The Conference Welcome Reception will be held in the impressive Pazo de Fonseca. Delegates at the EcoSTP Conference will be invited to attend the Welcome Reception which will take place on the eve of the Conference, 25th June 2012, from 19.15 to 20.00 and will be the first of many opportunities for participants to meet fellow conference attendees and speakers and enjoy the atmosphere of the Old City of Santiago de Compostela.

Pazo de Fonseca, one of the first Colleges of Compostela University, started out in 1544. Construction was ordered by Archbishop Alonso de Fonseca III, it was designed by the architect Juan de Álava and built by Alonso de Covarruvias. The patio is the work of Gil de Hontañón. Made from granite masonry, the facade is Plateresque in style with some Ogival elements. It is divided in two sections with Gothic statues between the columns and in the niches of the frieze. Those on the lower section show St. James and the Virgin Mary. In the centre, a coat of arms with the five stars of the Fonseca family. Through the doorway, there is the Gothic chapel and the Coffered Hall, old college refectory, where Galicia's first autonomous government was provisionally installed.