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Telephone booths
At a time when mobile phones were cumbersome, heavy and expensive, the company then called Portugal Telecom placed around 3,700 public telephones within...
Staying overnight at Expo
What was then the hotel Meliá Confort Oriente – today the Meliá Lisboa Oriente hotel –was the only hotel located in the vicinity of the Exposition....
Dress rehearsal
Tickets to the dress rehearsal were distributed chiefly to inhabitants of the neighbourhoods surrounding the construction site at Chelas, as a way of...
STATISTICS
Expo ’98 in numbers is impressive and compelling. From the visitors to the countries represented, from the media coverage to the visits by State representatives,...