MWP 2024 has the pleasure to invite you to attend the Get Together event where you will get the opportunity to meet and socialise with colleagues that are attending the conference.
Comeliana Domus is located in the center of Pisa, in an absolutely unique and privileged position, a few steps from the beautiful Piazza del Duomo (Piazza dei Miracoli), where you can enjoy the famous leaning tower, the Duomo Cathedral, the Battistero (Baptistery) and the Campo Santo (Graveyard).
Date: Tuesday September 17, 2024
Time: 19:00 – 21:00 CEST
Location: Domus Comeliana – Via Cardinale Maffi 48, Pisa (PI)
Price: Included in the registration fee
Price for additional person: 40,00 €
At the end of the get together, a classical music concert by Italian composers will be held at the Sant’Anna Church. (see more Information)
The church was originally built for the Carmelite order in 1325-1328. By 1425, it was decorated with a famed, now dispersed, polyptych by Masaccio. Only one panel of the altarpiece remains in Pisa in the National Museum of San Matteo. The altarpiece for the Chapel of St. Julian is by Masaccio, assisted by Andrea di Giusto, who painted the predella and assisted with the central panel, “Madonna and Child with Angels”. The church underwent many reconstructions across the centuries. Both the church and the adjoining monastery underwent extensive transformations between the second half of the 16th century and 1612, when it was newly consecrated. The present simple façade was designed by Alessandro Gherardesca, in the 1830s. The interior has an organ by Andrea Ravani made in 1613, and altars with painting by Baccio Lomi, Aurelio Lomi, Santi di Tito, Alessandro Allori, Francesco Curradi, and Andrea Boscoli. Since April 2021 the building is closed for an extensive restoration campaign. It is scheduled to reopen in 2022.
Date: Wednesday September 18, 2024
Time: 20:00 CEST
Location: Chiostro Santa Maria del Carmine – Corso Italia, 85, Pisa (PI)
Price: Included in the registration fee
Price for additional person: 80,00 €
Don’t miss the Piazza dei Miracoli tour!
Pisa’s Cathedral Square-dominated by the Cathedral, the Baptistery, the Bell Tower and the Camposanto (the Campo Santo)-represents an architectural ensemble characterized by a truly astonishing stylistic accord.
Every visitor entering this space is enraptured by the sudden vision of the four monuments, a vision that appears “miraculous.”
We are looking forward to showing you our wonders!
Futher info about purchasing the tickets and visiting the Square will be soon furnished
Date: Thursday September 19, 2024
Time: 13:00 – 14:00 CEST
Location: Piazza dei Miracoli Pisa (PI)
Price: 20,00 €
*Meeting point in front of the entrance of the Domus Comeliana
Don’t miss the visit to Piazza dei Miracoli tour!
The Leaning Tower of Pisa, or simply the Tower of Pisa, is the campanile, or freestanding bell tower, of Pisa Cathedral. It is known for its nearly four-degree lean, the result of an unstable foundation. The tower is one of three structures in the Pisa’s Cathedral Square (Piazza del Duomo), which includes the cathedral and Pisa Baptistry.
The height of the tower is 55.86 metres (183 feet 3 inches) from the ground on the low side and 56.67 m (185 ft 11 in) on the high side. The width of the walls at the base is 2.44 m (8 ft 0 in). Its weight is estimated at 14,500 tonnes (16,000 short tons). The tower has 296 or 294 steps; the seventh floor has two fewer steps on the north-facing staircase.
Date: Thursday September 19, 2024
Time: 18:00 – 19:00 CEST
Location: Piazza dei Miracoli Pisa (PI)
Price: 20,00 €
*Meeting point in front of the entrance of the Domus Comeliana
The VIRGO laser interferometer is located in the countryside near Pisa, at less than 20km from the Leaning Tower. It is an incredible “instrument” composed of two 3km-long interfering arms for the study of gravitational waves, the existence of which was predicted by Albert Einstein a hundred years ago.
VIRGO contributed to the first detection of gravitational waves on 14 September 2015. That detection deserved the 2017 Nobel Prize in Physics for the LIGO-VIRGO researchers.
Join us in a guided tour through the technical challenges and scientific successes of this revolutionary observatory on the universe.
A bus transfer service will be organized from the conference venue.
Date: Friday September 20, 2024
Time: 16:15 – 18:00 CEST
Location: Via Amaldi, 56021 Santo Stefano a Macerata, Cascina (Pisa), Italy. Bus transfer included
Price: 20,00 €
*Meeting point in front of the entrance of the Domus Comeliana
