The PLDC team of organizers is proud to present this year’s venue!

PLDC 2011 will be held in the Círculo de Bellas Artes (CBA) in Madrid, Spain.
The CBA is one of the most important private cultural centres in Europe, located in the heart of Madrid in the cultural triangle made up of the Prado Museum, the Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum and the Art Centre.
The building offers sufficient space for the expected 1300 attendees, and areas for break-out sessions and of course the partnering manufacturers’ exhibition!
The building was designed by architect Antonio Palacios and constructed in 1926. It is an emblematic building and from its rooftop you can enjoy one of the best views of Spain’s capital city.

CBA history
It was founded in 1888 by a group of artists, and over the years some illustrious names have passed through its doors, such as the Nobel Prize-winning dramatist Jacinto Benavente and the dramatist, poet and novelist Ramón José Simón Valle Peña.

Picasso also attended painting classes there, and one of the exhibition rooms is named after him. In 1921 the Círculo de Bellas Artes was declared a centre for the Protection of Fine Arts and is a venue for conferences, workshops, and multi-disciplinary programmes of study.

Exhibitions of drawings, paintings, sculpture, etchings, photography, ceramics and digital art take place in its four exhibition halls: Picasso, Minerva, Goya and Juana Mordó.

Círculo de Bellas Artes
C/ Alcalá 42
28014 Madrid

Rated distances to CBA
Puerta del Sol: 5 minutes walking distance
Museo del Prado: 5 minutes walking distance
IFEMA Exhibition Site: 30 minutes walking distance
Airport: 30-minute car drive

Underground stations close to CBA
Sevilla: Line 2
Banco España: Line 2
Gran Vìa: Line 1 or 5
Puerta del Sol: Line 1, 2 or 3

Bus transport
The following buses stop at Alcalá – Cedaceros:
5 – 9 – 15 – 20 – 51 – 52 – 53 – 150 – L1 – L5 – N16 – N17

The following buses stop at Alcalá – Barquillo: 
1 – 2 – 74 – 146 – 202 – L2 – NC2

The following buses stop at Alcalá – Circulo de Bellas Artes:
5 – 9 – 51 – 52 – 53 – 146 – 150