Genoa Expo '92

1992 Genoa
Overview
BIE-class	Specialized exposition
Name	Christopher Columbus, The Ship and the Sea
Area	6 hectares
Visitors	694,800
Mascot	Gatto Cristoforo
Participant(s)
Countries	54
Location
Country	Italy
City	Genoa
Venue	Porto Antico
Timeline
Opening	15 May 1992
Closure	15 August 1992
Specialized expositions
Previous	Expo 91 in Plovdiv
Next	Taejŏn Expo '93 in Daejon
Universal
Previous	Expo '70 in Osaka
Next	Expo 2000 in Hanover
Simultaneous
Universal	Seville Expo '92
Horticultural (AIPH)	Floriade 1992

L'Esposizione Internazionale Specializzata Genova '92 - Colombo '92 (in English International Exhibition Genoa '92 - Colombo '92) or more informally Expo 1992, was held in Genoa, Italy from 15 May to 15 August 1992. The theme was "Christopher Columbus, The Ship and the Sea", and the Expo was timed to celebrate the 500 years since the discovery of America by the Genoese sailor Christopher Columbus. Because of the theme, the expo was also known as Colombiadi. It was a specialized Exhibition with 54 countries represented. Total visitors were 694,800.^[1] The exposition ran at the same time as the larger and longer duration Seville Expo '92, a Universal Exposition, held in the city from whose port (on the Guadalquivir) Columbus had sailed in 1492. The expo's logo was a "500" number with Genoa's flag; the mascot was a cat dressed like Christopher Columbus called "Gatto Cristoforo"

Exposition

The International Exposition of Genoa '92 was held at the Porto Antico and allowed the entire redesign of the area, designed by the architect Renzo Piano. The aquarium hosted the sea's pavilion and the ship "Italia" hosted the ship's pavilion. Other important places were "Piazza delle Feste", a covered square, the "Magazzini del Cotone" an old port structure that now hosts the conference center, "Porta Siberia" a historical port's fortress and the "Palazzina Millo".

Participants

54 countries attended the event officially (three unofficially) and, initially, it was announced that the Expo reached about 1.7 million visitors, of 3,000,000 provided,^[2] but the count was later revised in only about 800,000 visitors. In the fall of 1992, it was discovered that the actual visitors were less than what was announced at first and that the Ente Colombo, who ran the event, had collected only 13 billion compared to 45 billion planned. Because of the false news circulated and the lack of success of the event, the Mayor Romano Merlo, who was also president of Colombo, resigned and was replaced by Deputy Mayor Claudio Burlando.

The guest of honor was the Government of the Bahamas, where Christopher Columbus first landed in the Americas on the island of Guanahani. Sculptures called "Obelisk" by Alessandro Matta and "Dolphin" by Bruno Elisei were displayed in the Bahamian hall, in homage to Columbus.^[3]

Participating Countries
Asia
China	South Korea	Japan	Israel
Africa
Cameroon	Egypt	Morocco	Senegal
Tunisia
Europe
Bulgaria	CIS	Croatia	France
Germany	Greece	Hungary	Czech Republic
Denmark	France	Italy	Malta
Monaco	Poland	Portugal	Romania
Spain	Switzerland	Vatican City
Americas
Argentina	Bahamas	Bolivia	Brazil
Chile	Colombia	Costa Rica	Cuba
Dominica	El Salvador	Ecuador	Guatemala
Haiti	Honduras	Mexico	Nicaragua
Panama	Paraguay	Peru	Uruguay
United States	Venezuela
Organizations
European Union

References

External links

• Official website of the BIE
• European Patent Office

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World exhibitions

Bureau International des Expositions (BIE)

Retroactively
recognized
expositions

• London 1851
• Paris 1855
• London 1862
• Paris 1867
• Vienna 1873
• Philadelphia 1876
• Paris 1878
• Melbourne 1880
• Barcelona 1888
• Paris 1889
• Chicago 1893
• Brussels 1897
• Paris 1900
• St. Louis 1904
• Liège 1905
• Milan 1906
• Brussels 1910
• Turin 1911
• Ghent 1913
• San Francisco 1915
• Barcelona 1929
• Seville 1929
• Chicago 1933

