Fado, which means destiny or fate, has a feeling the Portuguese call “saudade,” a melancholy emotion that roughly means a nostalgic longing, a certain ineffable yearning.

To experience fado, the mournful folk music born of Lisbon’s oldest neighbourhoods, is to tap into centuries of history and bohemia. With a new state-of-the-art exhibition celebrating fado’s ...

While fado has become one of Lisbon’s favorite late-night tourist traps, I can still find funky bars–without the high prices and big-bus tour groups–that feel very local.

Fado, which roughly translates to "fate" or "destiny," has been the signature sound of Lisbon (and Portugal) since the early part of the 1800s. It tells the story of the country's people through ...

Fado is the folk music of Lisbon's rustic neighborhoods. Since the mid-1800s, it's been the Lisbon blues - mournfully beautiful and haunting ballads about lost sailors, broken hearts, and ...

The unique sound of Fado is part of Lisbon’s DNA, so embedded in society that it is included on UNESCO’s list of World Intangible Cultural Heritage. Born in the streets, houses and on the ...

While fado has become one of Lisbon’s favorite late-night tourist traps, I can still find funky bars–without the high prices and big-bus tour groups–that feel very local.

Fado is a Portuguese style of music that weds sumptuously plaintive melodies to poetic lyrics about love, loss, and the vicissitudes of fate.

I recently took a quick trip to Lisbon with my sister — and unlike those early explorers, our return was guaranteed — and we managed in four nights to visit four fado clubs. By day, we toured ...

Lisbon's seafaring past and its earthquake-prone location have provided fado (meaning fate) with the sorrowful themes of despair, loss, betrayal, jealousy and unrequited love.

Portugal's capital city of Lisbon feels to me like Europe's San Francisco-- it has rattling trolleys, a famous suspension bridge, a heritage dominated by a horrific earthquake, and lots of fog ...