Portuguese colonial exhibition


The Portuguese colonial exhibition was a world's fair held in Porto, Portugal in 1934 to display achievements of Portugal's colonies in Africa and Asia.
Portugal's director of 'Colonial Show Fairs' Henrique Galvão who had represented Portugal at the Paris Colonial Exposition in 1931 was made the technical director for this exhibition.
It was decided to re-use the Palácio de Cristal which had been constructed for an earlier exhibition in Porto.
Exhibits came from Portugal itself, Angola, Cape Verde, Guinea, India, Macao , Mozambique, São Tomé and Príncipe, and Timor.
There were reproductions of villages from different colonies and of the Padrãos of Dighton and Yellala, along with a zoo, restaurants a theatre, a cinema which showed 'The Dawn Patrol and an amusement park.
It ran from 16 June to 30 Septemberand by the time it had closed there had been 1.5 million visitors.