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
Raúl Ferrão25 October, 1889 - 30 April, 1953
In partnership with several composers and writers, such as Raul Portela and Frederico Valério, Fernando de Carvalho, José Galhardo and Alberto Barbosa, Raúl Ferrão composed music for some of the most commercially successful revistas presented in Lisbon.
