Best Meetings & Conference Centre Europe
Business Destinations Travel Award 2014,2015 & 2017
Best Meetings & Conference Centre Europe
Business Destinations Travel Award 2014,2015 & 2017
Located in the historic city centre of Porto, by the Douro River
Historic building, recovered by Arch. Souto Moura
36 000 m² of flexible area
22 multifunctional spaces
400 parking spaces
Wi-Fi total coverage
Rooms with built-in translation booths
Access for disabled people
Shipping dock
Congresses up to 3000 pax
Banquets up to 1700 pax
Exhibitions up to 10 000 m²
Concerts up to 1200 pax
Cultural environment
Existence of cultural and museological areas inside the building (Museum of Transport and Communications)
1992 –The Association for the Museum of Transports and Communications on the 21st of February. The institution promotes permanent exhibitions related with this theme and opens its doors to other activities, such as many types of events through the creation of a Congress Centre, in the same building. The renovation of the building by the Architect Souto Moura started on this date.
1993 – After signing a protocol with the State, on the 26th of March, the Association began to manage the fate and conversion of the building.
1998 – The amplitude of the building, with its wide rooms full of light provides unique versatility and multi-functionalism for the realization of many events. The recovery enabled the rooms with security, acoustics and communication equipment. All of these characteristics, its location and architectural singularities made the building the chosen location for the VIII Ibero-American Summit (October 1998), that brought to Portugal the Presidents and Prime Ministers of the Latin American countries. This was the beginning of an era of realization of events in the magnificent venue.
1999 – The contract of the Porto Customs House was signed by the Minister of Finance on the 18th of October, as the headquarters of the Museum for Transports and Communications.