Read here below and you will be convinced this is going to be a great happening

You will find information about:
-Speakers
-Location
-Hotel
-Travel
-Schedule
-Payment (Convention only 20.- euro, incl. banquet !)
-Sightseeing

AND PLEASE REGISTER NOW to help the organizers to do the best possible job! Inform Hubert Jongen at info@libertarian.to
or Stanislaw Gorka : s_gorka@vela.filg.uj.edu.pl

LET US KNOW:

- When do you plan to arrive/depart?
- Do you want us to reserve the hotel? (We might get group-reduction)
- Which nights?
- Or do you take care for your own stay? See below (Hotel) for help.
- Do you plan to join the trip to AUSCHWITZ?
- How do you want to pay?
- BANQUET, let us know if you are vegetarian or have a diet
- Do you have other wishes/suggestions?

Hans-Hermann Hoppe - OK
      "Monarchy, Democracy, and Natural Order.
      A revisionist interpretation of modern history"
      (Topic of HHH's recent book)
Professor Justyna Miklaszewska - OK
Bertrand Lemennicier - OK
      "Just war theories and contemporary wars"
Dariusz Jurus - OK
      "An Aristotelian Defence of Rights"
Christian Michel - OK
      "Botticelli's Spring, A Tale Of Love And Liberation"
Tomasz Teluk - OK.
Brian Micklethwait - OK
Derek Bernard - OK
      "The Human Right to Self-Defence".

Anthony de Jasay - yes in principle,
Professor Jan Winiecki - pending

Several others still have to arrange their agenda !

All (conference room, hotel, restaurants) will be at Cracow's Old Town. It is very compact, strict centre part of the town, predominantly medieval and Renaissance, as for Poland really old.
Old Town is very compact - 1200 m long and 750 m wide.
Central Railway Station and main bus station are about 300 - 400 meters away from the perimeter of the Old Town.
Cracow's airport (Balice, official name "John Paul II") is about 15 km from the centre.

Hotel Campanile (ul. Sw. Tomasza 34 [St. Thomas Street, 34], phone: +48 12 42 42 600, fax: +48 12 42 42 601, e-mail: krakow@campanile.com.pl web: www.campanile.com.pl Prices with breakfast: group rate (minimum of 20 people): one person in a room - 55 Euro; two person in double room -60 Euro (30 Euro per person).
Individual rate: weekend: one person -53 Euro; double - 66 Euro; Monday-Friday - 66 Euro.

The hotel is a new building (one of a few in the centre), constructed a few years ago. All rooms have air conditioning, a bathroom with both bath and shower, automatic wake-up call, a telephone, with direct outside line connections, a computer socket for Internet connections (you pay like for local calls), a work desk, cable TV, there is electric kettle in every room (coffee making facilities).
Rooms are about 18-20 square meters.
That is typical contemporary 2 or 3 stars hotel.
It is in the perimeter of the Old Town, just on your way from railway or bus station to the central square (Main Market Square).

A short list of www SITES with tourists/ hotels information:
http://www.discover-poland.pl/
www.onetravel.pl
www.inyourpocket.com
In case you need help in finding another hotel/ hostel dorms,
Stamislaw might be able to help you.
Mail: s_gorka@vela.filg.uj.edu.pl

Cracow has direct air connections with: Chicago, Frankfurt, London, Paris, Rome, Tel Aviv, Vienna, Zurich, and Warsaw.
Unfortunately, arrivals and departures are not always suitable for us. You might consider connections to/from Warsaw (capitol of Poland, a lot of flights) and Katowice (airport is about 80 km from Cracow and has other connections with Germany).
You need two and a half hours from Warsaw to Cracow by train.
BTW: From Amsterdam the cheapest connection we could find is via Vienna with Austrian Airlines

PRE - Convention
Thursday 20.
-Several participants plan to arrive on Thursday March 20.
-Try to meet other early birds for dinner.

Friday 21
- Arrange tour to AUSCHWITZ
- Evening informal dinner with other participants

CONVENTION Saturday 22 and Sunday 23 March
- 08.00 Registration
- 09.00 -10.00 meeting
-10.00 -11.00 meeting
Coffee break
11.20 - 12.20 meeting
Lunch break
14.00 -15.00 meeting
15.00 -16.00 meeting
Coffee Break
16.20 - 17.20 meeting

The "Official Banquet" is on SATURDAY NIGHT.

You can pay at registration (to save bank-costs) However if you prefer to pay by bank, you can send a check or make a transfer to the accounts :

LIBERTARIAN INTERNATIONAL,
P.O.Box 21, B-2910 ESSEN, Belgium
FAX: +31-165-348035 (NL)

RABOBANK, Laan van Limburg 2, 4701 BP Roosendaal
The Netherlands, -- SWIFT : Rabonl2u
Account of LIBERTARIAN INTERNATIONAL, nb. 17.43.35.350

An amount of 150 Euro can cover two nights hotel, convention costs, and including the "banquet". Any "small" differences can be settled at registration.

