"Traveling. Travelers and Tourists to Portugal at the time of discovery of the First Republic"

Thursday, 05 August 2010 17:48

The year 1911 represents a key moment in the emergence of organized tourism in Portugal. That year, California hosted the IV International Congress on Tourism leading to the first Bureau of Tourism and the Tourism Council.

The promotion of tourism done in this period emphasizing the educational mission and physical well-being of this travel, as we can see  in the guidebooks, brochures and posters that first promoted Portugal . Traveling for pleasure  to see new  places and people had become more desirable to more people.

This exhibition is a double invitation to travel: and to travel in time and space. Reliving "the vacation of the first tourists, the history of fashion, clothes and articles that are put in the suitcase, sports that were practiced, the tours that are consulted ­ all presented by the National Commission for the Commemoration Centennial of the Republic and Turismo de Portugal.

The exhibition, which runs  to October 6 in the east tower of Lisbon¹s Terreiro do Paço, is organized into five sections:

1. Turistas - The pleasure and the art of travel,

2. The Republic and Tourism

3. Tourism and national identity: a new image for Portugal

4. The tourist places and projects of the Republic,

5. Vacations in Portugal.