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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
Marco Rodrigues19 September, 1982
Until the age of fifteen, Marco Rodrigues only knows that Fado is a musical genre and that its greatest Diva is Amália Rodrigues. Fate brings Fado into his life when he moves from the north of Portugal to Lisbon. And his whole life changes…