Conference Venue

The Conference will take place in the heart of La Plata, in the Salons of the 4 stars Hotel Corregidor.  The Hotel is located on Plaza San Martin, at the corner of calle 6 and 54 (see map below).

The registration desk and ProZ.com stand will be in the room Jardin, at the opposite side of the hotel lobby - right in front of the hotel entrance.

The actual sessions will take place in the first floor in the room San Martin and the room Dardo Rocha. All rooms are equipped with air-conditioning and free wireless Internet.

For more information and pictures, visit their website at  http://www.hotelcorregidor.com.ar/ and http://www.familiabares.com.ar

Prepare your weekend in La Plata!

La Plata is the capital city of the province of Buenos Aires, Argentina. The city layout was designed based on a rationalist conception of urban centers. The city has the shape of a square with a central park and two main diagonal avenues, north-south and east-west.This design is copied in a self-similar manner in small blocks of six by six blocks in length. Every six blocks, one finds a small park or square. Other than the diagonals, all streets are on a rectangular grid, and are numbered consecutively. Thus, La Plata is nicknamed "la ciudad de las diagonales" ("city of diagonals"). It is also called "la ciudad de los tilos" ("city of tilia (linden tree)") because of the large number of linden trees lining many streets and squares.

There is plenty of sightseeing to do in La Plata - the city is also a cultural and historical center.

For example, the cathedral of La Plata is the largest church in Argentina. The Curutchet House is one of the two buildings by Le Corbusier in the Americas while the Teatro Argentino de La Plata is the second most-important opera house in Argentina after the Teatro Colón in Buenos Aires (source: Wikipedia).

Useful links:

Municipalidad de La Plata: http://www.laplata.gov.ar
Ciudad de La Plata: http://www.laplata-argentina.com.ar/
Historia de la fundación de La Plata: http://ar.geocities.com/paginajosemariarosa/tema09.htm
Teatro Argentino: http://www.teatroargentino.ic.gba.gov.ar/
Wikipedia (English): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Plata

Wikipedia (Spanish): http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Plata

Click here to visit La Plata on Google Maps!