Krakow is a very nice city in Poland with a great history. Plan a few extra days when you attend the convention.

Cracow will not have you bored. It has one of the best preserved city centers of Poland. Just strolling around without even entering any of the many historical monuments will keep you busy for a day (we suggest you to add a day or two to your schedule).

Churches (There is plenty of historical churches in Cracow. In the Old Town I recomend following ones):

St. Mary's Basilica (Kosciol Mariacki), Rynek Glówny 4, 13th-15th century, Gotic style Cracow's parish church. The magnificent altarpiece was for 12 painstaking years the principal work of the 15th century artist, Veit Stoss and depicts the Virgin Mary's Quietus among the apostles (maybe the most splendid Gothic wooden altar in Europe - over 200 statues, the largest are 2.8 m tall).

The most charming of Kraków traditions must be the 'hejnal', the bugle call played live every hour, every day from the four sides of St. Mary's highest tower. Legend has it that when the Tatars invaded Kraków in the past, the man playing the warning song was shot in the neck, abruptly cutting off the song in mid-melody. There's little documentation of the tradition, however.

St. Francis' Basilica (Bazylika Sw. Franciszka), pl. Wszystkich Swietych. 13th century basilica was the first brick building in town, now is adorned with amazing Art Nouveau windows and decorations.

Sts Peter & Paul's (Kosciól Sw. Piotra i Pawla), ul. Grodzka 54. This is Cracow's premier Jesuit Church, from the early 1600s.

St. Andrew's Church (Kosciól Sw. Andrzeja), ul. Grodzka 56. This is the finest example of Romanesque architecture of Cracow (11th century), interior is remodeled in Baroque style, however.

St. Anne's Collegiate Church (Kolegiata Sw. Annny), ul. Sw. Anny 11. The most beautiful Baroque church in Cracow.

In the center of town's main square ("Rynek" - the Market Square) you can see the 'Cloth Hall', a medieval market hall (14th century, rebuided in the Renaissance and later). The Cloth Hall still performs its commercial functions in the present day (a lot of gift shops).

Wawel Hill (The Royal Castle and Cathedral), directly to the south from the Old Town.
The place has been dukes and royal seat of power since 10th century. In the year 1000 a bishopric was established in Cracow. The Royal Castle is a conglomeration of Medieval, Romanesque, Renaissance and Baroque styles each brought by different rulers. Royal Chambers are adorned by splendid collection of Renaissance tapestries. The interior of Wawel Cathedral is overwhelmingly full of spectacular chapels, tombs and sarcophagi.

Amongst 30 Cracow's museums I recommend 'Czartoryski Museum', ul. Sw. Jana 19. Its principle claim to fame is the possession of Leonardo da Vinci's 'Lady with an Ermine' and the 'Landscape with the Good Samaritan' by Rembrandt (also collections of arm and armours, ancient relics).
You can visit the Jagiellonian University Museum (the university has been established in 1364), ul. Jagiellonska 15, located in Gothic building, the Collegium Maius (1400), with beautiful square courtyard and gallery.

Jewish Cracow
Kazimierz is the Jewish district of that housed Kraków's Jews for 500 years. After its liquidation in WWII, the area was abandoned with ruined buildings remaining. In the past decade however, Kazimierz has been rediscovered and its Jewish culture is gradually being symbolically re-introduced. Jewish hotels and restaurants have now opened their doors, as well as many trendy non-Jewish bars.

Isaac's Synagogue, ul. Kupa 18, opened in 1644 is the most beautiful of the Kazimierz synagogues, built in Judaic-Baroque style. Renovation is not complete yet.
Old Synagogue, ul. Szeroka 24, built on the cusp of the 15th and 16th centuries, serves as the oldest surviving example of Jewish religious architecture in Poland.
Remuh Synagogue & Cemetery, ul. Szeroka 40. The smallest but probably most active synagogue in Kazimierz. The cemetery was in use from 1551 until 1800.

If you remember Steven Spielberg movie 'Schindler's List', it is partly about Cracow's Jews and take place in Cracow.

For those who can come to Cracow for a little more than our two days long convention I recommend to become more familiar with

Auschwitz (www.auschwitz-museum.oswiecim.pl)
75 km west of Cracow is city Oswiecim (Auschwitz) with Nazi's labour camp KZ Auschwitz I and the death camp KZ Auschwitz II-Birkenau (you. can get Owiêcim by bus or train). There is museum in Auschwitz I (exhibits, films), but do not miss to visit Auschwitz II-Birkenau camp (more impressive by its size - over 300 wooden barracks and buildings on 175 hectares). Admission free.

Wieliczka Salt Mine (www.kopalnia.pl)
15 km from Cracow is lying a small town Wieliczka, famous for its historical salt mine. It has been running for a thousand years and the most ancient part of it was turned into a museum in 1950. UNESCO added it to the World Culture and Heritage list in 1978. You can see mine shafts, galleries, chapels and altars with statues, all made of salt. You can get the Wieliczka salt mine by train or better by bus.

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