After the fringe club concert we boarded a jetfoil for the portuguese colony of macau , where land was booked to open the festivities surrounding the macau book fair , a multicultural event sponsored by the instituto portugues do oriente .
As the 1994 european capital of culture and the host of the 1998 world expo ( for which santiago calatrava designed the soaring oriente train station ) , lisbon 's antique neighbourhoods got a facelift , while rundown areas around the port were completely revitalized .
