Mediterranean Editors and Translators Meeting 2007 – METM 07
Building Bridges, Constructing Networks

Real Jardín Botánico/CSIC, Plaza de Murillo 2, 28014 Madrid, Spain

25-26 October 2007:	Pre-METM Workshops and General Assembly
27 October 2007:	Meeting
28 October 2007:	Post-METM Excursion

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Overview

Workshops

General Assembly

Venue & Sponsors

Local Information

Registration

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Local Information & Excursion

This map shows the venue, metro stations and meeting points.

Accommodation

All suggestions are near the Royal Botanical Garden, as well as the Prado, Thyssen and Reina Sofía Museums, the Puerta del Sol, etc. Lodging in this area of Madrid is in heavy demand the year round. To avoid last-minute problems, early reservations are recommended.

Two reasonably priced hotels (**) are near the venue:

Other hotels (***) nearby:

Madrid is full of hostels, room prices ranging from around €35 to €65, usually without breakfast. Some rooms are available with en suite bathrooms. Few individual rooms are available. These establishments are clean and good value for money. Their only drawback may less-than-perfect soundproofing, as they are often converted flats. Try for rooms at one of the following, or look for one on the Internet in the area between Puerta del Sol and Paseo del Prado.

 

Closing dinner (included in conference fee, Saturday 26 October 2007)

The Samarkanda restaurant overlooks the palm, banana and mahogany trees of a large indoor tropical garden at the the Atocha Railway Station, a short walk from the Royal Botanical Garden. Recently refurbished, Atocha is a fine cast-iron and glass structure from the late 1800s.

Excursion to Toledo (optional, Sunday, 28 October 2007)

An excursion to Toledo, near Madrid, will feature the story of how this once-multilingual, cosmopolitan city was a center of translation of texts in Arabic to Latin in the 12th century. Translators collaborated in trilingual teams to make works of philosophy and science available to readers of Latin in cities where scholarly communities were gradually developing into universities — Bologna, Oxford, Paris and more.

The fee for this tour by MET’s special interest group on Mediterranean communications history includes a return ticket on a high-speed train from Atocha Station, a full Spanish Sunday lunch, and entrance fees. We’ll leave Madrid shortly after 9 AM and return around 7 PM.