Conferences Venue

Caribe by Faranda Grand Hotel is a hotel that opens the doors to the classic, modernity, and innovation in Cartagena de Indias city, in a space in which good taste, elegance, and comfortable living ensure an unforgettable experience.

Caribe by Faranda Grand Hotel is a cozy hotel in Cartagena de Indias city, in the Caribbean Colombian, where you will enjoy a relaxing vacation with your partner, children, or friends; this hotel is one of the most representative accommodations in this city with a long historic, cultural, gastronomic, and tourist tradition.

Enjoy a hotel in Cartagena de Indias with a historic, cultural, and vacation style, where you will find restaurants, free Wi-Fi in common areas and rooms, a playground, swimming pool for adults and children; its impressive combination of colonial and modern architecture and design invites you to enjoy an exclusive hotel with the best location in town.

Caribe by Faranda Grand Hotel is located on the beachfront in the Bocagrande neighborhood, in Carrera 1, #2–87; the hotel is approximately 9 kilometers from Rafael Núñez International Airport, approximately 18 kilometers from the transport terminal, and close to the historic center of the city, so that of the beaches, restaurants, bars, and shopping malls in the city. Therefore, Caribe by Faranda Grand Hotel is the perfect place to relax and escape from routine.

Caribe by Faranda Grand Hotel in Cartagena de Indias city is equipped as a perfect hotel that can cater for any corporate event, cultural, academic, scientific, and social, from small presentations or meetings to large conferences, with conference rooms, private rooms, and rooms for parties and celebrations. It is a hotel first-class meeting venue perfect, which is tailored to meet all guest's requirements and functions in an environment that will motivate and inspire delegates; the combination of a colonial and tranquil setting coupled with superb facilities ensures a memorable and productive event.

The highly professional conference staff is available to assist guests in any aspect of the organization and event planning; they dedicate themselves to providing high standards and invaluable assistance. You can visit the official site of the Caribe by Faranda Grand Hotel, for more information here:

   


The 7th IMRMPT organizing committee has arranged special prices for the participants. Booking at the conference hotel: The price for the room (for single use) is COP 465.000 (breakfast is included); for more information, please contact:

Yohana Carrero Arzuza
E-mail: ventas@hotelcaribe.com
Mobile/WhatsApp number: +57 320 565 2755
Telephone: +57 605 650 1160 ext. 7809

By airplane:

The Rafael Núñez International Airport has direct connections with almost all Colombia towns. The airlines that frequently have direct flights to Medellín city are Avianca, LATAM, Ultra, Viva Air, or Wingo.

By bus:

The Bus stations of Cartagena de Indias city have direct connections with almost all Colombia towns.

It is a city made by the Gods with a perfect nature for people, where the rhythm becomes vibrant, fast, full of fantasy and intensity and you can experience everything you want. Everything is nearby, just beside you; you only must make the decision.

The Cartagena de Indias city, founded on June 1, 1533, was the place of some of the most relevant events that have marked Colombian history; the city is the gateway to the South America continent, the capital of the department of Bolivar, is located in northern Colombia, on the shores of the Caribbean Sea. The city of Cartagena de Indias, known as "La Heroica", is surrounded by several archipelagos and islands that are paradises of true relaxation; the city has an area of approximately 620 square kilometers, at an altitude average of 2 m meters above sea level, the temperature in June varies between 25 °C and 32 °C, and has approximately a population of 1,050,000 inhabitants. Cartagena de Indias, in 1984, was declared a World Heritage Site by the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization.

In Cartagena de Indias city, the sun sets the changes mood to make this, the city the friendliest, most colorful, and most charming of Colombia; Cartagena de Indias is a city with an infrastructure of contrasts, that has parks, universities, museums, churches, famous monuments, a castle, malls, and spaces where many cultural events and festivals take place.

The history and a detailed description of the city of Cartagena de Indias can be known by walking the cobblestone streets of the historic center, architectural and cultural heritage, which is surrounded by long miles of ancient walls that make up the walled city; also, you can appreciate the impressive Castle of San Felipe de Barajas dating from the seventeenth century.

Cartagena de Indias has the busiest port system in Colombia, which has established itself as a major logistics and international transshipment port specializing in container trade; moreover, the city receives approximately 150 cruise ships per year and is a port of embarkation for Royal Caribbean Cruises.

Where to go in Cartagena de Indias city?

In Cartagena de Indias city, the visitors always find something to do walk by the city, especially the historic center, contemplate the graffiti of the Getsemaní neighborhood; visit the cathedral and churches, the San Felipe castle, the Popa hill, the Naval Museum, the Gold Museum, the monuments to India Catalina, to the Old Shoes, and to the Pegasos. In addition, they will be able to have fun in the clubs, pubs, bars, and restaurants that are concentrated in different city places; the sectors most popular are Bocagrande and the historic center, a place where the residents and tourists find a wide variety of important nightlife venues; in this sector, the party usually lasts until dawn.

An attractive very interesting is to visit and enjoy the resting paradises provided by Rosario Island, Baru Island, San Bernardo Island, and Tierra Bomba Island, as well as the beaches that surround them.

What to eat?

In Cartagena de Indias city, there is a variety of gastronomic food national and international that is very delicious; the cuisine of Cartagena de Indias is a cultural gastronomic legacy, strongly influenced by Africans, Spaniards, and Native Americans, which is the result of an exquisite combination of dishes based on intense flavors, exotic tropical fruits and regional ingredients which represent the Colombian Caribbean.

The cuisine of Cartagena de Indias city has a popular origin based on fried foods, rice, soups, and stews, but it has also adopted elements from other regions of the planet Earth. One of the most recognized dishes is the posta cartagenera or posta negra, which is a cut of meat that is fried with black soda, black sauce, red wine, or tincture of panela until it acquires a black color and then red onion, tomato, garlic, and pepper, among other native species are added; likewise, other gastronomic delights of Cartagena de Indias are rice with coconut, rice with seafood, rice with chipi chipi, pork loin in tamarind sauce, seafood casserole, catfish casserole, fried fish, three-phase sancocho, shrimp cream, shrimp cocktail, ceviche, mote de queso, carimañolas, and arepa with eggs.

When to visit?

The 365 days of the year are the best time to visit Cartagena de Indias.

How to travel?

You can get to Cartagena de Indias city by airplane or bus from different towns in Colombia; in the city, it is more comfortable to walk or go by taxi, which is very cheap.

Who hasn’t had something to say or who hasn’t lived unforgettable moments about Cartagena de Indias city? Then, you simply choose to come to Cartagena de Indias city; where the unique risk is that you want to stay.

Hope to see you in Cartagena de Indias






7th IMRMPT
Seventh International Meeting for Researchers in Materials and Plasma Technology


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