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Alfama - Lisboa - Portugal - Europe
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Lisbon, Jul 21 (EFE), (Camera: Nacho Ballesteros).- "It smells good, it smells like Lisbon", the famous Amália Rodrigues sang in one of her most famous fados. A hundred years after her birth and two decades after her death, Lisbon still smells of Amália, whose music can easily be remembered through emblematic places of the Portuguese capital.FOOTAGE OF LISBON.SOUNDBITES OF VICENTE RODRIGUES, PRESIDENT OF THE AMÁLIA FOUNDATION:"When visiting the house it is possible to get to know the kind of person Amália was. We know what she sang, the voice she had, the shows she gave around the world, but there is another, more personal part of her as a woman and the relationships she had with friends and family... A visit to the house, with specialized guides, allows us to get to know another side of Amália, the most personal part that wasn't known.""She was really a person who cultivated the sympathy of the Portuguese and who also adored the Portuguese, and that feeling lives among us."
Lisbon (Portugal), 18 July (EFE), (Camera: Paula Fernández).- Amália Rodrigues used to sell the friendly face of the Portuguese dictatorship and had to carry the label of the regime's singer. But what few people knew was that the Queen of Fado financed the anti-fascist resistance, which only came to light after her death.Considered the voice of Portugal and known in all corners of the world, Amália (1920-1999) remains a partly unknown figure a century after her birth and more than 20 years after her death.FOOTAGE OF THE AMALIA MURAL AND THE HOUSE-MUSEUM IN LISBON INCLUDES SOUNDBITES FROM AN INTERVIEW WITH MIGUEL CARVALHO.Translation:"Over the years I contacted many people who had directly or indirectly contacted Amália and discovered a completely mysterious figure. The same Amália with whom the regime flirted and who was used by the dictatorship, and who in certain cases allowed herself to be used, that same Amália had over several decades very often and with considerable financial contributions over time, provided precious help to families of political prisoners, to anti-fascist resistance and to various movements in opposition to Salazar. At the head is the Portuguese Communist Party.""I think Amália had a deep sense of humanity and knew that what people suffered, political prisoners... It was impossible for her not to know because in her house for decades there were these poets, singers, this intellectual aspect that was very connected to oppositionist sectors of the regime."
Lisbon (Portugal), Mar 24, EFE, (Camera: Cynthia de Benito).- Alfama, the tourist heart of Lisbon, divided between Airbnb and pensioners, is now a deserted neighborhood that only breaks the silence to make home orders to those few who can leave home during the coronavirus quarantine. FOOTAGE OF THE ALFAMA DISTRICT OF LISBON.
Election officials count ballots in Lisbon for the legislative elections where, after eight years of socialist government, the center-right opposition is the favourite. Final opinion polls published on Friday put the centre-right Democratic Alliance (AD) narrowly ahead of the Socialist Party (PS) but short of an outright parliamentary majority, which could make the far-right Chega the kingmaker for a coalition government. IMAGES
Pilgrims gather in Lisbon for a huge open-air Mass with Pope Francis for World Youth Day. The service will take place at the Parque Tejo on the outskirts of the Portuguese capital, with many people having slept overnight in the park, which was built for the occasion on a former landfill site. The weather is a concern with temperatures expected to soar to 41 degrees Celsius (106 degrees Fahrenheit). IMAGES
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