VISA

To those participants requiring visas to enter in Spain we recommend to initiate the application process as early as possible in order to ensure the attendance to the meeting.

Foreign participants are urged to contact the Spanish Consulate in their home countries to determine their particular visa requirements.

Click here to get the address of the Spanish consulate or embassy in your home country.

Participants who need a personal invitation letter for visa procedure should contact the Organizing Committee (E-mail to: iwncs_2006@uniovi.es. Subject: Invitation letter). Please, provide us your complete mailing list in order to send an original version of the letter via air mail.


  The arrow indicates the relative position of Asturias´s airport and Gijón.  

TRAVEL

1. REACHING GIJON BY PLANE.

For reaching Gijón city directly by plane visitors must arrive to Asturias´s airport (Ranón), located in Castrillón, north coast of Spain (40 kilometers about to Gijón).

You can fly directly to Asturias´s airport from:

London (Stansted), UK EasyJet Airline;
Paris (Orly), France. Airnostrum;
Brussels. Belgium. Airnostrum;
Madrid. Iberia, Spanair, and Airnostrum;
Barcelona. Iberia, Spanair, and Airnostrum;
Alicante. Airnostrum;
Valencia. Airnostrum;
Málaga. Airnostrum;
Sevilla. Airnostrum;
Canary Islands. Lanzarote:  Aireuropa and Spanair. Tenerife (Sur):  Aireuropa;
Balearic Islands. Ibiza:  Spanair. Palma de Mallorca: Spanair and Airnostrum.

Partnership. Iberia-one-world-alliance. Aireuropa partners.

Click and see the bus service timetable  from the airport to Gijón and Oviedo cities (cost: ~ 6.00 €). The cost of a taxi to Gijón is nearly 40.00 €. 

 2. REACHING GIJON BY LAND.

By bus: ALSA buses.

By Train: RENFE (spanish railroads Co.), english, spanish.

3. LOCAL TRANSPORTATION IN GIJON.

Radio Taxi service. Phone: 985 141 111.
Radio Taxi Villa de Jovellanos service. Phone: 985 164 444.