Jardim Amália Rodrigues
Hilltop park honouring Portugal's fado queen, with a fountain lake and a Botero sculpture.
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This guide to the Jardim Amália Rodrigues in Lisbon follows the fado singer from a girl selling fruit on the city's quays in the 1930s to a voice that filled Carnegie Hall, the Hollywood Bowl and L'Olympia in sixty-eight countries. It traces how the garden came to bear her name, and the lake, fountain and Botero sculpture that now sit at one of Lisbon's highest points. A quiet, elevated spot worth pausing in before the city's viewpoints get crowded.
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