Santiago de Compostela

ILP 2006 will be held in Santiago de Compostela.

The venue is
Facultad de Medicina (College of Medicine)
Rúa de San Francisco, s/n
15782 Santiago de Compostela
(See Map)

Yellow arrow points to the College of Medicine, it is close to Hotel Reyes Catolicos which is in the Cathedral main square (Obradoiro square) as you see in the picture

Santiago de Compostela is one of the most splendid and harmonic architectural ensembles in the world, with its Romanesque, Gothic and Baroque Spanish Empire historical buildings. The city was declared World Heritage in 1985.

Santiago is the capital city of Galicia, a state in Northern Spain with Celtic traditions. Santiago has one of the oldest Universities in Spain, about 500 years old. Since the Middle Ages, people from Central and Western Europe come to visit this city. It is, by tradition and by its personality, a youthful and active city with the hospitality as an icon of its identity, ready to show its history and its legends, share the beauty of its streets and plazas to its visitors.

Compostela also has a wide-ranging scope of cultural activities held in museums like the Galician Centre of Contemporary Art, Cathedral Museum, Museum of Galicia and Pilgrimage Museum.
You may stay in small nice hotels in renewed historical buildings, experiencing the Imperial atmosphere and the Spanish way of living in restaurants, wine cellars and coffee bars.

Besides well known Spanish food like paella or tortilla, Galicia is famous for the seafood, including shellfish from the temperate bays nearby Santiago.
Nightlife in Compostela is of great intensity. There are night spots with very different themes. The students of the University provide a lively atmosphere you may enjoy.

For more information: Tourism Information, Santiago Airport, University of Santiago, Tourism Galicia.