Eseb 2009

Excursions

Excursions, 27th August

Excursions can be booked on the registration form.
Reservations must be received by July 15, 2009.
All tours will depart from the Politecnico di Torino, the site of ESEB 2009. Participants are kindly invited to be there at least 10 minutes before departure time.
All tours are accompanied by an English-speaking guide. All tours have to be organized. They require a minimum of 25 participants. Should the minimum number of 25 participants not be reached, the tour will be cancelled and your fee refunded. The maximum number of participants for each tour is 50.
If you want to cancel your participation in a tour, you must send your cancellation in writing to the congress secretariat by July 15, 2009. After July 15 no refund can be made.
A voucher should be presented upon arrival at the beginning of each tour. Tour vouchers must be collected from the Tour Desk on the first day of the conference.

Option 1: Turin orientation tour and the Cinema Museum, 14.30 - 18,30 ca.
A tour especially designed for the first time Turin visitor to discover the history, the best known sites and the baroque masterpieces of the city that was the first capital of Italy in 1861.
From the Roman sites to the Olympic Venues, a tour to experience the past and the future of a city always on the move.
Stop at the National Cinema Museum, located inside the Mole Antonelliana, the symbol of Turin for an interactive journey into the wonders of cinema.
Guided tour of the exhibition of 3.200 squared meters, 5 floors and a spectacular elevator offering a view of the Temple Hall and a breathtaking city panorama.
(€ 40,84 + VAT) = € 49,00 p.p. min 25 pax
Rate includes: Coach, tour guide, admission fees.

Option 2: Turin orientation tour and the Egyptian Museum, 14.30 - 18.30 ca.
The tour will give you a general impression of the city of Turin, its historical and modern quarters, and its cultural and social aspects. You will discover the history of the first Italian capital city, a noble and elegant city.
Stop at the best leading attraction of Turin, the Egyptian Museum, the most important in the world after the one in Cairo, for a guided tour of the spectacular collection: more than 30,000 items narrating 5000 years of history through art, religion and daily life in the time of the great pharaohs. Furthermore, thanks to an interior design project by the art-director Dante Ferretti (winner of the 2005 Oscar prize for his work on "The Aviator”), the statues are now displaced in a new light after 150 years of exhibition. The museum is located inside the Accademia delle Scienze, one of Italy's most elegant baroque buildings.
(€ 40,84 + VAT) = € 49,00 p.p. min 25 pax
Rate includes: Coach, tour guide, admission fees.

Option 3: Turin orientation tour and the historical cafés, 14.30 - 18.30 ca.
This itinerary goes along the most fascinating squares in Turin, reaching the city's historical cafés. Since the eighteenth century, cafés were the ideal place where the Turin upper class used to meet to discuss politics and business, and to decide about the future of their country. Caffè Platti, Caffé San Carlo, Caffé Baratti & Milano, Caffé Mulassano: these are some of the names that immediately remin stories about ladies and knights, about the flavour of premium chocolate and the delicacy called bicerin. Stop to experience the magic atmosphere of the Italian tradition, while tasting a coffee, a chocolate, a zabajone or a vermouth.
(€ 40,84 + VAT) = € 49,00 p.p. min 25 pax
Rate includes: Coach, tour guide, drink.

Option 4: The Royal Palace of Venaria Reale, 14.30 - 18.30 ca.
TOUR CANCELLED!
Guided tour to the imposing Baroque Royal Palace, one of the most important residences of the Savoy family in the countryside declared a “World Heritage” site by Unesco. Experience one of the most significant examples of the magnificence of architecture and art in the 17th and 18th centuries built by famous architects such as Castellamonte, Garove, Juvarra, and walk into its vast and beautiful gardens.
Stop at Royal Caffetteria for a traditional Aperitivo-Buffet Torinese
(€ 70,84 + VAT) = € 85,00 p.p. min 25 pax
Rate includes: Coach, tour guide, admission fee, buffet-aperitivo.

Option 5: Savour the flavour of Barolo, 14.30 - 00.30 ca.
A tour to Alba, the capital of white truffles, and Langhe, the famous Barolo and Barbaresco wine region, visiting Marchesi di Barolo cellar with wine tasting and dining in a typical “Trattoria” in La Morra (to taste the great Piedmont cuisine like for example raw meat, agnolotti, brasato al barolo, nut-cake) while sipping the greatest Piedmont wines. Alba is about one and a half drive from Turin.
(€ 104,17 + VAT) = € 125,00 p.p. min 25 pax
Rate includes: Coach, tour guide, wine tasting, dinner (wine excluded).

Option 6: Mont-Blanc discovery, 14.30 - 22.30 ca.
FULLY BOOKED!
An unforgettable experience in the Alps, discovering the Mont-Blanc, to admire all the most beautiful summits above 4000 metres. A tour by cable car from Courmayeur takes you to La Palud, to reach Punta Helbronner (3462 m) and its fantastic Terrace on the Glaciers, where the view on Mont Blanc (4807 m) and the Giant’s tooth is breathtaking, having on the horizon the Matterhorn, Monte Rosa and Gran Paradiso.
(For this excursion we suggest to wear an appropriate windcheater, because the summit of Mont-Blanc is at an height of 3462 m).
Dinner in typical Trattoria in Valle d’Aosta on the way back home. The Mont-Blanc chain is about one hour and 45 min. drive from Turin.
€ 129,17 + VAT = 155,00 p.p. min 25 pax
Rate includes: Coach, tour guide, admission fees, dinner (wine excluded).
Important note: for people attending this excursion the bus will leave at 1.00 p.m. from the Politecnico. Pocket lunch will be ready on the bus.