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)
1987 – After more than 100 years of customs service, the Customs House sees it´s services moved. With the evolution of the means of communication, many services located in the city centre were moved to the outskirts of the city as a way of easier access and proximity to the airport and shipping port (Leixões). The same happened to the customs service that gradually moved to the TIR terminal, Porto de Leixões and airport.
However, the sequence of movements of cultural means of the city led to a solution of the Counsil of Ministers on the 27th March 1987, that decided that the building should become a Museum of Transports. Therefore, an installing commission was installed.