid and the future Sagunto-Somport Highway, which will link it to Valencia and the French motorway network via the Aragonese Pyrenees.
Zaragoza has a pleasant climate, with average temperatures in July around 25ºC. In winter, the temperatures rarely falls below 0ºC. It is a fairly dry climate, with an average rainfall of 38 mm in May. This low rainfall is due to a continental climate and to the wind that blows along the Ebro Valley, known as the 'Cierzo'.
