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A spectacular view from Castelo de Sao Jorge, a moated castle where peacocks roam and swans glide, its an oasis of serenity in this bustling neighborhood.
Portuguese perfection
Saudade, roughly translated as longing or nostalgia for the past, is at the heart of Portugal’s famed Fado music. As two or three guitar players gently pluck the strings, a fadista (female fado singer), purrs and wails, giving complex and heartfelt expression to songs of bittersweet remembrance, of love lost, of death. FULL STORY
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