An Expo Village is an accommodation center built for the

Universal Exposition A world's fair, also known as a universal exhibition, is a large global exhibition designed to showcase the achievements of nations. These exhibitions vary in character and are held in different parts of the world at a specific site for a perio ...

organized by BIE in the host city. Expo Villages are built to house all participating delegates, as well as officials. Expo Villages are similar to

Olympic Village An Olympic Village is a residential complex built or reassigned for the Olympic Games in or nearby the List of Olympic Games host cities, host city for the purpose of accommodating all of the delegations. Olympic Villages are usually located clos ...

s. For example, the Expo Village for EXPO Milan 2015, the home of the foreign delegates attending the Expo in

Milan Milan ( , , ; ) is a city in northern Italy, regional capital of Lombardy, the largest city in Italy by urban area and the List of cities in Italy, second-most-populous city proper in Italy after Rome. The city proper has a population of nea ...

Italy Italy, officially the Italian Republic, is a country in Southern Europe, Southern and Western Europe, Western Europe. It consists of Italian Peninsula, a peninsula that extends into the Mediterranean Sea, with the Alps on its northern land b ...

, located in the seven towers of

Cascina Merlata Cascina Merlata is a district ("quartiere") of Milan, Italy, part of the Zone 8 administrative division of the city. It is adjacent to the Expo 2015 exhibition site and borders the districts of Roserio, Gallaratese Gallaratese is a district ("q ...

. Since its official opening, which took place March 9, 2015, for ten months, Expo Village has hosted over 5,000 delegates (60% men and 40% women) from 128 different countries who stayed in the seven towers constituting the complex. Among them were 468 artists of the countries invited by Expo 2015 to perform at their "National Days".{{Cite book, title=Expo Village. Il passaggio da non-luogo a comunità. Expo Milano, last=, first=, publisher=Franco Angeli, year=2015, isbn=8891738824, location=Milan, Italy, pages=, via= The Milan Expo Village was managed by the Fondazione Collegio delle Università Milanesi, because of the expertise in temporary accommodation in international and multicultural environment.

* Expo Shanghai 2010 * Expo Milan 2015 * Expo Antalya 2016 * Expo Astana 2017 * Expo Dubai 2020

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