Tuesday, May 19, 2015

Tightrope walking and children camped in the 85th edition of the Fair of … – Daily News – Lisbon

“This year has begun to overcome the other years,” he stated John Alvim, President of the Portuguese Association of Publishers and Booksellers (APEL), the presentation of the 85th edition of the Book daFeira Lisbon. The stalls are already standing along the Eduardo VII Park, where from May 28 to June 14, 123 and 271 pavilions participating entities based camps. “We have not talked with the Holy Antoninho, but we are waiting for the sun, rain, wind” still would play Alvim. And indeed, those who usually attend the fair know it surrounded by all these weather variations.

2015 numbers represent a record, says Bruno Pacheco, secretary general of the APEL, which is rising about 10% compared to 2014 in which the fair passed around 532 thousand visitors. We speak, therefore, of the event that Pacheco considers “the greatest cultural event of the city.”

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