Social Events

These will include a Welcome Reception on Thursday, September 13th, and the Conference Dinner, on Friday, September 14th. A tour around Sintra area is also planned on Saturday, September 15th in the afternoon. The conference fee already includes the payment for the Welcome Reception for all fees and the Conference Dinner for regular conference fees. The other events are charged separately.

Registration to the Conference Dinner (only for accompanying persons or student fees) should be done by filling in the Registration form (RTF or PDF format).

Registration to the other social events should be done by filling in the Accommodation Form (RTF- or PDF format) and sending it to Abreu Travel Agency (see details in the form).

This city map (RTF- or PDF format) gives you some information about the conference location (Cultural Centre of Cascais), hotels, railway station and marine in Cascais.

 Sintra-Tour

Departure from the Hotel towards the small town of Sintra, visit to the Gothic Palace with wings dating from the 14th century, with rooms and halls of Mudejar and Gothic-Naturalistic architecture and beautiful ceramic tiles “azulejos” from those periods. The two huge conical kitchen chimneys are the Medieval “ex-libris” of the town of Sintra. Visit to the Moorish Castle.Continuation of the tour driving along the Mountain of Sintra, whose luxuriant vegetation deserved the name of “Glorious Eden” by the poet Lord Byron. Stop by the cliffs of Cape-Roca the Western-most point of Continental Europe. Return to Cascais driving through Guincho beach and Boca do Inferno.

Hotel Reservation

Three Hotels offer special prices for participants in the IDA01 conference, through Abreu Travel Agency. All hotels are nearby the conference location in Cascais.

Please note that after July 31st, no reservations can be guaranteed. To make your reservation, please fill in the Accommodation Form and send it to Abreu Travel (see details in the form).

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