Belém Cultural Center
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The Belém Cultural Center (CCB - Centro Cultural de Belém), located in the Belém quarter of Lisbon, is the largest building with cultural facilities in Portugal. CCB includes very complex areas such as an auditorium for opera, ballet, symphony concerts and congresses, high security meeting halls, and a 7,000 m² exhibition area. Also available in CCB is the Jacques Delors European Information Center.
The Belém Cultural Center has 140,000 m² of construction area and was prepared in a very short period (1989-1992). The client of the project was the Portuguese State through the Secretaria de Estado da Cultura (State Agency for Culture). Completed in 1992, it occupies a total of 100,000 m² and is the work of architects Vitorino Gregothi and Manuel Salgado; the interior was planned by Daciano Costa.
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[edit] Areas
With highly sophisticated equipment and a wide variety of installed services, it has several areas with different roles:
- The Conference Area provides a close link with the most varied business and professional sectors
- The Entertainment Area is equipped with two Auditoriums and a Rehearsal Room with 72 places
- The Exhibition Area has ample spaces and galleries for exhibition of plastic arts, architecture, photography, and design
- The Educational Area provides a close link between the Foundation and schools of various levels as well as other institutions
- The Formation Area is a service of the Foundation of the Belém Cultural Center; courses, seminars and Conferences are directed towards formation in professionalism and aim at modernisation, acquisition of further knowledge skills and specialisation in the different areas of the arts, and culture
[edit] Trivia
- The CCB has already hosted important events like the summit meeting of the Heads of State of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE)
- It won the International Stone Architecture Award at the Verona Fair in 1993.
