The 33rd Finance Forum will be held at University of Alicante (UA). UA is located in the village of San Vicente del Raspeig, which is just about 15 min by car to Alicante downtown.
Map of the campus
The main venue for the conference is the German Bernacer Building (number 36 on the map of UA’s facilities ).
All conference sessions will take place on the first floor of the German Bernacer Building. The map below shows the layout of this floor.
Plenary sessions will be held on the basement floor of the German Bernacer Building, as shown in the following map.
Next to the German Bernacer Building is the Club Social 2 (number 32 on the map of UA’s facilities), where coffee breaks and lunch will be served.
How to get to the campus
You can reach the University of Alicante by both bus (Line 24) and tram (Line 2).
Information about the schedules and stops for bus Line 24 can be found at this link The ticket fare can be paid directly to the driver, who can give change.
Regarding the tram, information about schedules and stops is available at this link . Tickets can be purchased from vending machines either at the tram station or inside the tram itself.
A single ticket for both the bus and the tram costs around €1.5, but you can also buy a rechargeable travel card with a minimum of 10 trips, which costs around €5.5. These cards can be purchased at the university bookstore.
In the following map, the bus and tram stops and the University of Alicante bookstore are marked.
In the map below, you can see the walking distances and times across the campus
CURIOSITIES ABOUT THE UNIVERSITY OF ALICANTE
1. Use as an airfield. The land where the Control Tower stands (building 27 on the University of Alicante campus map) was used as an airfield from 1911 to 1978. The Control Tower itself was built in 1940.
In 1927, Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, aviator and renowned author of The Little Prince, made a stopover at this airfield and wrote this opinion about Alicante: “I walk around without a coat, amazed by this ‘Arabian Nights’ evening, by the palm trees, the mild stars, and a sea so discreet that it can neither be heard nor seen, barely even breathing”.
2. Transhumance. A section of the Cañada Real Conquense, one of the ten major drove roads of the Iberian Peninsula, runs through the University of Alicante. In remembrance of this, since 2017, a flock of sheep walks along the university’s drove road every October. In this way, transhumance—declared Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity by UNESCO—is highlighted and celebrated. Transhumance is defined as a type of pastoralism in continuous movement, involving the relocation of livestock guided by humans from winter grazing lands to summer pastures and vice versa.
