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Lisbon: Alfama Tour and Live Fado with Traditional Dinner

4.4  / 5630 reviews
Activity provider:Lisbon Destination Tours
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Guided tour

Lisbon: Alfama Tour and Live Fado with Traditional Dinner

Activity provider:Lisbon Destination Tours
4.4  / 5630 reviews

From $54.33 per person

Hear traditional Fado music on a walking tour of Lisbon's Alfama district where the genre was born. Experience the charm of the capital's oldest neighborhood after dinner. Then, go to a Fado house and get lost in the mournful mood of the music.

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Duration 4 hours
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Skip the line through a separate entrance
Live tour guide
English, Spanish

Experience

Highlights
  • Listen to traditional Fado music at an atmospheric Fado house
  • Enjoy a Portuguese dinner
  • Explore Lisbon's oldest neighborhood on a walking tour of Alfama
Full description
Explore Lisbon's Alfama district, local cuisine, and the UNESCO-listed musical genre of Fado on this guided walking tour. Savor a traditional Portuguese dinner in the Alfama area, walk through the winding cobblestone streets of Mouraria, then head to a Fado house to attend a concert. Start your Fado tour of Lisbon with a typical dinner in the Alfama district. Find out about the local habits and cuisine in the city's oldest district, where fado was born in the early 19th century. Then, wander down the alleys of the old part of town on a walking tour through Mouraria and Alfama (1 hour approximately). End at a traditional Fado house and listen to the mournful melodies of Fado, a quintessentially Portuguese genre produced by a Portuguese guitar and characterized by heartfelt lyrics. Lose yourself in the atmosphere and mood of the music. Fado was inscribed by UNESCO on the Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity in November 2011.
Includes
  • Typical dinner
  • Local guide
  • Walking tour
  • Dinner set menu (this is a general menu but can change depending on the day): Couvert: bread, chorizo and olives; Main dish: Grilled chicken or Mixed meat or Cod fish with cream or Octupus rice; Dessert: desert of the day; Drinks: water and glass wine or beer or soft drink.
  • Fado live music
Not suitable for
  • People with mobility impairments

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Meeting point

Meet at the reception of Lisbon Destination Hostel, Rossio Train Station. Inside the station, go to the 2nd floor. The hostel is in front of the train ticket office.

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Important information

What to bring

  • Comfortable shoes

Know before you go

  • There is a considerable amount of walking is involved on this tour and it is not recommended for those with reduced mobility

Customer reviews

Overall rating

4.4 /5

based on 630 reviews

Review summary

  • Guide
    4.6/5
  • Value for money
    4.3/5
  • Service
    4.4/5
  • Organization
    4.4/5

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Cora – United StatesNovember 14, 2023 – Verified booking
Our guide, Miguel was fantastic - very knowledgeable, helpful, funny and kind. The walking tour was great with lovely view points along the way. He did a great job explaining the possible origins of Fado music. The food was great. The Fado music was quite nice too, in fact I wish they sang more songs in each set.
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Erich – AustriaNovember 11, 2023 – Verified booking
Der Guide war sehr versiert, gab interessante Einblicke in die Stadt. Der Inhalt der Führung top. Für ältere Menschen war der "Rundgang" mit dem steilen Anstieg allerdings (fast zu) mühsam; eine Frau konnte deshalb nur per Auto voraus zum Essen gebracht werden. Nach dem Essen gab es keinen Taxistand in der Nähe für die Heimfahrt, auch per Telefon war der Taxiruf selbst für den heimischen Guide mühsam.
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Aaron – MalaysiaNovember 1, 2023 – Verified booking
The best part of this tour was meeting the other participants. 😊 We arrived 10 minutes late so the walking tour had unfortunately left. We took an Uber to the restaurant (Alfalma Grill) with two other wonderful participants, who had some difficulty finding the location of the meeting point themselves. The fado singing started early around 7:50pm, however the other participants who had joined the walking tour only arrived around 8:15pm. It was a good experience overall. One of the singer attempted to sell us his CD but was completely polite about it. The traditional dinner had choices that we could pick and they came with big helpings. The walk back after the show was unexceptional. We took a detour by ourselves without the group before heading to our hotel.
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