Wikimania 2016 bids/Esino Lario/Meeting rooms/Villa Monastero

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Villa Monastero is an astonishing beautiful villa on Lake Como. It is a public building (owned by the Province of Lecco) with a conference centre in Varenna and with some rooms.

Address: Varenna

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Owner: Province of Lecco

Cost: Full rate 2.250,00 euro per day (including meeting rooms and accommodation)

Distance from Villa Clotilde (information desk and registration site): around 30 minutes by car (Villa Monastero is in Varenna).

Website: http://www.villamonastero.eu/index.php/en/

Description

Conference and meeting rooms (5 rooms)

Name	Capacity	Seats
The Fermi Hall	65-88	Theatre
The Council room	15	Single table
The black room	25	Theatre
The multimedia room	25	School
The Polvani room	30	Horseshoe

Accommodation

12 bedrooms with view of the lake (4 single and 8 double).

Wikimania Esino Lario venue

We have booked Villa Monastero to use it for

• GLAM event.
• Press conferences.
• Accommodation.
• Presence in Varenna - a major hub coming from Milan.
• Back up plan for the hackathon in case of difficult connectivity in Esino Lario. Villa Monastero regularly hosts the national conference of physics and it has access to the GARR, a fast connectivity of the Italian national research centre.

Further documentation

Villa Monastero on Wikimedia Commons

The garden

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Inside the villa

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The rooms

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