European-US Summer School on

HPC Challenges in Computational Sciences

organized by

DEISA and TeraGrid sites

• Airport -> Santa Tecla by taxi
  
  • Taxi fare: ~ 60 EUR
    
  • Time for transport: ~ 40 min
    
  • Contactinformation for booking in advance:
    Sebastiano Scalia: mob. +39 347 3750962
    email: seby75@hotmail.it (fixed price 60 EUR)

• Arrivaltimes of all students (accessible with userid/password used for student registration, to allow formation of shared taxi rides in advance), Map of the Airport (pdf)

• Airport -> Santa Tecla by bus (local transport)
  
  • Time for transport: up to 2 hours
  • Airport -> Catania City Center by bus (local transport)
    City bus #457, also labelled Alibus, connects the Airport to the city centre, every 20 min 05:00 - 00:00 and stops at the Catania Central Railway Station. Bus tickets must be bought at a booth just outside the terminal building. Fares are €0.80 for a 60-min valid ticket or €2 for a ticket valid until Midnight. Tickets must be validated in machines inside the bus, which put a time-and-date stamp on the ticket.
  • Catania City Center -> Acireale by bus (local transport)
    From Central Railway Station take extra-urban bus AST line Catania-Acireale through Acicastello. Tickets to be purchased at the newspapers shop nearby. Find a timetable here:
    http://ww.aziendasicilianatrasporti.it/opencms/opencms/ASTHtml/Orari/ORARIOinvCT07.htm
    Under the first section "linee: bosco etneo" select "CATANIA - ACICASTELLO - ACIREALE" 
    This bus stops at Acireale, Indirizzo Square.
  • Acireale -> Santa Tecla by bus (local transport)
    From Acireale Piazza Indirizzo take extra-urban bus  Zappalà & Torrisi direction Santa Tecla. The stop Santa Tecla is at the hotel. The Acireale city center is 3 Km away from the hotel. Timetable for the bus:
    

    from Acireale to S. Tecla

    5.55 - 6.15* - 6.55 - 7.00* - 7.55 - 8.30* - 8.55 - 9.55 - 10.30* - 10.55 - 12.10 - 12.45* - 13.30* - 13.55 - 14.55 - 15.30* - 15.55 - 16.55 - 17.30* - 19.45

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• Emergeny phone numbers (in case you get stuck, e.g. on the bustrip from airport to hotel):
  • Contact at the hotel: + 39 095 7634015
  • Giovanni Erbacci (from  DEISA organisational team)
    mob. +39 334 6033876

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