• All participants, speakers, and accompanying persons are kindly requested to wear their ICTON 2025 badge also at social events
• All activities are included in the registration fees

16:00 – 18:00 : Opening of the Registration desk. In order to allow a gradually arrival of ICTON attendees, the Registration desk will open up on 16:00 and then, during the Welcome Reception, will be kept opened too. For those arriving before the Welcome Reception, from 16:00 to 18:00 there will be coffee, tea, fruit juices and assortment of pastries available.

18:00 – 20:00 : Welcome Reception: Snack and cup of cava served at Garden of the UPC Auditorium.

Location: UPC Auditorium

19:00 – 22:00 : Guided Tour in groups to the Barcelona ruins placed in BORN Cultural Centre. The archaeological campaigns carried out in the enclosure of the old market of El Born have made it possible to study in detail a fragment of the city’s urban fabric and to uncover signs of how people lived there early in the 18th century. So, the current “Barcelona 1700” exhibition, placed in El Born Cultural Center, aims to transport visitors into the society of the city at that time.

19:00 – 22:00 : In parallel to the guided tour, a catering dinner will be served at BORN main hall.

22:00 : End of the event: Exhibition of human tours by “Castelles de Barcelona“. The “Castellers de Barcelona” were founded in 1969 by a group of enthusiasts of this Catalan tradition. With their effort and devotion they managed to turn such a group into what it is now: A reference within the Catalan popular culture. Wearing their red shirt, they are always ready to carry out constructions which combine strength, balance, courage and wisdom.

Location: BORN Cultural Centre and Memory

19:30 – 21:00 : Very special event to commemorate ICTON 25th anniversary: Jazz concert of the prestigious piano player Ignasi Terraza and his UNUSUAL TRIO (a trio to enjoy a high-flying jazz session. Have no doubt!). The Barcelona pianist, one of the most internationally recognised European jazzmen, combines his extraordinary technique, exquisite sensitivity and the swing he treasures, with another jazz major: Adrian Cunningham, saxophonist born in Australia, who currently lives in New York. The third vertex is the drummer Esteve Pi, a regular in the Ignasi Terraza groups. And no, we have not forgotten to announce the double bass player. It is precisely the absence of this instrument what Ignasi Terraza intends to explore with Andrian Cunningham and Esteve Pi.

21:00 – 22:30 : Catering dinner served at the restaurant terrace of the Theatre where the concert will take place.

Location: Auditori de la ONCE (Theatre of the blind Spanish organisation)

19:00 sharp : Departing of the buses to the restaurant. Meeting point: In front of UPC Auditorium

20:00 – 23:00 : Gala dinner at Restaurant Can Travi Nou. Can Travi Nou Restaurant is located in a 17th century farmhouse, on the old Sant Cebrià road, today Jorge Manrique street, in Barcelona. At the beginning of the 1920s, after many years dedicated to agriculture and livestock, its owners transformed it into a manor-tower, decorating it with exquisite taste and respecting the structure of the typical traditional farmhouse. After 30 years, this farmhouse converted into a restaurant has become a gastronomic reference must-see in the city, which offers lovers of traditional/Mediterranean cuisine an emblematic, rustic and cosy corner within the same urban area of ​​the city of Barcelona where enjoy delicious food in contact with nature.

The Dinner will be entertained by Sabine van Waesberghe (singer woman-orchestra)

Location: Can Travi Nou