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"This is a tribute exhibition that presents 26 photographs of fado singers printed on wood and placed directly on the wall, along a specific route that passes through the following places: Rua do Capelão, Rua João do Outeiro, Beco de Jasmin, Largo da Severa, Rua da Guia, Largo do Terreirinho, Largo dos Olarias, Calçada do Monte, Travessa da Nazaré, ending at the Mouraria Sports Group where the Mouraria Fado School is located. The photographs compiled are based on the life story of each fado singer." - https://chmagazine.pt/retratos-do-fado-e-a-nova-exposicao-fotografica-de-camilla-watson-pelas-ruas-da-mouraria/
"Mouraria is, supposedly, where fado began. This exhibit is a journey through the borough beginning in the Rua de Capelão where the first well known fadista Maria Severa died in 1846. Along the way you will find photographs printed onto wood, and the walls, of fadistas past and present who have some affiliation with the neighbourhood. You will find a map of the route at the beginning in the Rua de Capelão. This was a collaborative project with families in Mouraria." - https://www.camillawatson.com/retratos-de-fado-a-tribute-to-mouraria
"Mouraria has Rua do Capelão as its symbol and matrix of Fado, and a guitar as its sign at the entrance to the neighbourhood. And Maria Severa as its symbolic and mythical resident. But that's not all.
Argentina Santos, now 89 years old, and Fernando Maurício, now deceased, were born in Mouraria and were called “The King”. Argentina settled in Alfama, in its Parreirinha, and Maurício became very involved with the fado “Na Igreja de Santo Estevão” (lyrics by Gabriel de Oliveira, music by Joaquim Campos, Fado Vitória), one of the two parishes of Alfama, although it would be unfair to tie the memory of such a great fado singer to the legacy of a single fado.
The rivalry has been going on for many years: Mouraria and Alfama dispute the origin of Fado, just as they dispute the title of the oldest neighbourhood in Lisbon.
And Mouraria now has, along the streets of the neighborhood and as its tribute, a true gallery of “portraits of Fado”. And there are The Queen and The King, Amália Rodrigues and Fernando Maurício, arm in arm at the front of a popular march; and Fernando Maurício, solo in a sketch in memory of the artist: “Fado was his neighborhood and Mouraria his home”; there is a sketch, from behind, of the mythical figure of Severa, digitally painted over a graphite sketch by João Pedro Pinto; and there are many more that can be discovered around every corner." - https://becodasbarrelas.blogspot.com/2013/06/retratos-do-fado-nas-ruas-da-mouraria.html
"This monument in homage to Mouraria as the birthplace of Fado is a marble block measuring approximately 1.5 metres in height, which features a carved Portuguese guitar. It was inaugurated on 13 June 2006 by the Mayor of Lisbon, at the intersection of Rua do Capelão and Rua da Mouraria, very close to the house where Severa lived." - https://informacoeseservicos.lisboa.pt/contactos/diretorio-da-cidade/mouraria-berco-do-fado