BIE-recognized
Universal
expositions

• Brussels 1935
• Paris 1937
• New York 1939–1940
• Port-au-Prince 1949
• Brussels 1958
• Seattle 1962
• Montreal 1967
• Osaka 1970
• Seville 1992
• Hannover 2000
• Aichi 2005
• Shanghai 2010
• Milan 2015
• Dubai 2020^†
• Osaka 2025
• Riyadh 2030

BIE-recognized
specialized
expositions

• Stockholm 1936
• Helsinki 1938
• Liège 1939
• Paris 1947
• Stockholm 1949
• Lyon 1949
• Lille 1951
• Jerusalem 1953
• Rome 1953
• Naples 1954
• Turin 1955
• Helsingborg 1955
• Beit Dagan 1956
• Berlin 1957
• Turin 1961
• Munich 1965
• San Antonio 1968
• Budapest 1971
• Spokane 1974
• Okinawa 1975
• Plovdiv 1981
• Knoxville 1982
• New Orleans 1984
• Plovdiv 1985
• Tsukuba 1985
• Vancouver 1986
• Brisbane 1988
• Plovdiv 1991
• Genoa 1992
• Taejŏn 1993
• Lisbon 1998
• Zaragoza 2008
• Yeosu 2012
• Astana 2017
• Buenos Aires 2023
• Belgrade 2027

BIE-recognized
horticultural
exhibitions (AIPH)

• Rotterdam 1960
• Paris 1969
• Amsterdam 1972
• Hamburg 1973
• Vienna 1974
• Montreal 1980
• Amsterdam 1982
• Munich 1983
• Liverpool 1984
• Osaka 1990
• Zoetermeer 1992
• Stuttgart 1993
• Kunming 1999
• Haarlemmermeer 2002
• Rostock 2003
• Chiang Mai 2006–2007
• Venlo 2012
• Antalya 2016
• Beijing 2019
• Almere 2022
• Doha 2023
• Yokohama 2027

Not BIE-
recognized

Africa	Freetown 1865 Cape Town 1877 Kimberley 1892–1893 Johannesburg 1936–1937
Asia	Calcutta 1883–1884 Hanoi 1902 Nanking 1910 Semarang 1914 Hangzhou 1929 Taihoku (Taipei) 1935 Nagoya 1937 Clark 1998 Shenyang 2006 Chiang Mai 2011–2012 Udon Thani 2026
Europe	London 1760 Dublin 1853 Manchester 1857 Porto 1865 Stockholm 1866 London 1871–1874 Lyon 1872 Vienna 1873 Amsterdam 1883 Liverpool 1886 London 1886 Copenhagen 1888 Glasgow 1888 Frankfurt 1891 Prague 1891 Lyon 1894 Oporto 1894 Berlin 1896 Stockholm 1897 Glasgow 1901 Cork 1902 London 1905 London 1906 Marseille 1906 Dublin 1907 London 1908 Zaragoza 1908 London 1910 Dresden 1911 London 1911 London 1912 Lyon 1914 Cologne 1914 London 1914 Kristiania 1914 Malmö 1914 London 1921 Marseille 1922 Gothenburg 1923 British Empire Exhibition 1924–1925 Antwerp 1930 Stockholm 1930 Paris 1931 Porto 1934 Glasgow 1938 Stockholm 1943
North America	New York City 1826–1897 Bryant Park, New York City 1853 Atlanta 1881 Louisville 1883–1887 New Orleans 1884 Atlanta 1887 San Francisco 1894 Atlanta 1895 Nashville 1897 Omaha 1898 Buffalo 1901 Charleston 1901–1902 Portland, Oregon 1905 Jamestown 1907 Seattle 1909 Knoxville 1913 San Diego 1915–1917 Bronx 1918 Philadelphia 1926 San Diego 1935–1936 Dallas 1936 Cleveland 1936–1937 Dallas 1937 San Francisco 1939–1940 Chicago 1940 New York City 1964–1965
Oceania	Melbourne 1866 Sydney 1870 Melbourne 1875 Brisbane 1876 Sydney 1879 Adelaide 1887 Melbourne 1888 Dunedin 1889 Christchurch 1906 Auckland 1913–1914 Dunedin 1925 Wellington 1939–1940
South America	Lima 1872 Santiago 1875 Quito 1909 Buenos Aires 1910 Rio de Janeiro 1922

^†Postponed to 2021 due to the COVID-19 pandemic •  World portal

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