The Tarragona Trade-Fair and Congress Centre celebrates 5 years

The Tarragona Trade-Fair and Congress Centre celebrates its fifth anniversary. In September 1999, the Congreso de la Abogacia Catalana officially opened the congress centre. Since then, it has hosted a total of 43 congresses and more than 150 work sessions from different fields, mainly from the medical and pharmaceutical sectors. The 14,000m2 of space has hosted national congresses from various disciplines such as tourism, journalism, primary attention, periodontics, audioprothesis or maritime traffic. In 2004 this year, it will close with a celebration of 10 medium and large sized congresses, among which are the VIII Congresos de Comisiones Obreros (1,100 pax), Congresos de Sociedad Catalana de Matronas (800 pax) and the Congress de la Sociedad Española de Medicina Intensiva y Critica (2,000 pax). There are already the confirmation of various congresses for the year 2006 and 2007, such as the Symposium Internacional de Cardiología Isquémica, the Congreso de la Sociedad Catalana de Medicina Familiar, the Congreso de la Sociedad Española de Anatomía Patológica or the Congreso de la Sociedad Internacional de Balística. The centre is also preparing numerous candidancy to get congresses of more than 500 persons for the year 2008, 2009 and 2010.