The 2011 Annual Meetings of the Boards of Governors of the African Development Bank Group, (46th Annual Meeting of the Board of Governors of the African Development Bank and the 37th Annual Meeting of the Board of Governors of the African Development Fund), will hold in Lisbon, Portugal, at the Lisbon Congress Centre (LCC), from 09 to 10 June 2011.
They will be preceded by technical meetings, the AfDB-EMRC SME Forum and B2B individual meetings and include the Market Place, a show of products and services. The opening ceremony will take place at the Lisbon Congress Centre (LCC), at 9.30 a.m. on 09 June 2011.
Conference Venue
Located near the Tagus River close to the historic buildings of Belém District, the Lisbon Congress Centre is a welcoming space for anyone wishing to hold congresses, conferences, meetings, exhibitions and other events.
Three large entrance halls allow the holding of different kind of events simultaneously with maximum comfort and efficiency. The venue is served with up-to-date audio-visual and IT equipments. Wi-Fi is also available.
Praça das Indústrias
1300- 307 Lisbon - Portugal
Tel + 351 213 601 400/1
Fax + 351 213 639 450
E-mail: lisboacc@aip.pt
1300- 307 Lisbon - Portugal
Tel + 351 213 601 400/1
Fax + 351 213 639 450
E-mail: lisboacc@aip.pt
One night, visitors should go out to Alfama and eat grilled sardines and drink red wine, it’s the season.
ResponderEliminarThe 10th of June is the Portuguese national holiday, and that’s how we celebrate it.
Sardines have lots of omega 3 oils, they are smelly but cheerful, and we need all the cheering we can get nowadays
If you are unmarried, stay until 13-June, and maybe Saint Anthony (of Padua but born in Lisbon) will help you in the romance department, he’s the patron saint of lost things.
For those who have a little extra time, here’s a list of some of the favorite tourist sites:
Torre de Belém (where the king watched the ships sail off, west side of Lisbon)
Jeronimos monastery (cloisters, and Manueline architecture, pastry shop and Presidential palace nearby)
Downtown Lisbon, and surrounding hills, walking around Alfama on east side, and Bairro Alto on west side, take the tram 28 (electrico) from one hill to another
Sé Patricarcal, the nearly 1000 year old cathedral, and Palacio Penafiel, the Transport Ministry which was the old post service headquarters and is facing a little pink plaza with Jacaranda trees which should be in full purple bloom.
Casa dos Bicos near the Finance Ministry, was the first spice bourse exchange
Museu do Azulejo, tile museum, on the east side of the city, a must see
Museu do Oriente, the Portuguese got there first (almost)
Sintra (1 day trip), take the early morning train, then take the bus up to Palacio da Pena, a little jewel built by Queen Mary’s consort Fernando de Saxe Coburgo-Gotha, then walk down through the forest to enjoy the town of Sintra itself
Portugal is having parliamentary elections on Sunday, 5-June, so everyone will be discussing who will form the next Portuguese government, and whether it will be able to implement the 50-plus measures that the troika (IMF-EU-ECB) has defined in a rather innovative balance-of-payments adjustment program.
Without the usual IMF recipe (devaluation, tariffs, interest rates) we are moving into uncharted policy territory, without a sextant, so you are welcome to participate in a huge modern economic policy experiment and do your part by boosting our tourist revenues.
To read more see http://theportugueseeconomy.blogspot.com/2011/05/portugals-bailout-reinventing-wheel.html