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The reopening of the Pavilion of Portugal to the public will be marked by the first  Concertos à Pala, with a performance by the artist Milhanas, on 30 April at 9 p.m. The concert marks the start of a regular programme of free concerts aimed at supporting and giving visibility to new talents in national music, which will take place under the emblematic concrete canopy that covers the building's Ceremonial Square. 

On the following day, 1 May, the doors of the new Pavilion of Portugal Exhibition Centre open to the public with the exhibition ‘Meu matalote e amigo Luís de Camões’, from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m., portraying a contemporary evocation of the poet Luís de Camões through a visual and literary journey that combines art, literature and heritage. The exhibition follows the major narrative axes of Os Lusíadas, crossing them with Camões’ lyric poems, and proposes an innovative dialogue between the poet's text and the visual arts.

The exhibition includes sculptures by Simões de Almeida and Canto da Maya, paintings by José Malhoa, Columbano, Veloso Salgado, Cristóvão de Morais, Lourdes Castro, Géricault and James Ward inspired by Ticiano, and works by artists such as Domingos António de Sequeira, Luca Cambiaso and Abraham Bloemaert. Contemporary photography is represented by names such as Candida Höfer, Thomas Ruff, Jorge Molder, Hiroshi Sugimoto and Luís Pavão.

The works were provided by prestigious institutions such as the National Museum of Ancient Art, the National Museum of Archaeology, the Calouste Gulbenkian Museum, the Academy of Sciences of Lisbon, the Ajuda National Palace, the Soares dos Reis National Museum, the Grão Vasco National Museum, the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation's Centro de Arte Moderna [Modern Art Centre], the novobanco Photography Collection and by some private collectors.

Designed by  Álvaro Siza Vieira, awarded the Pritzker Prize for Architecture and an Honoris Causa by ULisboa, the Pavilion of Portugal was originally conceived for Expo'98 and is today a symbol of Portuguese modernism. The now completed refurbishment was carefully monitored by the architect's studio, fully respecting the vision and integrity of the original project. From now on, this will be a new multidisciplinary space featuring an Exhibition Centre and a Congress Centre capable of hosting a variety of cultural, scientific and corporate events, among others, taking advantage of its unique characteristics, its privileged location in the city and its close connection to the University of Lisbon. Also in May, the Pavilion of Portugal's programme includes two other significant moments: its integration into the next   edition, a programme of the Lisbon Architecture Triennale, which on May 10 and 11 will allow the public to visit the interior of the Pavilion of Portugal free of charge. On the same day as the anniversary of the opening of Expo'98, 22 May, the new 24-hour ���Ǵ��� Room for all the city's students, the Mega Ferreira Library and the Centro Interpretativo do Parque das Nações [Parque das Nações Interpretive Centre] will be inaugurated in the building's Torreão, in a partnership between the University of Lisbon, Lisbon City Council and the Parque das Nações Parish Council.