A symbol of identity, Fado music is widely sung in Lisbon and represents a distinctly Portuguese multicultural synthesis of Afro-Brazilian music, local genres of song and dance, rural music, and urban ...

At any time of year, Lisbon outshines the rest, and it will color you charmed. For the rest of your life, you'll recall the wine, seafood, pastries, music, tiling, and—we'll stop there ...

Want to spend the perfect 4 days in Lisbon? This guest guide by Hannah of That Adventurer has you covered, and I’ve added editor’s notes (in orange boxes) with my latest tips from my own recent trip!

“For people who don’t know anything about this kind of music, you can consider fado to be the Portuguese blues. It is music based in the feelings of life. “Like the blues, we sing about ...

If you picked Lisbon for your holidays ... It's a mournful form of music based around the notion of longing – in fact, they say fado is a window into the... From Classical art to Modernism ...