2024-04-27 09:30:03
Riyadh designated to host the World Expo in 2030
Paris – The capital of Saudi Arabia, Riyadh, has been designated to host the 2030 Universal Expo, the Paris-based Bureau International des Expositions (BIE) announced on Tuesday.
Riyadh was well ahead of the city of Busan (Republic of Korea) and Rome in this election.
The capital of Saudi Arabia won 119 votes, compared to 29 for Busan and 17 for the Italian capital, easily two-thirds of the 165 votes required, according to the BIE results.
The Universal Exhibition is held every five years and lasts a maximum of six months. It allows the chosen country to “show itself to the world”, while being “a laboratory for architects”, estimated in April 2022 Dimitri Kerkentzes, secretary general of the BIE.
For example, the Eiffel Tower was built in Paris for the Universal Exhibition of 1889, as were the Atomium and the Space Needle, symbolic structures of Brussels and Seattle (United States), the were for those of 1958 and 1962.
The latest, in Dubai, recorded 24 million visitors. The 2025 event will take place in Osaka, Japan.
2024-04-27 09:30:03