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Date / Location / Opening hours>>
The IP Voice Meeting takes place from:
>>Tuesday 05-04-2005 >>09h00 | 17h00 >>Workshop
>>Wednesday 06-.04-2005 >> 09h00 | 18h.00 >>Conference
>>Thursday 07-04-2005 >> 09h.00 | 18h00 >>Conference

The Centro Cultural de Belém is one of Portugal's most symbolic institutions and plays a major role in national cultural life.

Situated in an area immersed in history and endowed with numerous tourist facilities, the CENTRO CULTURAL DE BELÉM is housed in a building whose architecture is internationally renowned.

It is in the immediate vicinity of a number of leisure centres, monuments and museums and affords the only facilities in Lisbon capable of serving a dual purpose: providing its customers with prestigious commercial amenities alongside rich cultural resources.
Its convention centre played host to the Portuguese Presidency of the European Community in 1992 and is endowed with a range of structures, which, alongside the other facilities it has to offer, make it one of the most sought after locations in Lisbon for hosting international congresses and meetings as well as seminars, conferences and workshops and product presentations. Its largest setting, the GREAT AUDITORIUM, seats 1500 and is 1700 m2 in area.
The Centre also houses two foyers measuring 350 m2 and 450 m2 in area, respectively. The SMALLER AUDITORIUM seats 500 and is endowed with 8 support rooms of various sizes.

The Convention Centre also boats a further seven rooms which provide customers with a wide range of high-quality services and assure technical conditions - in terms of audiovisual aids, telecommunications, simultaneous translations etc. - security, restaurants, parking and other services.
In addition to the above amenities the Centre also functions as a leisure centre and has a wide variety of restaurants and bars at its disposal incorporated within a series of gardens and terraces overlooking the river Tagus. Bookshops, Art Galeries, photo- and audiovisual stores, wine-shop and gift-shops combine with the Centre's shows and exhibitions to afford the perfect setting for those wishing to while away their free time.

Over the last four years the CENTRO CULTURAL DE BELÉM has been the preferred location for events organised by some of the most known domsteic and international brands as well as for conventions coordinated by major State and private institutions. Owing to the high quality and prestigious nature of its amenities it was the preferred location for welcoming Heads of State and Governments from across the globe at the European Organisation for Security and Cooperation (OSCE) Summit held in Lisbon in 1996.