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The building is situated near tram and bus stops of public transport to city centre and other important transfer terminals such as railway stations Ostrava - Svinov and Ostrava, Main Station. The large capacity carpark is situated just besides the building of assembly hall.

Map of university campus

The city of Ostrava is easily accessible via Leos Janacek Ostrava airport (20 km from Ostrava), John Paul II Cracow International Airport (160 km from Ostrava), Vienna International Airport (300 km from Ostrava) and Vaclav Havel International airport in Prague (380 km from Ostrava). The best way how to get to Ostrava is by railways whether airport as a gate to central Europe you choose. You comfortably get to Ostrava – Svinov or Ostrava – Main Station.

The assembly hall of VSB – Technical University of Ostrava, where symposium ISFR 2017 will be held, is situated in district Ostrava – Poruba nearby Ostrava-Svinov railway station. If the hotel, where you are accommodated, is in the city center, it is more convenient to arrive at Ostrava – Main Station. From the city center, you easily get to university by public transport such as by tram no. 8 or eventually no. 7 and 17.

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Websites of Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Czech Republic with informations about visa and list of countries which visa need.

Lower Vitkovice

The tour will be held on 12th of July from 11:00 a.m (the tour to Lower Vitkovice is parallel with the tour to Auschwitz). The price for the tour is 25 euro. It includes entrance fee, 200 minutes’ tour guided in English language (combined Blast Furnace Tour and Coal Tour), lunch.

Lower Vítkovice (Dolní oblast Vítkovice) is a national site of industrial heritage located near city centre of Ostrava. It includes an extensive industrial area Vítkovice ironworks with a unique collection of industrial architecture. It is a set of three successive parts - coal mine, coke ovens and blast furnace operations which has become a symbol of Ostrava called Ostrava Hradčany, after Hradčany, the Castle District of Prague. It was transformed into an industrial museum offering adventurous tours into industrial processes such as pig iron production with a 30-minute adrenaline experience at the top of blast furnace, coal mining and coke making. The museum complex includes Science and Technology center; exhibition halls and a very interesting architectural and technical curiosity, with funny details from the history and construction - Multifunctional Auditorium Gong, which was a gasholder in origin. The area Lower Vitkovice is registered in the list of European cultural heritage, and was placed on the Czech Republic's list of tentative UNESCO World Heritage Sites in 2001 under the name The Industrial Complexes at Ostrava. More information at: http://www.dolnivitkovice.cz/.

Auschwitz, Poland

The tour will be held on 12th of July with initiation time early in the morning (the tour to Auschwitz is parallel with the tour to Lower Vitkovice). As the excursion in the museum starts at 8:00 a.m. in Poland, the departure for this tour from Ostrava is early in the morning at 6:45 a.m. from VSB – Technical University. The price for the tour is 25 euro. It includes transport to the museum in Poland and back to Ostrava, VSB – Technical University, entrance fee, 210 minutes’ tour guided in English language, lunch.

All over the world, Auschwitz has become a symbol of terror, genocide, and the Holocaust. It was established by Germans in 1940, in the suburbs of Oswiecim, a Polish city that was annexed to the Third Reich by the Nazis. From early 1942 until late 1944, transport trains delivered Jews and other people to the camp's gas chambers from all over German-occupied Europe, where they were killed with the pesticide Zyklon B. An estimated 1.3 million people were sent to the camp, of whom at least 1.1 million died. Others deported to Auschwitz included 150,000 Poles, 23,000 Romani and Sinti, 15,000 Soviet prisoners of war, 400 Jehovah's Witnesses, and tens of thousands of others of diverse nationalities, including an unknown number of homosexuals. Many of those not killed in the gas chambers died of starvation, forced labor, infectious diseases, individual executions, and medical experiments. More information at: http://auschwitz.org/en/.

Prague, Czech Republic

Before you leave the Czech Republic, the organization team recommends to visit the capital - Prague.

Prague is the capital and largest city of the Czech Republic situated in the north-west of the country on the Vltava river. Prague is classified as an "Alpha-" global city according to GaWC studies. Prague ranked sixth in the Tripadvisor world list of best destinations in 2016. Its rich history makes it to be a popular tourist destination, and the city receives more than 6.4 million international visitors annually. Prague is the fifth most visited European city after London, Paris, Istanbul and Rome. Since 1992, the extensive historic centre of Prague has been included in the UNESCO list of World Heritage Sites. More information at: http://www.prague.eu/en.

From Ostrava to Prague there is a comfortable train connection ensured by 72 trains every day. The journey takes around 3,5 hours and the ticket costs from 8 – 13 euro. For capacity reasons, we recommend to book your ticket in advance directly on web sites of railway companies: České dráhy, REGIOJET, LEO Express.