Why Lisbon?

ACCESS TO EUROPE
Lisbon occupies a priviledged location allowing an easy access to over 500 millions European Citizens. The city offers a range of modern transportation infra-structures and logistics such as high-way and train complete nets, the harbours of Lisbon, Setúbal and Sines and the international airport ( only 10 minutes away from the centre of the city) with low cost connections to multiple European and transcontinental destinations.

ACCESS TO THE WORLD
Lisbon maintains strong commercial and cultural relations with the other seven countries that has Portuguese as their main language. By the size we can highlight three of them; Angola, Brazil and Mozambique. Lisbon is an ideal place for companies interested in investing or exporting into these emergent countries having 250 millions of potential consumers. Furthermore, Lisbon promotes historical trade relations with markets in Latin America, United States, Canada as well as with the Arabic and Maghreb regions.

HUMAN RESOURCES
Lisbon has qualified, flexible, creative and multilingual human resources that are considered as one of the most competitive in the European Union: the average cost per hour is about half of the one implemented in the European Union. City of Lisbon is the center of high level universities and investigators especifically in the sector of health being the exact choice for research and development centres and services.

CAPITAL
As a capital Lisbon gathers  all the fundamental decision making organisations and a range of businesses and developments. It has a modern network of technological and communicational infra-structures as well as a broad range of product and service suppliers of excellent quality.

BUSINESS ENVIRONMENT
The social stability, the active measures to support business, innovation, administrative simplification and the excellent level of security (Portugal is the 7th safest country in the World quoting the Global Peace Index) generate great conditions for the settlement and growth of business.

QUALITY OF LIFE
In Lisbon you can enjoy an unparalleled quality of life: mild weather, incomparable luminosity, hospitable people, diversified landscapes and original gastronomy with Mediterranean flavour. This is the European capital with the most hours of sun per year, golf fields and golden beaches only about 15 minutes from the city centre.

CITY OF TOURISM
Lisbon is a tourist city of excellence combining the priceless historical patrimony and the genuinely culture with the latest tendencies. It is one of the most wanted cities for congress venues and other corporate events as it fastens modern infra-structures of services together with leisure activities at highly competitive costs.

EVENTS
Lisbon is a modern city in constant activity and move – 24 hours per day, 365 days per year. Concerts, festivals, expositions, sport events and entertainment are a permanent reality.

CITY OF RIVER AND SEA
Lisbon has a far-reaching contact with the river and a privileged access to the Atlantic Ocean standing as a seaport for the huge leisure cruises and navigation ships. Lisbon as a capital belongs to the largest and the most exclusive economical zone where is situated also the European Agency for Nautical Security.
 

LINKS
www.visitlisboa.com
www.askmelisboa.com
www.strawberryworld-lisbon.com
www.city-discovery.com
www.metrolisboa.pt

«Financial Times selects Lisboa for "city of the future"

The city of Lisboa has for the first time made it onto the prestigious “European Cities & Regions of the Future 2012/13” list compiled by the Financial Times.

Included in two separate categories, the Portuguese capital was ranked 3rd in the “Cities of Southwest Europe” overall ranking and 2nd in the “Foreign Direct Investment Strategy Cities in Southwest Europe" ranking.

The prominent position awarded to Lisboa on this influential ranking highlights the city’s competitiveness in attracting talent, companies and investment which goes hand in hand with the capital's creative and entrepreneurial spirit.

"European Cities & Regions of the Future 2012/13" is compiled by fDi Magazine / Financial Times, one of the world’s leading organisations for information on foreign direct investment.»