SYMPOSIUM VENUE

FAENZA FAIR – SALA ZANELLI
Via Risorgimento 3 – 48018 Faenza (Ravenna) – ITALY

IMPORTANT NOTICE:
The opening session of Sunday September 12 will take place at the Comune of Faenza, Salone delle Bandiere (Piazza del Popolo 31).

TRAVEL INFORMATION: HOW TO GET TO FAENZA

By train
Milan – Bologna – Rimini line, stop at Faenza.
Italian railways call center: 892021
website: www.trenitalia.it

By plane
Closer Airports:

Forlì Airport "L. Ridolfi"
Distance from Faenza: about 20 km
Information desk phone number: +39 0543 474990
Ticket desk phone number: +39 0543 474921
web site: www.forliairport.com

Bologna Airport "Marconi"
Distance from Faenza: about 60 km
Information desk phone number: +39 051 6479615
website : www.bologna-airport.it

Rimini Airport “Federico Fellini”
Distance from Faenza: about 70 km
Information desk phone number: +39 0541 715755
website : www.riminiairport.com

By car
From the motorway A14 take the Exit “Faenza”.

Car park
a large car park is available within the fair district.

Faenza bus
Call Center: 199 199 558
web site: www.mete.ra.it

Taxi Faenza
Taxi phone number: + 39 0546 22502

THE VENUE AND CLIMATE

Faenza
Of Roman origins, Faenza is a splendid city of art whose fame already shone in the Renaissance period of the production of exquisitely made pottery that was exported all over Europe.

The city we see today was formed over a long arc of historical evolution and enriched over the years by fine architecture with strong Renaissance and Neoclassical features.
Faenza's outstanding architectural attractions are concetrated in the two contiguous main squares: Piazza del Popolo, lined by two spectacular double order porticoed wings, and Piazza della Libertà.

In Faenza you can visit one of the world's most beautiful and complete art collections: the international Ceramic Museum houses pieces from all over the world and from every epoch, from classical amphoras to the works of Chagall and Picasso, and there is a rich section dedicated to Faenza pottery in the golden age of the Renaissance.

Over the years Faenza craftsmen and artists developed and perfected the decoration of hand made pottery, and the 60 workshop currently active - most of them in the city centre - offer the tourist the chance of unique purchases unavailable elsewhere.

Faenza, at the foot of the first Subapennine hills, enjoys a fine location and evocative agrarian surroundings: vineyards in the hills, cultivated land with traces of the ancient Roman land-division system, and fertile market gardens in the plains.
The weather in Faenza in September is generally warm with occasional showers. 
The average temperature is 20-25 °C during the day and 15-18 °C in the evening.