Selecting a good venue for our workshop in a city like Milan is not a easy job. Our target was to find a capacious place, easy to reach by public transport, sited in the City and with a good selection of accommodation within short walking distance from the workshop site. The building we have chosen meets all our conditions and we hope all attendant people will appreciate it.

Venue of the workshop will be Palazzo Mezzanotte, the former headquarters of the Italian Stock Exchange since 1932. Until the end of 1980 the building housed the trading floor with the pits where the brokers used to trade stocks by open outcry.  In the early 1990 however, the Italian Exchange Market underwent a radical change as the whole trading process became electronic.

That meant the end of the traditional open outcry method of trading.    At the end of the XX century Palazzo Mezzanotte underwent renovation and the area where open outcry trading took once place was transformed into the new Congress Centre.   The main room, where ISSVA workshop will take place, has a capacity of 440 seats.   Two balconies offer good space for scientific exhibition  and lunch.

Palazzo Mezzanotte is sited in the very centre of  the historical city: the Duomo, Galleria, Scala Theatre and Sforza Castle are all within short walking distance.   The underground station (Cordusio) is just 50 meters from Palazzo Mezzanotte.

 Palazzo Mezzanotte