VENUE
The "Ettore Majorana" Centre for Scientific Culture is named after the italian physicist, born in Sicily
in 1906. More than 100 Schools are periodically hosted in EMFCSC. The Centre
is situated in the old pre-mediaeval city of Erice where three restored
monasteries provide an appropriate setting for high intellectual endeavour .
ADDRESS
Ettore Majorana Centre
Via Guarnotta, 26
I-91016 ERICE, Italy
Telephone: +39 0923
869133
Telex 910366 ccsem i
Telefax +39.0923.869226
Cable: CCSEM ERICE
Web page: http://www.ccsem.infn.it
E-mail: hq@emcsc.ccsem.infn.it.
ABOUT ERICE
Erice is one of the old pre-medieval
city in Sicily, close to the city of Trapani . According to legend, Erice, the son of Venus and Neptune, founded a small town
on top of a mountain (750
Meters above sea level) more than three thousand years
ago. Ancients historians consider that Erice was the oldest city in Europe.
Thucydides (~500 B.C.) reprted that the Elymi - the
founders of Erice - were some survivors of the
destruction of Troy.
Homer (~1,000 B.C.),
Theocritus (~300 B.C.), Polybius (~200 B.C.), Virgil (~50 B.C.), Horace (~20
B.C.) and others have celebrated this magnificent spot in their poems.
In Erice you can admire the Castle
of Venus, the Cyclopean
Walls (~800 B.C.) and the Gothic Cathedral (~1300 A.D.). Erice
is at present a mixture of ancient and medieval architecture.
Other masterpieces of
ancient civilization are to be found in the neighborhood
at Motya (Phoenician), Segesta (Elymian) and Selinunte (Greek). On the Aegadian
Islands - theater of the decisive naval battle of the first Punic
War (264-241 B.C.) - neolithic and paleolithic cave paintings and carvings are still visible
in the grottos of Favignana and Levanzo.
Splendid beaches are to be found within about an hour's drive from Erice at San Vito Lo Capo, Scopello
and Cornino.
Erice is about 90
km (1,5 hours's
drive) from Palermo
Airport "Falcone Borsellino".
There are many flights from Rome
to Palermo, a few from Milan
apart from the international connections are available. The staff of
Majorana'Centre will pick-up students and lecturers with a car/minibus from
the Palermo airport to Erice Centre. Please fill in the pick-up form.
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Ettore Majorana
Centre Rabi courtyard
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Entrance of the
Lecture Hall
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