Digital Sound Archive
Listen to historic moments online.
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
Max20 January, 1918 - 29 May, 1980
Author of great hits, such as Pomba Branca, Pomba Branca and Porto Santo, among others, Max also distinguished himself through his interpretation of fados with a very particular, even unmistakable, expression, singing fados from Lisbon and Coimbra.
