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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
Armandinho11 October, 1891 - 21 December, 1946
As a Portuguese guitar player, he had a technique adapted to each fado singer he accompanied, creating a kind of dialogue which evidenced the special interpreting features of each singer and allowed him to play on equal foot with them. He thus managed to avoid diminishing the Portuguese guitar, a situation that became otherwise very common in the first decades of the twentieth century.
