Florence 2010: 
Caldwell Travel, SIRS' preferred travel provider, is offering SIRS Conference attendees a 10% discount off of most Lufthansa fares, including business class. These discounts apply for travel to Florence, Pisa or Rome. In addition, Caldwell Travel can also offer 5% off of all fares on American Airlines to Rome and American's Oneworld partners to Florence via European gateways. Trains are available from Leonardo daVinci airport in Rome to the Termini train station in Rome. From there, express trains reach Florence in 1 hour and 40 minutes. For those landing at "Galileo Galilei" Pisa airport, direct shuttle trains or buses to "Santa Maria Novella" railway station in Florence are available with an average travel time of 60 minutes. Ask Caldwell Travel about special business class fares for SIRS participants, as well as pre- or post-conference packages in Pisa or Rome, or anywhere else throughout Europe. Introduction To Florence: Florence is one of the most beautiful and ancient cities in Italy and the world. It gave to birth many of the men who have profoundly influenced the course of human history in every field of knowledge, art, literature and philosophy. Most of the world's artistic patrimony is believed to be here, in Florence. Florentia, the city of flowers was the place where the Renaissance grew and anticipated Enlightenment and thus Modernity as a whole. | 
