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The 2006 International Consulting Engineering Conference, Budapest,
organized by FIDIC, EFCA and AHCEA offers an exciting and varied social programme. Included
in the participants' and accompanying persons' registrations are the Welcome
Reception, Opening Ceremony and Gala Dinner. Extra
tickets can be purchased for these events before 15 August
2006.
There are also optional events and post-conference tours for which tickets must be purchased,
also by 15 August 2006. Buses generally leave from and return to the three
conference hotels (Hotel Intercontinental, Best Western Grand Hotel Hungaria,
Ibis Budapest Vaci Ut)
Accompanying persons can be registered and paid for online
and using the offline registration
form, where tickets for optional events, and extra tickets for events
included in the conference and accompanying persons' registrations, can also be
booked and paid for by credit card.
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| SUNDAY 24 September |
14:00 -
17:00
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Budapest
Sightseeing Tour (optional)
Buses leave from the conference hotels at 14.00
Price: 30 Euro/person, taxes included
English-speaking tour guide |
Budapest and the Danube from Gellért Hill. |
| A three-hour sightseeing tour by bus introducing, in English, the capital’s most attractive features. The tour includes: |
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Heroes’ Square with the Millennium Monument |
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Gellért Hill, which offers a breathtaking panorama of the
city |
| Return to the
conference hotels. |
| 19:30 - 21.30 |
Welcome Reception
(included)
Museum of Ethnography
Buses leave from the conference hotels at 19.00
Includes buffet dinner
Extra tickets: 70 Euro/person, taxes included |
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start leaving for the conference hotels at 21.30. |
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| MONDAY 25 September
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| 08:15 |
Buses leave from the conference hotels for the National Theatre. |
Construction of Budapest's new National Theatre began in September
2000 and took only 15 months. Standing between the Danube and Soroksári Street, by the Pest end of the Lágymányos Bridge, the main
entrance is on the side facing the Gellért Hill. Take tram 2 from Jászai
Mari tér to Vágóhíd, or tram 24 from Baross tér.
Website
The State Opera House, with its magnificent
facade, is located on one of Budapest's most beautiful streets.
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| 09:00 - 10.00 |
Opening Ceremony (included)
National Theatre
Extra tickets: 20 Euro/person, taxes included |
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10:00 - 10.30 |
Coffee |
10:30 - 15.30
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Day Tour: Budapest City (optional)
Buses leave from in front of the National Theatre at 10.30 and return to the
conference hotels.
Price: 70 Euro/person, taxes included.
English speaking tour guide, the entrance fee to the Parliament and lunch
included. |
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Central Market Hall in District IX
A hub of activity, which draws locals interested in the best buys of the day as well as large groups of visitors who marvel at the stupendous turn-of-the-century building and the curious assortment of edibles that the locals consume. |
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St. Stephen’s Basilica
The immense, classical neo-Renaissance St. Stephen’s Basilica is Budapest's largest church.
Built in memory of the first King of Hungary, construction took nearly 50
years. |
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Parliament Building
One of the Hungary's largest buildings. This eclectic building with, on the
outside, gothic towers, intricate stonework and 88 statues and
inside a baroque grand staircase, frescoes, mosaic windows, Gobelin tapestries and paintings,
is a splendid showcase for the arts of 1885-1904. |
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19:30 - 22.00 |
Evening Event (optional)
Hungarian State Opera House
Buses leave from the conference hotels at 19.00.
Price: 65 Euro/person, taxes included.
Buses start leaving for the conference hotels at 21.30. Last bus leaves at
22.00. |
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TUESDAY 26 September
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09:00 - 16.00
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Day Tour: Szentendre and Visegrád (optional)
Buses leave from the Hotel Intercontinental at 09.00 and return to the
hotel.
Price: 110 Euro/person, taxes included
English speaking guide, the entrance fees and lunch included. |
Szentendre
Budapest's Danubius Hotel Gellért on the right bank of the Danube, one of the most
Hungary's historic hotels, opening in1918.
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Szentendre is the most picturesque little town along the Hungarian stretch of the Danube, and home to sculptors and painters. The town is famed for its
seven churches, its rich museums, exhibitions of contemporary art and galleries. Hungary’s largest open-air ethnographic
museum (Skansen) is situated on the edge of the town. Its old peasant houses, church and handicraft workshops are well worth visiting. |
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Visegrád castle's two-moat defence system was built by King Béla IV and his wife Maria Lascaris in 1250-60 following the Mongol invasion.
Over the centuries, several kings from the Angevins to Matthias Corvinus extended and modernised the castle so that it would meet the
new requirements for comfort and military standards. |
| 19.00 - 24.00 |
Gala
Dinner (included)
Hotel Gellért Ballroom
Buses leave from the conference hotels at 18.30
Price: 80 Euro/person, taxes included.
Buses start returning to the conference hotels at 23.30. Last bus
leaves at 24.00. |
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| WEDNESDAY 27 September |
20.00 - 23.00
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Dinner Cruise on the Danube (optional)
Boats depart from the landing place of Vigadó tér, a short walk from the
Hotel Intercontinental.
Price: 90 Euro/person, taxes included.
Includes: the cost of the ship, tour guide, music, dinner. |
The Maria Valeria Bridge, Esztergom, originally
built in 1895. Rebuilding ended in 2001. |
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Floodlit Budapest gives a wonderful frame for the dinner. A guide gives the
most important historic information about the capital and the buffet dinner,
accompanied by organ music, includes wine and draft beer. |
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THURSDAY 28 September
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10:00
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Post-Conference Tours
- Debrecen (three days)
- Lake Balaton (two days) |
Lake Balaton and its vineyards. |
| See Post-Conference Tours |
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