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
Mariana Silva7 October, 1933
Mariana Silva was born in the parish of Santa Engrácia, in Lisbon, on October 7, 1933. Her artistic tendencies were revealed very early and, between 5 and 12 years old, she worked as a trapeze ...