Travel Information
Travel information
How to reach Catania airport and the historic downtown area
Catania can be reached by air or train transportation. We recommend air transportation to the Catania International Airport (airport code CTA), served by several major and low cost companies.
Once at the airport, you can reach the historic downtown by means of the Bus service called ALIBUS, run by the AMT company. You can find a picture of an ALIBUS at this link. The route ("percorso") and timetable ("orario") of the ALIBUS is displayed at this link ("Feriale" stands for Monday-Saturday, while "Festivo" stands for Sunday).
The price of the ALIBUS ticket is 4 Euro and it can be purchased directly at the bus driver.
You can take also a TAXI from the airport to the downtown. Price can vary according to company; best fee (from 20€) is provided by RadioTaxi (+39 095330966).
How to reach the venue of the meeting
The Conference will be held at the “Conference Room” of the Physics and Astronomy Department "Ettore Majorana", of Catania University, at the University Campus Cittadella Universitaria (address: Via Santa Sofia 64).
The campus of the Cittadella Universitaria can be easily reached by public transportation from downtown Catania. There are two options:
1) take the BRT1 bus in downtown Catania and get off at the Cittadella Ovest stop. You can find the route ("percorso") and the timetable ("orario") of BRT1 at this link. We recommend this option as the simplest one.
2) take the Metro line in downtown with direction ”NESIMA” and get off at the stop "Milo", where a shuttle bus (labelled FCE) will take you to the Cittadella Universitaria. For that you need to take FCE buses with direction “Catania” or “Parcheggio Santa Sofia”, getting off at the 1st stop of Via Santa Sofia. The same ticket is valid for, both, Metro and the shuttle bus. You can find a route map of the Metro at this link. Alternatively, you can walk to the closest BRT1 stop (see option 1), also called "Milo", which is about 100 m away: here you find a map of the Metro stop Milo and the BRT1 stop "Milo".
Tickets for both BRT1 or Metro (please note that they are different tickets) may be purchased at Newspaper or Tobacco kiosks. Metro ticket may be purchased also at automatic machines inside the Metro. The price of one tickets is 1 Euro and it lasts 90 minutes starting on validation time.
Once you reach the "Cittadella Ovest" bus stop, you can walk to the Campus entrance see map at this link.
In order to go back to the city center, you can walk to the opposite entrance of the campus and take the BRT1 at bus stop “Cittadella Est”.
