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
Ary dos Santos7 December, 1937 - 18 January, 1984
José Carlos Pereira Ary dos Santos became known to the general public as one of the most talented poets of his generation. He contributed to the renewal of Portuguese light music by way of his poems, which he considered his way of addressing the people – as being a poet means selecting the words that the people deserves to hear.
