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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
Esmeralda Amoedo19 May, 1936
Ever since she was a small child Esmeralda felt the urge to sing. She would sit by the radio listening to fados. But her mother, a seamstress, didn’t want her to sing. However Esmeralda’s will was strong. The neighbours encouraged her and gave her a small shawl she would wear every afternoon to sing some of the fados she had learned in the radio.
