The Portuguese World Exhibition ( Portuguese : Exposição do Mundo Português ) was held in Lisbon in 1940 to mark 800 years since the foundation of the country and 300 years since the restoration of independence from Spain.
7-489: The fair ran from 23 June to 2 December 1940, held on the Praça do Império , and was attended by 3 million people. Augusto de Castro was the commissioner general, Júlio Dantas president of committee, Cottinelli Telmo [ pt ] the master architect, António Ferro (director), and lead engineer Duarte Pacheco. The exhibition was opened by President Carmona , with Oliveira Salazar also in attendance. The fair
14-499: A barge. Pra%C3%A7a do Imp%C3%A9rio The Praça do Império ( Empire Square ) is a city square and park situated adjacent to principal monuments and tourist attractions in the civil parish of Belém , municipality and Portuguese capital of Lisbon . Between 23 June and 2 December 1940, Lisbon realized the Exposição do Mundo Português ( Portuguese World Exposition ), that included an urbanization plan that encompassed
21-560: A reading room with 5000 works. It had an art section including paintings by Lucílio de Albuquerque , Arthur Timótheo da Costa , Oscar Pereira da Silva and Candido Portinari . Nau Portugal was a galleon replica, built by the Mónicas's Family Shipyard, it was exhibited near the Maritime Discoveries Pavilion. It suffered irreparable damage in the cyclone of 1941. After that, it was dismantled and transformed into
28-471: The area of Belém, that included the Praça do Império . The sculptures of the seahorses, that dominate the site, were completed by sculptor António Duarte were installed in 1940. A project to construct the Palácio do Ultramar ( Overseas Palace ) was initiated in 1952, situated on the eastern edge of the park, authored by architects Cristino da Silva and Jacques Carlu. In 1973, a commemorative monument to
35-620: The poet Augusto Gil (1873-1929) was installed on the site, that included a bronze medallion and inscription by the municipal council of Lisbon. The roads around the square were used as a special stage in the 2011 to 2014 Rally de Portugal . The park is situated to the south of the Monastery of Santa Maria de Belém and west of the Centro Cultural de Belém . The rectangular 175 by 175 metres (574 ft × 574 ft) square consists of successive quadrangles, that structure
42-583: Was divided into three main sections of display: history, ethnography, and the colonial world. A Monument of the Discoveries of Portugal Padrão dos Descobrimentos was designed by Leopoldo de Almeida and Cottinelli Telmo. It was dismantled in 1958 and rebuilt in 1960 to honor the 500th anniversary of the death of Prince Henry the Navigator . A modernist restaurant and beer hall was designed by António Lino with guidance from Cottinelli Telmo. In 2014, it
49-399: Was remodelled to become a nightclub and bar. The pavilion of popular life was designed by Veloso Reis and João Simões and after the exhibition was refurbished and opened as Lisbon's Museum of Popular Art in 1948. The Brazil pavilion, named Independent Brazilian Pavilion , was designed by Raul Lino , with interiors by Roberto Lacombe. Its contents included a large photographic mural and
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