Expo Dubai. Portugal Pavilion reaches 200 thousand visitors
“ANwe dye [na terça-feira] like 200,000 visitors to the Portugal Pavilion,” said the same source, adding that the 200,000 visitor is called Saeed and came from Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates.
“So far, the day on which we had the most visits was December 2nd”, the day of the commemoration of the golden jubilee (50th anniversary) of the United Arab Emirates, “reaching almost 10,000 visits”, added an official source.
The Portugal Pavilion, which is located in the sustainability district of Expo 2020 Dubai, has an area of 1,800 square meters and two floors, where there is no lack of Portuguese pavement, tiles by Widow Lamego, cork chairs and lamps and even olive trees.
Expo 2020 is the first world exhibition held in the Middle East, Africa and South Asia (MEASA) region, in the year of the golden jubilee of the United Arab Emirates.
Located in the south of Dubai, the site covers 4.38 square kilometers, of which about two square kilometers are closed.
The “heart” of the Expo is the Al Wasl square (which means connection), which has a dome 130 meters wide and 67.5 meters high, covering a space of 724,000 cubic meters, according to the organization. This corresponds to the volume of nearly 300 Olympic swimming pools – and is taller than the Tower of Pisa.
The project has 13.6 kilometers of steel, equivalent to the height of 16 Burj Khalifas (the tallest tower in the world, at 828 meters, located in Dubai), weighs 2,544 tons, the same as 25 blue whales, and is almost as wide as two Airbus A380 aircraft wing to wing.
The three thematic areas of Expo 2020, opportunity, mobility and sustainability, present themselves in the form of petals, like which converge in Al Wasl square.
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