Travel
By plane or train
Valerio Catullo
The nearest airport is
Valerio Catullo in Villafranca di Verona (40km).
There is a daily shuttle bus connecting this airport to
Verona Porta Nuova train station.
The first transfers from the station to the airport are at 5:15 and 6:10, and then every 20 minutes until 20:10 and every 40 minutes until 22:50. The first transfers from the airport to the station are at 5:35 and 6:30 and then every 20 minutes until 20:30 and every 40 minutes until 23.10. The bus is equipped for disabled passengers. There are regional trains from Verona Porta Nuova to
Mantua once every hour; the trip takes approximately 46 minutes.
Other airports
The airport
Il Caravaggio
in Orio al Serio (BG) is 100km away. We recommend people to take a bus to
Milan centrale and then a train to Mantua.
The airports Milan Linate, Bologna and Venice are about 150 km away.
By train
Mantua has a railway station which is only a 5 minutes walk away from
the conference venue. The two hotels that have agreed special rates
with the organizers are right in front of the railway station.
There are direct trains to Mantua from Verona (North-East 40min), Milan
(West 2 hours) and Modena (South 70 minutes).
The web site of the national railway company is
trenitalia.com. A useful site for connections in europe
is also that of
DB.
By car
There are two exits of the E45/A22 motorway close to Mantua; we recommend
people to take the exit
Mantova Nord and then follow the indications
for the
Strada provinciale SP10 toward city centre and/or train
station. Please, observe that there are
limits for accessing
the city centre by car (even if these limits do not apply to the area of
the train station). In particular, circulation without a permit is not permitted
in the areas marked as
ZTL (zona traffico limitato) in the map.
In case you decide to come by car, we invite you to check with the
hotels about the availability of parking. There are also some
public parkings available, but they might be expensive.