La Rioja

If you are still hesitating between participating in our conference and not it is because you still do not know La Rioja: what are you waiting for?
In order to persuade you, we will not fall into clichés like our good wine, our excellent gastronomy, or the kindness and naturalness of our people -though we could do it, certainly-.

We want you to take the opportunity to spend three days working among colleagues, but also to enjoy the region where the Spanish language and Quintiliano were born, and to visit the land where the great poet Gonzalo de Berceo wrote his lines.

The Spanish language constitutes an essential part of our culture: a proof of this are the linguistic studies carried out in our University, together with the national and international projects promoted by the Foundation of "San Millán de la Cogolla". Very soon this International Centre for the Research of the Spanish Language (Centro Internacional de Investigación de la Lengua Española) will become the indispensable point of reference for the study, dissemination and conservation" of this common inheritance that units and identifies so many Spanish-speaking citizens who are spread all over the world.

Recommended links:
· Government of La Rioja
· University
· 'La Rioja' newspaper

LOGROÑO

Our city has all the services of big cities, but the closeness, both physical and personal, of small urban places. This grants it with an additional attractiveness, which is quickly grasped by the visitor.

Placed in the right margin of the Ebro river, it was born due to the pilgrim's road to Santiago de Compostela. Thus, if we come into the city crossing the Stone Bridge (Puente de Piedra) we can enjoy its history by wandering through its oldest district, to end up in the center of the town.

We cannot miss the scroll through Portales street -which was so magnificently immortalized in Bardem's film "Calle Mayor" (1963)-. Another must is Laurel Street, were one can have good wine and excellent tapas. Finally, do not leave Logroño without droping to see Espartero's statue, situated in the central plaza of Espolón.

And, just as an anecdote, note that the sign of identity of our city Hall is the tilde of the ñ character; very fresh and, above all, very linguistic, isn't it?

Recommended links:
· Logroño City Hall
· Logroño Tourism
· Bretón Theatre

UNIVERSITY OF LA RIOJA

Young, as our association, the UR has linguistics in its veins: if we look at the emblem of the institution, we can see that it is made up of two characters belonging to the 46th code of San Millán de la Cogolla -called "emilianense"-; to them, we have to add the representation of pilgrim's road to Santiago and of the Oja river -to which we owe the name of our community: Rio-Oja-.

The conference will be held, as can be expected, in the Phylology Building. The papers will be presented in the following rooms:
· Multiple usages room
· Assembly Hall
· Lecture room
· Seminar room
· Languages laboratory
· Other teaching classrooms

Besides, conference speakers and attendants will be allowed to use the two computer rooms available, were there is internet access and printing press service available.

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