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About the location:

IOLTS 2016 will be held at Sant Feliu de Guixols, Costa Brava, Spain. The area offers a brilliant experience, with so much to offer: a beautiful natural setting, culture, leisure, sport, and a delightful seafront location with a multitude of idyllic small coves and longer bays with fine and golden sand …

Sant Feliu de Guixols has also an impressive monumental site, formed by the parish church and different elements from the Romanesque monastery of the village, with its famous Porta Ferrada.

Sant Feliu de Guixols is close to the main communication routes, in the Costa Brava area, and is situated at:

• 32 km from Girona Airport (33 min by car).
  Private door-to-door transportation between Girona Airport and Sant Feliu de Guixols: 47 €.
• 118 km from Barcelona Airport (1 hour 23 min by car).
  Bus company Sarbus ensures 14 daily trips between Barcelona Airport and Sant Feliu de Guixols: 17 € cost, about 2 hours trip.
• 108 km from Barcelona (1 hour 22 min by car).
• 80 km from Figueres: birthplace Salvador Dalí, housing the Dalí Theatre-Museum considered as the largest surrealistic object in the world.
• 98 km from the French borders.
• 281 km from Montpellier, France (2 hours 59 min by car).

The Venue:

The 22st IEEE International On-Line Testing Symposium will be held at the hotel Eden Roc, located at a 1 km from Sant Feliu de Guixols, and 8 minutes walking distance from the main golden sandy beach of the town. Eden Roc is built on the seafront rocks of a unique and quiet peninsula, enjoying stunning sea views, and is situated at few meters from the seafront, with its nice terraces, gardens, and swimming pools touching the sea.

Along the coast in either direction are a multitude of small coves and longer bays with fine sand and many services. You can spend your entire holiday on a different beach every day.

The hotel amenities include among others, freshwater and seawater outdoor swimming pools, heated indoor swimming pool, comfortable lounges, elegant living rooms, 2 bars, own bridge and billiards room, health center, massage service, hot tubs, 2 restaurants with abundant barbecue buffet at noon and in the evening a buffet with elected specialties of the region.