Public transport information

The best public-transport option for getting to METM13 is the direct train from Barcelona to L’Espluga de Francolí, a small town 3 km from the conference venue. Very few of these trains run each day, but the arrival and departure times are very convenient.

Please note that a shuttle service courtesy of our sponsor, eCPD Webinars, will take METM participants from the L’Espluga de Francolí train station to the conference venue on Thursday, 24 October. Return service will be provided on Sunday, 27 October. Participants arriving on a high-speed (AVE) train at either Camp de Tarragona or Lleida station have the option of requesting a shuttle service for a fee of €15/leg (details here).

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Recommended trains: Barcelona > L’Espluga de Francolí. Price (one-way): €10.40 We think this is the best public-transport option. There’s a convenient train that leaves Barcelona Passeig de Gràcia station at 11:56 and stops at Barcelona Sants station at 12:03. It reaches L’Espluga at 14:13. (Departure screens list it as a train for Lleida, which is its final destination.) NEW! Meet up with fellow conferencegoers who are also taking this train. Click here to sign up for the OFF-METM GROUP TRAIN RIDE. There’s also a later train (also bound for Lleida) that leaves Passeig de Gràcia at 13:55, stops at Sants at 14:03 and arrives in L’Espluga de Francolí at 16:03. (However, if you plan to attend a Thursday afternoon workshops at 17:00, please note that you’ll be cutting it awfully close!)  NEW! Meet up with fellow conferencegoers who are also taking this train. Click here to sign up for the OFF-METM GROUP TRAIN RIDE. For information about other departure times from Barcelona, click here.