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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
Vânia Duarte13 October, 1984
Born in Benavente, in 1984, Vânia Duarte took her first steps as a fado singer at the age of 12, alongside musician Carlos Garcia and fado singer Eulália Duarte. Music, and Fado in parti...