Private Night Tour with Dinner and Fado Show in Lisbon, Portugal
Lisbon is, without a doubt, a city that gives great pleasure to discover. Its neighborhoods and streets show its diversity. It is ancient, but also modern. Known as the city of Sete Colinas, Lisbon is baroque, Roman, Manueline, romantic, bohemian and literary. Lisbon is fado. It is, without a doubt, an amazing city. We will enter the old heart of Lisbon, Alfama, the historic district where fado was born, we will also find the Lisbon Cathedral, the São Jorge Castle and the fabulous views over the river and the city as the Miradouro da Senhora do Monte, all this experience at night and followed by a delicious dinner and fado show in a typical Alfama restaurant.
Fado has been declared an Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity since 2011.
Highlights:
The historic district Alfama
Fabulous views over the river and the city as the Miradouro da Senhora do Monte
Lisbon Cathedral - Cathedral of Lisbon Patriarchate
Medieval fortress - San Jorge Castle
Fantastic Fado Show
Flavor of Lisbon
Includes:
Driver(guide)
Private transportation by a/c vehicle
Pick-up and drop-off from airport or meeting point
Bottled water
WiFi on board
Dinner
Fado show
Not included:
Entrance to monuments
Boat tickets
Please note: Minimum age is 12 years old.
They were united by poverty and the struggle for survival. In this universe of poverty - smuggling, underground games, theft, prostitution - were the main engines of the economy. Taverns and brothels appear, places exclusively for men, women were here only for comfort. In such an atmosphere, folk songs and dances were performed. In the documentary evidence of that era, these establishments were called "Casas de Fado", where the woman who performed the fado was easily accessible. Then fado was not divided into song and dance. In such an environment, one of the first famous fado performers, Maria Severa, appeared. Documented as the first woman to "sing, play and dance fado". She was a prostitute from Mouraria who may have been born July 26, 1820 and died November 30, 1846. Also, like her mother, she became a prostitute at an early age, but because of her beauty and her gift for playing fado, she quickly became the mistress of Count Vimiosa. He often invited her to aristocratic salons, giving her the opportunity to perform in front of a noble audience. Thanks to her love affair with the aristocrat of the North, she introduced high society to the music of the streets, thus fado went beyond the boundaries of marginal poor neighborhoods. So fado began to be popular at social events, which gave a new round of development. After her death, she became a legend, books were written about her life, poems were dedicated to her, and even a film was made.