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The festive season of Christmas brings us closer, remembers the best of us and those we cherish, Family, Friends, Colleagues.

Our Fado Houses have solutions tailored to Group and One-to-One Dinners.

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On December 25, Café Luso suggests an allusive menu to make you feel the warm atmosphere of a fado house.

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Many know, others will get to know Francesco Zavattari.

A photography artist, perhaps an image wizard, who returns to Lisbon on 18th December.

This time he will use the lens poetry to capture the magic of Casa das Bonecas, an 1830 shop in Praça da Figueira that has resisted the modernization of toys.

That same night, Zavatti’s camera will seek the visual intimacy of a Fado House in what is the oldest establishment, Café Luso, from 1927.

He will seek to capture the load of emotions conveyed in each theme.

He pursues in his projects the deepest emotions of Life, as if it were “Graal”.

Anticipating two days to the official date, 27 November 2011 (elevation of Fado to Intangible Heritage of Humanity by UNESCO) the 8th edition took place on 25 December.

This year was held at Café Luso, where it has been celebrating since the 1st edition, and the event was extended to two other fado houses, Adega Machado and Clube de Fado.

Being a great reason for joy and pride, it is a conviviality among many artists, in line with the old gatherings.

This initiative once again received official support from the Fado Museum.

For the first time Florbela Espanca’s poetry in book and disc.

To interpret 18 poems by the poet, the editor Samuel Lopes chose 18 female voices from fado.

The recurring theme in Fado coincides with some of the themes that most touched Florbela Espanca: love, destiny, the condition of ‘being Portuguese’, the feminine, intimacy ”

Simone de Oliveira, Mísia, Joana Melo, Ana Lains, Kátia Guerreiro, Sandra Correia and Joana Amendoeira are some of the voices that interpret Florbela Espanca’s verses.

Fadista Carla Pires, in the image, a guest artist usually invited to Macega Winery, is one of the voices that immortalized the poetry that marked the tragic existence of this singular poet.

On November 11, discreetly, just as she sang, left the fado singer Teresa Tarouca.

She also had the merit of being the first fado singer to interpret Fernando Pessoa’s poems.

In her musical choices, Teresa Tarouca expressed special appreciation for Alfredo Marceneiro, João Ferreira-Rosa, Pedro Homem de Mello and, from the most recent authors, Tiago Torres da Silva.

She was also known for the sensitive melancholy with which she interpreted the darkest themes.