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
Frederico de Brito15 September, 1894 - 24 March, 1977
Frederico de Brito, ou Britinho, - as he was known – was an outstanding poet and composer who created some of the most artistic and with rare beauty famous fado compositions.
