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Oviedo, the Asturias capital city, has a charming old town where XIX century is always present as per some of the buildings you may see at streets that Clarin took as an inspiration to write famous La Regenta. An itinerary around Oviedo squares –Consitución, Catedral, Trascorrales, del Riego or Daoiz & Velarde- is maybe the best way to get into this beautiful urban landscape. Oviedo is at the same time a modern city that grew up around its old town. Today, Oviedo, is without discussion one of the best congress venues we may evaluate.
At communications side, A66 motorway links Oviedo to the whole Spanish Atlantic corridor as well as to the rest of Spain. Asturias airport is a very synergetic, efficient premises shared with Gijón and Avilés linking Asturias to the rest of Spain and to some of main European capitals. By railway, Oviedo, is a city perfectly communicated with the rest of Spain too.
The Palacio de Congresos Auditorio Príncipe Felipe is the main congress hall of the city. It has 10 halls with a main auditorium able to 1,500 people, being technically able to be increased this capacity up to 2,000 people. On location at the heart of Oviedo, pedestrian access is one of the luxury issues of this venue. Without any architectonic barriers, the Auditorio Príncipe Felipe is one of the best Spanish Congress Halls. Oviedo anyway will have soon the Palacio de Exposiciones y Congresos Ciudad de Oviedo, a hiper modern meeting center by arquitect Santiago Calatrava and planning to have a plenary hall for 2,150 delegates. Without leaving Oviedo downtown, Campoamor Theatre has two main halls with 1,400 seats on theatre format, while the Colegio Oficial de Médicos has sis halls for 500 people meeting.
Oviedo hotel park is excellent both to plan a congress at a hotel or to define the strategy for our event. Oviedo is a city holding over 2,000 rooms having ¾ of them at 3*** & 4**** cathegories. A brief checklist of this hotel stock may help us to mention on 5 star cathegory the Barceló Oviedo Cervantes -72 rooms and 11 function rooms for up to 300 persons-, AC Forum Oviedo -155 rooms and 4function rooms for up to 350 guests- and specially, at Oviedo’s very heart, hotel Reconquista, an old and solid building built on XVIII century former Hospital of Asturias Principauté, and today, a National Monument which holds 142 rooms and nine function rooms for events up to 500 people. Four km away Oviedo, and still on 5 star hotel cathegory, at the Zoreda Forest, you may find hotel Castillo Bosque de la Zoreda, a glamourous small palace built by 1900 with 13 function rooms for meetings up to 1,400 assitants on theatre format or 1,600 at cocktail one.
At 4 star cathegory the hotel list becomes much bigger and with a lot of more possibilities, so you have at downtown the Gran Hotel España at a classique style building with 89 rooms and six function rooms fro 270 guests. Husa Domingo Plaza has about 100 rooms and six function rooms for events up to 350 persons as Silken Monumental Naranco offers 64 rooms and four function rooms for about 300 persons. Gran Hotel Regente, also at 4 star hotel list hs 122 rooms and nine function rooms for 200 persons; Tryp Oviedo stands with 118 rooms and four function rooms for 250 guests and La Gruta, a very modern and efficient complex with very good natural sunlight illumination has 105 rooms and 10 function rooms for 500 assistants. On 3*** hotel cathegory I would like still to mention two hotels: Las Lomas -102 rooms and five function rooms for around 500 persons- and NH Principado -97 rooms and four function rooms for 250 persons-.
During our congress we must not avoid at restaurant not the typical Fabada Asturiana dish nor Apple local Sidra as a drink. A visit to one of the apple sidra breweries may complete a nice leisure program during the congress. About excursions out of the event, both a pedestrian visit to Oviedo city and an extension to the wild and beautiful coastal towns are good advices. Oviedo is for Top Congress a very important destination we take into consideration for our candidatures. Oviedo, due to strategic key points like experience and kindness of their people and to the fact that distances are affordable just by walking, will make your congress to be a successful one. |