Portuguese colonial exhibition
_(9292392180).jpg) | |
| Overview | |
|---|---|
| BIE-class | Unrecognized exposition |
| Visitors | 1.5 million |
| Organized by | Henrique Galvão |
| Location | |
| Country | Portugal |
| City | Porto |
| Coordinates | 41°08′48.76″N 8°37′33.56″W / 41.1468778°N 8.6259889°W |
| Timeline | |
| Opening | 16 June 1934 |
| Closure | 30 September 1934 |
The Portuguese colonial exhibition was a world's fair[1] held in Porto, Portugal in 1934 to display achievements of Portugal's colonies in Africa and Asia.[2]
Portugal's director of 'Colonial Show Fairs' Henrique Galvão who had represented Portugal at the Paris Colonial Exposition in 1931 was made the technical director for this exhibition.[2]
It was decided to re-use the Palácio de Cristal which had been constructed for an earlier exhibition in Porto.[3]
Exhibits came from Portugal itself (Braga, Chaves, Leixões, Matosinhos and Porto), Angola, Cape Verde, Guinea (Guinea-Bissau), India, Macao[4] (including a reproduction of the Guia lighthouse),[3] Mozambique, São Tomé and Príncipe, and Timor (Portuguese Timor).[4]
There were reproductions of villages from different colonies[2] and of the Padrãos of Dighton and Yellala,[3] along with a zoo, restaurants[2] a theatre, a cinema which showed 'The Dawn Patrol and an amusement park.[3]
It ran from 16[5] June to 30 September[6]and by the time it had closed there had been 1.5 million visitors.[7]
References
- ^ Findling, John E.; Pelle, Kimberley D. (eds.). "Appendix D: Fairs Not Included". Encyclopedia of World's Fairs and Expositions. Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Company, Inc. p. 427. ISBN 978-0-7864-3416-9.
- ^ a b c d "Efemérides | I Exposição Colonial Portuguesa, 1934" (in Portuguese). Retrieved 2 November 2017.
- ^ a b c d "do Porto e não só...: O Porto dos anos 30–A Exposição Colonial 1934" (in Portuguese). Retrieved 30 November 2017.
- ^ a b Álbum-catálogo oficial da Exposição.
- ^ "Portugal > History and Events > Date Table > Second Republic". Retrieved 2 November 2017.
- ^ "Efemérides | I Exposição Colonial Portuguesa, 1934" (PDF) (in Portuguese). Retrieved 30 November 2017.
- ^ Medeiros, Antonio. "Imperialist Ideology and Representations of the Portuguese Proivinces during the early Estado Novo". Recasting Culture and Space in Iberian Contexts.
External links
'Portugal is Not a Small Country' map used to show how big Portuguese colonies were
