We are
pleased to invite you to attend to the Fourth International Trilobite
Conference, to be held from Monday, June 16th to Tuesday, June 24th,
2008, in Toledo (Spain). Toledo is a monumental city, located 70 km south of
Madrid, with good connection by highways as well as by frequent high speed
train from the capital. Although founded around 540 BC, and being an
important Roman, Visigoth and Moor city,
Toledo is best known as the “City
of the Three Cultures” because Christians, Jews and Muslims lived here
peacefully together for centuries. Behind its walls, Toledo preserves a
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unique array of artistic and cultural legacy in the form of churches,
palaces, fortresses, mosques and synagogues from the 10th to the 16th
centuries within an intricate, windy conglomeration of narrow streets. This
great diversity of artistic styles makes the Historic Quarter of this past
capital of the Spanish Empire a real open-air museum, which has led to it
being declared a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Besides the great historical
value of the city, one of its advantages is that the congress and
accommodation facilities will be considerably close together.
The selected
dates in late spring will be ideal for Toledo when fair weather and day
temperatures ranging from 20 to 30°C (lows between 10-15°C) are typical.
Such conditions will likely pertain for the field trip destinations, as
well.
Those
participants needing an official invitation letter for visa purposes must
write to the organizers indicating name, passport number, title, sex, the
length of stay in Spain, nationality, affiliation and current mailing
address. |