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Inside Lisbon's vanishing fado houses
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Inside Lisbon's vanishing fado houses

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Wanderline Staff

August 25, 2026 · 1 min read

As rents rise, the small clubs that built Portugal's signature sound are closing one by one.

Maria dos Santos has sung in the same twenty-seat cellar for thirty years. Now the building has been sold, and she does not know where the music goes next...

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