UNIVERSAL EXHIBITION, THE HISTORY OF THE EXPO

With universal exposition means a great exhibition, which historically has its beginning in the mid-800.

According to the latest rules defined by the BIE, Bureau International des Expositions, a World's Fair is that it has a general theme, the pavilions are built by the participants, has a term of six months and returns after a period of 5 years.

The first exposure was the Universal Exhibition in London. Was organized in 1851 at the Crystal Palace in Hyde Park.

The exhibition structures of a Universal Exposition are normally and for most temporary, and are dismantled at the end event. The main structures that are usually reused and converted.

Some installations have been retained and become true symbols citizen or national. For example, the Milan exhibition of 1906 remained, still active, the Civic Aquarium; Paris remained the Eiffel Tower in 1889; in Genoa in 1992 remained the aquarium, recovered the Old Port with cotton warehouses and installed the Grande Bigo panoramic lift still in operation.

In Rome for the universal exhibition planned for 1942 was made an entire quarter the US, known for his rationalist architecture.

source: wikipedia

UNIVERSAL EXHIBITION, THE HISTORY OF THE EXPO

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