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
Basilissa dos Santos13 July, 1917 - 11 December, 2008

Basilissa dos Santos was born on July 13, 1917 in Beco do Garcês, parish of S. Miguel, in Alfama and was baptized in the Church of Santo Estêvão. She grew up in the Alfama neighbor...