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
Cidália Moreira11 October, 1944
Cidália, possibly unaware of the theatrical effect her voice has, doesn’t wear fantasies. She tries to create a story: the story of fado that refuses to be unhappy at all costs.
