VENUE

Venue

Conference center Elaphusa, Bol, Island of Brač

ECS3 will take place in the Conference centre at Elaphusa Hotel in Bol which is one of the largest ones in central Dalmatia.

The Hotel has five conference halls, the largest hall has a capacity of 800 people and four meeting halls and rooms with a capacity of 10-120 people. The conference halls and meeting rooms are equipped with new and first-class technological equipment managed by the expert staff, which enables the maintenance and organization of conferences, business meetings, social events and other events at the highest level.

Conference hall equipment

Audio equipment and projection screens

Lighting equipment (Dimming of room up to 90%)

Sound system (wireless microphones)

Laser pointers, DVD and CD player, LCD TV

Projectors, Flipchart

Internet

More details about conference centre, which might be important for sponsors and exhibitors can be found in ECS3 Sponsorship booklet.

About Bol at island Brač

Bol is situated on the southern part of the island Brač, and is the oldest town on the coast of Brač. This little town was founded long ago and became an extraordinary tourist oasis because of the wide gravel and sandy beaches which expands over 10 km and the sources of drinking water. It is not possible to avoid the Zlatni rat, certainly the most beautiful beach on the Adriatic sea, whose cape is turning one moment to one side and the other moment to the other side playing a strange game with the wind and the waves.
Above Bol is rising the coronet of Bols hills, the illlyrian fortress Kostilo (660 m) and the Vidova gora (778 m), the highest top of the Adriatic islands. Bol is only 15 km away from the international tourist and sports airport "Brač", and excellent connected with the fast lines to the coast, but also with a ferry- line from Supetar. It fascinates with crystal clear water, wonderful nature and the virgin beauty of the stony island houses the Croatian poet Tin Ujević sung about. This little town has kept its Mediterranean spirit. The narrow, stony little roads and the wide piazzetas are simple and typically mediteranneous noisy. You will open in Bol the doors of history, which are going back to the ancient times. The Roman piscinas testify it and the grave monuments and relief. There are also the old Christian sarcophagus with the engraved crosses, the pre Romanic church of St. Ivan and St. Tudor (11th century.) on which foundations is discovered an late antique group of buildings, the residence of the bishop (12th century), the church Madonna of graces (15th-17th century), the fortified gothic summer palace (end of 15th and beginning of 16th. century), the renaissance and baroque palace with the worthy gallery of contemporary Croatian art 'Branislav Dešković (end of 17th century) and the local church Madonna of Karmel with the motive of an angel with the handkerchief of Veronica (finished at the end of the 18th century). The name Bol (latin vallum, earth wall) is mentioned in the year 1184 because of the council of the island authorities, when the manuscript Povaljske listine originated (the oldest Cyrillic paper wrote with Croatian language). A special importance for the spiritual and cultural life of Bol was the founding of the Dominican community in 1462, and the construction of the monastery in 1475 which keeps today collections of pre historical and ancient maritime archeology, Roman and early Croatian architecture and sculpture, a numismatic collection, and collections of incunabula's and sacral objects. The museum has also a painting Madonna with child and Saints from the Venetian painter Tintoretto from 1563. You can not get acquainted with Brac if you don't push off from its coasts. The nearby Vidova gora is a paradise for adventurers and mountaineers, collectors of mushrooms, sparogas and healing plants. In the Mountain resort 'Vladimir Nazor' you can invigorate yourself with specialities from Brac, and you will maybe hear old Slavic myths like the one of Sevid, the cult of light. Certainly you have to visit the glagolic hermitage Blaca with a monastery from the 16th century, and the Dragons cave (Zmajeva spilja) with interesting reliefs.

About Croatia

Croatia capital and the largest city is Zagreb with the population of over one million. Other major cities are Split, Rijeka, Osijek, Zadar, Pula and Varaždin. The country is divided into 20 counties and the city of Zagreb and covers a total area of 56,594 square kilometres.

is at the same time a Central European, Mediterranean and Balkan country, and owing to both its geographical position and to its turbulent history, it is culturally very diverse. Croats came to the Adriatic Sea fourteen centuries ago. Originally a Slavic people, they founded a new homeland where they met the Illyrians, the Romans and Greek colonists. The tradition and culture of these ancient people left significant traces in the history of our country. For many centuries, Croatia was surrounded and influenced by different cultures – Italian, German, Hungarian, and was partly exposed to Oriental influences through several centuries of Turkish presence in the neighborhood.

Croatia is a country with a high quality of lifestyle, a multitude of cultural and natural resources, as well as attractions, such as camping, boating, wellness and active holidays. The UNESCO has inscribed Croatia on the world heritage list. With nine of its cultural phenomena Croatia has become the country with the most protected non-material heritage in Europe. On the other hand, seven cultural, historical and natural beauties have been included on the UNESCO list of world monumental heritage : the Palace of Dioklecian in Split, the Euphrasius Basilica in Poreč, the Plitvice Lakes, the Romanesque town of Trogir, the Old Town of Dubrovnik, the Šibenik Cathedral and the Starogradsko Polje on the island of Hvar.

Croatia has seven state universities, the oldest and the largest being the University of Zagreb (founded in 1669), as well as numerous public institutes, among which the largest and most important, with its more than 500 scientists, is the Ruđer Bošković Institute, located in Zagreb. Educated people, men of letters and science in the spirit of their times first emerged in the Middle Ages in the Croatian towns along the Adriatic coast, under the influence of Venice and the Italian Renaissance. Of many towns in that age, one stands out in particular – the jewel of the Mediterranean, the city of Dubrovnik, which for many centuries was known as the Republic of Dubrovnik. The poet Marko Marulić of Split was a central figure of the period. His epic poem Judith (Judita), written in Croatian, marks the birth of the Croatian literature. Herman Dalmatin (astronomy, translation of important Arabic texts), active in Spain and France at the beginning of the twelfth century, is considered to be our first scientist. Ivan Česmički-Pannonius (a poet with interest in astronomy and astrology), Pietro Buono (a theoretical alchemist in Trogir), Gjin Gazulli-Gazulus (an astrologist, in Dubrovnik) also contributed to the sciences in the medieval period. In the seventeenth century Croatia gave several great scientists, such as Marin Getaldić (optics, in Dubrovnik), Marko Antun De Dominis (theory of the rainbow, the telescope, in Split) and Faust Vrančić (a famous constructor and engineer, in Šibenik and Padua).

FREEDOM POLICY STATEMENT

Croatian Association of Crystallographers, as the organizer of the ECS3, shall observe the basic policy of non-discrimination and affirms the right and freedom of scientists to associate in international scientific activity without regard to such factors as ethnic origin, religion, citizenship, language, political stance, gender, sex or age, in accordance with the Statutes of the International Council for Science. At this meeting no barriers will exist which would prevent the participation of bona fide scientists.

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