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Fado Route
Meet fado in Lisbon.
Fado is meant to be felt,
not understood,
or explained.
not understood,
or explained.
- Amália Rodrigues
An interactive museum to see, hear and feel Fado - Cultural Heritage of Humanity. Discover centuries of history and personalities that still reinvent and keep this heritage alive today. Visit us.
Get to know who sings, who plays and the history that unites all of us.
Personality of the Week
Marco Oliveira24 January, 1988

Marco Oliveira was born on January 24, 1988, in Lisbon. Fado has always been heard and sung in his father's house and, at just 9 years old, Marco Oliveira accompanied his parents for the first time t...