Amália House-Museum

Amália Rodrigues House-Museum

The Amália Rodrigues House-Museum is the house on Rua de São Bento where the fado singer lived for more than four decades. Amália bought it in 1955, made it her home for the rest of her life and died here on 6 October 1999; by her express wish in her will, the Amália Rodrigues Foundation was created that same year, and it opened the house to the public on 23 July 2001. The building predates the 1755 earthquake and is lined with dados of blue 17th- and 18th-century tiles. The visit, always guided, takes in the drawing room, the bedroom of Amália and her husband, César Seabra, the inner staircase and the garden. Along the way are the portraits painted by Eduardo Malta, Maluda, Pinto Coelho, Pedro Leitão and Jacinto Luís, the Portuguese guitars and the piano, the decorations, some seventy stage dresses, many made by her dressmaker, Ilda Aleixo, more than two hundred pairs of shoes, and the jewellery with long, sparkling earrings she chose to be seen from the back row of the audience. Visits last about forty minutes, in Portuguese, English or French, and booking ahead is advisable.

Located at: Fundação Amália Rodrigues
Address: Rua de São Bento, 193, 1250-219 Lisboa
Opening hours: Tuesday to Sunday 10:00-18:00, guided tours only (the last starts at 17:20; closed on Mondays)
Phone: +351 213 971 896
Coordinates: 38.7153959, -9.1546143
Buses: 706, 727, 773, 713, 720, 709
Tram: 28E, 24E
Metro: Rato (Yellow)
Opened: 2001 (25 years)