EVENTS
WELCOME COCKTAIL RECEPTION
The Welcome Cocktail Reception will be held
on Monday - October 17, 19:30pm at the Ayre Astoria Hotel
(suggested hotel for the attendees). This will be an excellent
opportunity to meet and network with the attendees of the
Symposium along with savouring typical Spanish and Valencian
cookery.
The Welcome Cocktail Reception is free to registered
attendees. Guest Tickets will be available for an additional
cost of 23 Euros. Guests must be pre-registered to attend.
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EXHIBITOR'S RECEPTION
The Exhibitors Reception will be held during
the Symposium on Tuesday - October 18th at 11:00 am at the
facilities of ITENE. Attendees may visit the exhibitors
while enjoying coffee, refreshments and a sweet and savory
bakery. This reception is free to registered attendees.
In addition, there will be an Exhibitors Lunch
at 13:30 pm on the same day. While enjoying coffee and Valencian
cookery, attendees will have another opportunity to meet
with the exhibitors and other attendees.
CONFERENCE DINNER AND GUIDED TOUR OF
THE CITY CENTRE
The Conference Dinner will be held after the
Guided Tour of the City Centre on Tuesday - October 18th.
Attendees will be transported from ITENE’s facilities
(conference room) to the hotel at 17:00 p.m.
Conference Dinner GUEST Ticket - Free for registered
attendees, 65 € per guest (VAT included)
TRANSPORTATION SERVICE - Tuesday 18
October
The attendees will be transported from the
Conference to Hotel Ayre Astoria Palace at 17:00 p.m.
At 18:45 p.m. the attendees will depart from
Hotel Astoria Palace to visit the City Centre, where they
will enjoy a guided tour and have the opportunity to discover
two of Valencia´s most emblematic places: La Lonja
and The Cathedral.
At 20:30 p.m. the attendees will go to the
Conference Dinner, which will take place also in the City
Centre.
GUIDED TOUR OF THE CITY CENTRE
Before
the Conference Dinner, attendees will have the opportunity
to discover one of Valencia’s most emblematic places:
La Lonja and The Cathedral.
The Llotja de la Seda (Spanish: Lonja de la
Seda, English "Silk Exchange") is a late Valencian
Gothic style civil building in Valencia, Spain, built between
1482 and 1548, and one of the principal tourist attractions
in the city.
The UNESCO considered it as a World Heritage
Site in 1996 since "the site is of outstanding universal
value as it is a wholly exceptional example of a secular
building in late Gothic style, which dramatically illustrates
the power and wealth of one of the great Mediterranean mercantile
cities."[1] ( "La Lonja de la Seda de Valencia
- UNESCO World Heritage Centre". Whc.unesco.org.
http://whc.unesco.org/en/list/782)
Behind the current building, there was an earlier
one from the 14th century, which was called the Oil Exchange
(Llotja de l’Oli, in Valencian, or Lonja del Aceite,
in Spanish). It was used not only for trading with oil,
but for all kind of business.
Valencia's commercial prosperity reached its
peak during the 15th century, and led to the construction
of a new building.
The design of the new Lonja of Valencia was
derived from a similar structure in the Lonja of Palma de
Majorca, built by the architect Guillem Sagrera in 1448.
The architect in charge of the new Lonja was Pere Compte
(1447–1506), who built the main body of the building
- the Trading Hall or Sala de Contractació (in Valencian)
- in only fifteen years (1483–1498). So is written
in a blue band that runs along all four walls of the Trading
Hall, also called Hall of Columns. It proclaims in golden
letters the following inscription:
According to the local Valencian scholar Joan
Francesc Mira, this inscription showed that it was not a
necessary to be a Protestant or a foreigner to establish
the basis of a good trade; it also showed the union of ethics
and economy. Other construction and decoration works lumbered
on until 1548, such as the Consolat del Mar (Consulate of
the Sea), a Renaissance building adjoined to La Lonja.
During subsequent centuries, La Lonja functioned
as a silk exchange. The honesty of its traders is honored
by the inscription that runs around the main contract hall.
Source: Wikipedia
