The Best Live Music Experience You Can Have With Culture Trip

Authentic live musical performances can be an incredible insight into a destination, as you witness first hand how a culture has decided to express itself over the centuries. Join one of these immersive small-group Culture Trips and get ready for a live music experience like no other.

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Close up of the guitar of a man playing traditional Portuguese music called fado

Complete Portugal by Train

To come to Portugal and not experience some live music would be a touristic crime. Trendy jazz bars and epic Euro nightclubs aren’t hard to find in Porto and Lisbon, the country’s two major cities and the slices of bread that make up this eight-day Portuguese sandwich itinerary. We’ll embrace a more traditional form of music, though, on our first night in the capital, Lisbon. After arriving into the city via a scenic train ride and having an afternoon free to explore, we’ll reconvene for an evening of live fado music. This soulful form of folk music has been used to tell stories in Portugal for at least 200 hundred years. It’s a tradition specific to this country, and can still be seen performed in bars all over the major cities. It usually consists of up to four string instruments, but the music is characterised mostly by the tragedy, melancholy and mournful nature of the lyrics, performed soulfully by an expressive vocalist, either male or female. It’s a really special form of music to witness live, and a perfect introduction – drink in hand – to the magical city of Lisbon.

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Next available from 11th May 2024

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Trip highlights and details

STARTS AT

Porto, Portugal

ENDS AT

Lisbon, Portugal

DURATION

8

GROUP SIZE

16

PHYSICAL RATING

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STYLE

Discovery

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Culture Trip launched in 2011 with a simple yet passionate mission: to inspire people to go beyond their boundaries and experience what makes a place, its people and its culture special and meaningful — and this is still in our DNA today. We are proud that, for more than a decade, millions like you have trusted our award-winning recommendations by people who deeply understand what makes certain places and communities so special.

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