Venue Information
Location
Main Venue: Campus Sant’Ignazio (St. Ignatius Campus) Via Sant’Ignazio da Laconi, 76, Cagliari, Sardinia (Italy).
Coffee Breaks and Lunches: Internal courtyard or Room A’s courtyard of the Main Venue.
Relax Zone: Free access to Orto Botanico (Botanic Garden) Via Sant’Ignazio da Laconi, 11, Cagliari, Sardinia (Italy), from July 2 to July 4 (UMAP’24 lanyard badge required).
For any inquiries, please contact the local chairs at umap2024-local at um.org.
Spaces
The main venue for UMAP 2024 is the Sant’Ignazio Campus (St. Ignatius Campus), a complex located in the beautiful setting of the Buoncammino hill, amidst spectacular Roman ruins, city parks, and scenic viewpoints. The Sant’Ignazio Campus is part of the University of Cagliari and serves as the headquarters for the Faculty of Economics, Law, and Political Sciences, equipped with rooms, recreational areas, offices and libraries.
The Sant’Ignazio Campus is located in the city centre of Cagliari, at 76 Viale Sant’Ignazio, a short distance from the central Corso Vittorio Emanuele II and Piazza Yenne. The plenary sessions of the conference will primarily take place in Room A (Aula A), a modern auditorium equipped with 250 seats. Additional sessions and events will be held in Rooms No. 5, No. 12, and No. 13 Aule 5, 12, and 13, all located within the same campus.
Finally, also part of the urban heritage of the University of Cagliari, the Botanical Garden is an important and captivating green space where all lunch/coffee breaks and recreational moments of UMAP 2024 will take place.
Directions
The Sant’Ignazio Campus is located in the city centre and within walking distance to Cagliari’s train station (Piazza Matteotti, 15-17 minutes). The conference venue can also be easily reached by bus or by taxi from Piazza Matteotti, which is the central square of Cagliari (in front of the Cagliari Port and the train station). From Piazza Matteotti, you can take the CTM’s local bus No. 8 to get to via Sant’Ignazio, venue of the conference. The departing bus stop is on the west side of Piazza Matteotti (near the train station), while the arrival is the second stop in Viale Buoncammino. For more information, please look at the Google Maps route from the Cagliari’s train station to the conference venue.
For information about reaching Sardinia (and Cagliari), visit the UMAP 2024 travel page.
Background
University of Cagliari (UniCa)
The history of the University of Cagliari began on 31 October 1620, when King Philip III of Spain signed the privilege of foundation. Today, after its first four hundred years of history, culture, research and interaction with the territory and its protagonists, the University stands as a strong and dynamic reality on the national scene, and it is completely projected towards the future.
To its more than 24,750 students, the University offers a wide and intense educational offer, distributed in fifteen locations and two campuses, which includes Degree and Professional Degree Programmes, Master’s Degree Programmes and Single Cycle Master Degree Programmes. Moreover, the University offers postgraduate courses, first and second-level university Masters, Specialisation Courses and Ph.D. Courses.
These include inclusion and reception services, international mobility programs, a rich museum and cultural heritage, and sports activities. All these elements guarantee the young people who choose to study at UniCa a complete and quality university experience.
Botanic Garden
The Botanic Garden of Cagliari, whose surface area is about 5 hectares, occupies the lower portion of the Palabanda Valley, the bottom of which widens from the higher, more steeply sloping and rugged portion, which houses the Biodiversity Rocks, to the entrance located at the lowest part, near which is the Gymnospermae sector.
The Garden is located in an archaeological area between the Roman Amphitheater, the Capuchin Garden (in which there is a quarry used for the construction of the Amphitheater, later used as a prison and finally as a cistern) and the so-called Villa of Tigellio. This archaeological area features the remains of several Roman domus and a coeval thermal building. The Garden houses three bottle cisterns from the Roman period in good condition, one of which can be visited, some tanks of probable Roman origin, and a well.
The Roman Amphitheater borders the Garden along the northeast side in the upper part of the valley, the University Department of Economics and Business to the north, S. Ignazio da Laconi Avenue along the north and west sides, and the Civil Hospital along the east and southeast sides.