Castelldefels

STRONG POINTS • Mediterranean town located on the Barcelona Coast with excellent communications. AVERAGE annual • Located 20 minutes from the centre of Barcelona and 10 minutes from Barcelona airport. temperature: • Top quality Mediterranean cuisine. 17.22ºC • Certified as a Sports Tourism Destination by the Catalan Tourism Office. • More than 1500 places in 3* and 4* hotels. • Wide variety of unusual venues: 20th C castle, Olympic Canal, Conference Centre and Meetings Rooms by the sea. Major congresses • 4.8 km beach with a total expanse of more than 500,000 m². Olympic port. 2011 • Natural backdrop, at the foot of the Natural Park XIII National Aquaculture Congress and 30 km from the wine-producing region of Penedés. VIII FEDALMA Congress for Pro-Breastfeeding Associations and Groups 2012 XXIV National Conference on Vascular Nursing MAIN FINANCIAL SECTORS, UNIVERSITIES 4th Eurocow Congress AND RESEARCH CENTRES Acció Europea COST IC 1004 (European Cooperation • School of Telecommunication and in Science and Technology) Aerospatial Engineering (EETAC). XXIV National Congress on Vascular Nursing • Higher Agricultural School of Barcelona. • Mediterranean Technology Park (PMT) Research centres and technological centres located in the Park include: Photonic Science Institute, Geomatics Institute, Telecommunications Technological Centre of . i2CAT Technical Centre. International Centre for Numerical Methods in Engineering. Centre for Research into Agroalimentary Economy and Development (CREDA). Internet Interdisciplinary Institute. Thrombotargets.

The beach. Castelldefels castle.

CONNECTIONS AND TRANSPORT By train Transport by air Connections with Barcelona on Renfe suburban. Trains run every 15 Distances to the nearest airports minutes. Journey time: 20 minutes Barcelona airport 11.1 km 10 mn Trains depart from Barcelona Sants daily to the rest of and Reus airport 86.9 km 1 h i 4 mn Europe, including the AVE (high speed train). Connections with Barcelona airport: L99 from Castelldefels to Terminal 1, Castelldefels has two train stations, Castelldefels (town) and Castell- departures every 30 mins from 5am to 9.30pm (calle Santiago Rusiñol). L99 defels-playa (beach), line C-2 on the Renfe suburban network. from Terminal 1 to Castelldefels, departures every 30 mins from 5.45am to RENFE offers a 30% discount to passengers attending a confer- 10.15pm. ence. Distances by road from Castelldefels Barcelona Tarragona Girona Lleida Madrid Zaragoza Valencia 23.3 km 78.3 km 124 km 159 km 607 km 292 km 329 km 27 mn 56 mn 1 h 25 mn 1 h 42 mn 6 h 2 h 47 mn 3 h 5 mn FACILITIES Grand Hotel Rey Don Jaime Convention Centre

Area (m²) Capacity Height (m) Auditorium 1 500 350 5 Garraf 1 61.8 50 2.70 Garraf 2 27.49 15 2.70 Garraf 1+2 89.37 60 2.70 Garraf 3 62.09 50 2.70 Garraf 1+2+3 151.46 100 2.70 Garraf 4 63.84 50 2.70 Garraf 5 27.49 15 2.70 Garraf 4+5 91.33 60 2.70 Garraf 6 63.75 50 2.70 Grand Hotel Don Jaime Conference Centre. Garraf 4+5+6 155.08 110 2.70 Garraf A 15 - 2.50 Garraf B 15 - 2.50

Other venues for meetings Venues 20-60 61-199 + de 200 La Terraza Centro de Convenciones - 2 2 La Guaita 4 - - Photonic Science Institute - 1 - Plaza theatre - - 1 Espacio del mar 1 - -

Grand Hotel Don Jaime Conference Centre. Barona tower.

HOTELES Category Hotels Bedrooms Meeting rooms -100 pax 101-200 pax + 200 pax 4 * 5 555 31 7 8 3 * 4 250 8 4 2 Total 3* and 4* hotel capacity: 805 rooms. Largest hotel capacity: 220 rooms.

UNUSUAL VENUES Venues m² Castelldefels Castle (terrace) 5,000 - 400 - Olympic Canal Venues 50 40 - - Olympic Canal Venues terrace 360 - 300 - Espacio del mar 105 40 - -

Tel. 93 484 99 00 [email protected] http://ccb.catalunya.com Castelldefels beach.