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
Ermelinda Vitória24 January, 1892
When she sings Ermelinda always wears her shawl. Her favourite poet Martinho D´Assunção was the only author who understood her emotional and simple dreams and wrote her dearest song "O Xaile" “(João Linhares Barbosa, in Guitarra de Portugal, October 26, 1929).
