\u201cA meeting place for all people of the world.\u201d<\/p>\n
Jorge Sampaio, then the President of the Republic<\/em><\/p>\n <\/p>\n \u201cWe left behind the black and white nation of dictators. Now it is the image of a different Portugal which is splashed across the covers and headlines of newspapers all over the world.\u201d<\/p>\n C\u00e1ceres Monteiro, a journalist and one of the founders of <\/em>Vis\u00e3o magazine<\/em><\/p>\n <\/p>\n \u201cA way for Portugal to tell the world that its work, as big as its dreams, is always, within itself, the imperial time.\u201d<\/p>\n Eduardo Louren\u00e7o, Portuguese professor, philosopher and thinker <\/em><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Expo\u201998 is a \u201ccelebration of the democratic regime.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cFor many Portuguese, experiencing this exposition is to open an encyclopaedia for the first time.\u201d<\/p>\n Ant\u00f3nio Mega Ferreira, the \u201cfather\u201d of Expo\u201998<\/em><\/p>\n <\/p>\n The Lisbon exposition \u201cis much better than the one in Seville.\u201d<\/p>\n Juan Carlos, then the king of Spain <\/em><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n \u201cYou just have to look around at everything to see the intelligence, work and organisation which were required to transform what used to be a decrepit part of the city into this admirable microcosm of the world.\u201d<\/p>\n Ole Philipson, president of the Bureau International des Exp\u00f3sitions <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" \u201cA meeting place for all people of the world.\u201d Jorge Sampaio, then the President of the Republic \u201cWe left behind the black and white nation...","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":873,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_eb_attr":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1279","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-fun-facts"],"yoast_head":"\n