Travel & Accommodations.

We searched Barcelona city wide to hold the conference with the perfect backdrop…the Beach! And to keep in tune with our open source ways, we are including 2 nights FREE at the Hilton Diagonal Mar Hotel (this is for the Full Conference Pass + 2 nights hotel only)

Hilton DiagonalMar
Passeig del Taulat 262-264
Barcelona, Spain 08019
Tel: +34-93-507 0707  Fax: +34-93-507 0700 

The Hilton Diagonal Mar Barcelona is situated in a new neighbourhood of the city in the environment of the third largest park of Barcelona, 14 hectares of footpaths, lakes and green zone, children's play area and sports facilities and within walking distance to the beach. Next to the hotel you can find the new international Convention Centre (CCIB) and you can enjoy the comfort to find everything you need in the commercial and leisure centre of Diagonal Mar offering a hypermarket, AMC cinemas with 18 screens, 240 shops, a 5,000 m2 terrace with restaurants and leisure activities and underground parking with 5000 spaces.

It takes only 20 minutes to get to the city centre by car and the Barcelona International Airport is located 16km from the hotel, 25 minutes by taxi. The access route such as Avenida Diagional, Rambia Prim are convenient and well known. The area is connected by a network of bus and underground lines from all points of the city.

ABOUT BARCELONA

Get ready to discover a modern, cosmopolitan, vibrant city which faces the sea. A convenient city which is the perfect place for a stroll. Barcelona opens its doors to you, so that you can enjoy its wealth of history and culture, its attractive range of shops, excellent cuisine, and a whole host of leisure attractions. The climate, the Mediterranean light, the people, the beaches and its atmosphere invite you to experience it to the full at any time of the day or night.

There are monuments of Romanesque, Gothic and Renaissance periods or still before, but most characteristic is what has been built during the last, say, 100 years. Barcelona has been a centre of Modernist architecture and is distinguished especially by the works of genial Antoní Gaudí, who together with his great contemporaries gave new and exciting looks to it, but has remained since then at the top of modernity. If you want to find out which are the very latest tendencies today - go to discover it here.