CCI Italy Congress Como October 2015 - Program
COMO, 8-11 October 2015
Thursday, October 8, 2015 :
Arrival of participants.
6 PM Check-in at the Hotel "LE DUE CORTI", 4 stars (the old staging post: see picture at the bottom of the program), Piazza Vittoria 12, 22100 Como (Porta Torre area); email [email protected], tel. +39 031 328 111, Fax +39 031 32 88 00.
8 PM Welcome dinner in the “Sala Carbonari” of the hotel. Stay.
Friday, October 9 :
8.30 AM Breakfast at the hotel.
10 AM Private bus, reserved just for us, to the Milan EXPO 2015.
11 AM Arrival, EXPO visit and lunch on your own.
5 PM Return by bus to the hotel. Dinner (in the walled city of Como there are numerous little restaurants). Stay.
Saturday, October 10
8.30 AM Breakfast at the hotel.
9.30 AM Lectures in the Conference Room of the hotel (coffee break at 11 AM).
12 NOON For Italian members:Assembly of CCI Italy, with election of the Executive Committee.
Lunch, on your own.
2 PM Simultaneous.
4,30 PM Opening of the Exhibition of chess sets, chess boards and prints of contemporary art, curated by the art critic Roberto Borghi, at the Pinacoteca Civica of Como, Via Diaz 84 (tel. +39 031 26 98 69), 5 minutes walk from the hotel.
8 PM Closing dinner in the “Sala Radetzky” of the hotel. Stay.
Sunday, October 11
8.30 AM Breakfast at the hotel and walk to Piazza Cavour (10 minutes). 9.30 AM Private boat trip on Lake Como to Bellaggio (see, to get an idea, YouTube - Lake Como seen by Yann Arthus-Bertrand). Walk around Bellaggio, the "pearl of Lake Como," shopping paradise (there are even chess sets).
1 PM Lunch at a restaurant in Bellaggio, then free time.
5 PM Return by hydrofoil. End of the program.
Congress registration fee € 250 (two hundred and fifty euros) to be paid by September 12, 2015 by bank transfer to CCI Italy behalf n. 10777, made out to Gianfelice Ferlito and Rodolfo Pozzi, UBI Banca Popolare di Bergamo, Varese 3.
IBAN: IT46H0542810801000000010777.
The price includes: Gadgets: two chess theme prints (size 30 cm x 40) by the artists Valdi Spagnulo and Paola Fonticoli, specially created for our congress. Value 400 €. Road and lake transport, tips, entrance fee to the EXPO and to the Art Gallery. Closing dinner at the hotel restaurant: 6-courses tasting menu, white and red wine, and liquor. Lunch in Bellaggio.
Not included: The welcome dinner at the Hotel "Le Due Corti" (agreed price for three courses and drinks, 35€). Lunches on your own. The overnight stays at the Hotel "Le Due Corti", for which it was agreed a special price for our congress): Single room: 110 € plus 2.50 € for city tax per night. Double or Twin: € 148 plus € 5 city tax per night.